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Mountains · 1 Western Way, Gunnison, CO 81231
Western Colorado University is a public university in Gunnison, Colorado, in the Rocky Mountains. Its summer youth programs (Junior Mountaineer Camps) are run through its campus.
Part STEAM, part friendly competition: campers join college-league teams to take on engineering challenges like building toothpick bridges, designing towers, and cracking brain teasers — mixed with outdoor play, team challenges, and swimming or climbing days.
Part STEAM, part friendly competition: campers join college-league teams to take on engineering challenges like building toothpick bridges, designing towers, and cracking brain teasers — mixed with outdoor play, team challenges, and swimming or climbing days.
Part STEAM, part friendly competition: campers join college-league teams to take on engineering challenges like building toothpick bridges, designing towers, and cracking brain teasers — mixed with outdoor play, team challenges, and swimming or climbing days.
A week that blends nature-based STEAM learning with real outdoor recreation: campers stand-up paddleboard, whitewater raft, rock climb, and mountain bike around the Gunnison Valley, with nature-inspired art and science woven in.
Young builders use LEGO bricks to solve problems with the engineering design process — building everything from rainbows and catapults to simple machines and rubber band-powered cars.
Young builders use LEGO bricks to solve problems with the engineering design process — building everything from rainbows and catapults to simple machines and rubber band-powered cars.
Campers take apart toys and small machines to figure out how they work, brainstorm ways to improve them, and put everything back together — a hands-on week of disassembly, analysis, and reassembly.
Campers hike hut to hut through Colorado's high-alpine landscapes north of Leadville, staying in cozy cabins and huts of the 10th Mountain Division Hut System — each with a kitchen, toilets, and beds with mattresses — while building outdoor and teamwork skills.
A first step into overnight adventure: two days of day camp to build skills and friendships, then a three-day, two-night camping trip. Campers mountain bike, hike, stand-up paddleboard, try intro rock climbing, raft, and practice orienteering and Leave No Trace with trained instructors.
Campers step into the roles of botanists, conservationists, and ecologists — exploring native wildflowers, learning Leave No Trace principles, and practicing environmental stewardship outdoors.
Campers step into the roles of botanists, conservationists, and ecologists — exploring native wildflowers, learning Leave No Trace principles, and practicing environmental stewardship outdoors.
Campers step into the roles of botanists, conservationists, and ecologists — exploring native wildflowers, learning Leave No Trace principles, and practicing environmental stewardship outdoors.
Campers base out of the Lost Wonder Hut, a backcountry lodge in the Sawatch Mountains between Gunnison and Salida — with a full kitchen and cozy beds — spending their days exploring Colorado's natural landscapes and building outdoor and teamwork skills with new friends.
Campers design and build vintage-style arcade games out of cardboard using the engineering design process, then wire them up with Makey Makey kits to add sound, lights, and more.
Young inventors use Makey Makey kits to connect everyday objects to computer keys — from playing a piano made of bananas to creating a stomp switch.
Young inventors use Makey Makey kits to connect everyday objects to computer keys — from playing a piano made of bananas to creating a stomp switch.
A weeklong off-site camping expedition at Colorado National Monument and on the Colorado River: five days of outdoor exploration with rock climbing, hiking, rafting, and more, in a small group led by experienced educators.
Future geologists dig into rocks, minerals, and mining — even growing their own moon rocks — in a hands-on week of earth science mixed with outdoor play and team challenges.
Future geologists dig into rocks, minerals, and mining — even growing their own moon rocks — in a hands-on week of earth science mixed with outdoor play and team challenges.
Future geologists dig into rocks, minerals, and mining — even growing their own moon rocks — in a hands-on week of earth science mixed with outdoor play and team challenges.
A weeklong off-site camping expedition in Crested Butte: campers summit Mount Crested Butte, stand-up paddleboard the Slate River, hike among the wildflowers, and try plein air art during five days of outdoor exploration.
Minecraft-based engineering with a team-building focus: campers take on small-group challenges and competitions built around communication, collaboration, and creative problem-solving.
A week of hero training: campers design shields, build super hideouts (forts), take on the climbing wall, and learn about nutrient-rich foods.
A week of hero training: campers design shields, build super hideouts (forts), take on the climbing wall, and learn about nutrient-rich foods.
Hands-on coding: campers use block-based programming languages like Scratch and work with KaiBots — small educational robots — to design and solve coding challenges.
Hands-on coding: campers use block-based programming languages like Scratch and work with KaiBots — small educational robots — to design and solve coding challenges.
Hands-on coding: campers use block-based programming languages like Scratch and work with KaiBots — small educational robots — to design and solve coding challenges.
A three-day encore to close out the season, bringing back camper and staff favorites from Summer 2026.
A three-day encore to close out the season, bringing back camper and staff favorites from Summer 2026.
1 Western Way, Gunnison, CO 81231
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Great Liberal Arts University in the middle of the mountains! Affordable and faculty that care about your education.
View on Google ↗Loved the Fieldhouse gym! Reasonably priced, friendly knowledgeable staff with terrific equipment and an awesome climbing wall!
View on Google ↗Small class sizes, kind and knowledgeable professors, beautiful and safe location.
View on Google ↗The football "undefeated" team. Don't know how to take a loss. Well, let's say the Parents don't know how to take a loss. So good luck with who plays against them! Sore losers when they don't win. Yell ugly things and profanity at the team players on the field they play against. They say no megaphones 📣 yet home bring theirs. Feel free to bring yours so when they call your kids ugly things on the field.
View on Google ↗Great school; small class sizes and outstanding professors, who are accessible. Thanks to the substantial education I received, I was able to graduate in four years and go on to earn 2 graduate degrees through a fellowship awarded by a major state university. If you like the action of a big city, go elsewhere. If you like the outdoors, a great education, and exceptional extra curricular opportunities, go to Western. My son also graduated from Western.
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