The Nature Place

UPDATES: Hiring for Summer 2023!

Hiring:

Are you a backpacker, hiker, or climber that wants to spend your summer in the outdoors, mastering your leadership skills and connecting youth to the natural world?  We are looking for one or two skilled Trip Leaders to run our onsite overnights experiences and guide our offsite backpacking trips. We look for people who can be themselves in an equitable, diverse, and supportive community.

We are not your typical summer camp. Our mission is to connect campers and staff to themselves, others, and nature. Grow and develop yourself for the future. Our experience helps to prepare you for whatever your future holds while looking darn good on a resume. Mentor the next generation and feel good knowing you are making a difference. Best of all, we want you to be you! When you are here, you’re safe to be your true self.

If you'd like more information about opportunities at The Nature Place, call or visit our website to read more and/or apply!

The Nature Place is looking for experiential education facilitators that want to lead campers and staff on our high and low challenge course. Your days will involve supervising other staff, belaying, and running groups through different elements. You will be providing life-changing experiences. We seek those who love mentoring children and thrive in an equitable, diverse, and supportive community. This role offers an experience for those seeking a future in the outdoor adventure industry. 

If you'd like more information about opportunities at The Nature Place, call or visit our website to read more and/or apply!

The Nature Place is not your typical camp. We place a Head Counselor in each group to lead, mentor, and inspire. We look for those who already have experience working with children. Most of our Head counselors are Teachers or those working on an advanced degree. Our head counselors work as a team with two counselors and 16 to 18 campers. We are looking for those who have good character, integrity, and adaptability with enthusiasm and a sense of humor.  

We are not your typical summer camp. Our mission is to connect campers and staff to themselves, others, and nature. Grow and develop yourself for the future. Our experience helps to prepare you for whatever your future holds while looking darn good on a resume. Mentor the next generation and feel good knowing you are making a difference. Best of all, we want you to be you! When you are here, you’re safe to be your true self.

If you'd like more information about opportunities at The Nature Place, call or visit our website to read more and/or apply!

The Nature Place is not your typical camp. If you are someone who is 18 or over, and looking to build experience working with children, as well as your leadership, communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills, then this position is for you. With the role model you also through you can be, while mentoring campers and helping them develop life skills and friendships. Our counselors’ are also ones who leave that indelible and positive mark in the life of our campers.

We are not your typical summer camp. Our mission is to connect campers and staff alike to themselves, to others, and to nature. Grow and develop yourself for the future. Our experience helps to prepare you for whatever your future holds while looking darn good on a resume. Mentor the next generation and feel good knowing you are making a difference. Best of all, we ant you to be you! When you are here, you’re safe to be your true self.

If you'd like more information about any of the opportunities at The Nature Place, call or visit our website to read more and/or apply!

The Nature Place Day Camp is looking for a dynamic person to lead games program which is focused on cooperative, non-competitive, and initiative games.

Our Games program is filled with fun, physical activities that emphasize inclusion and enhance coordination, confidence, and self-esteem. By removing the pressure of winning or losing, and by taking away the fear of looking ‘not good enough’ in front of peers, campers can actually engage fully in an activity, have fun doing so, and feel good about themselves in the process. Instead of playing team sports, we play games like ‘Octopus tag’, learn circus skills like walking a slack-line or plate-spinning, and participate in Group Initiatives that require campers to assess a challenge together, come up with possible solutions, and then accomplish a goal as a group.

We are not your typical summer camp. Our mission is to connect campers and staff alike to themselves, to others, and to nature. Grow and develop yourself for the future. Our experience helps to prepare you for whatever your future holds while looking darn good on a resume. Mentor the next generation and feel good knowing you are making a difference. Best of all, we ant you to be you! When you are here, you’re safe to be your true self.

If you'd like more information about any of the opportunities at The Nature Place, call or visit our website to read more and/or apply!

Additional Information About The Nature Place

The Nature Place Day Camp is an ACA-accredited, nature-oriented and non-competitive summer camp for kids ages 4-16, located on 200 acres of fields, forests, farmland, gardens, ponds, and streams, in Rockland County, NY.

Our Mission: To provide an inclusive and representative space where children can find their place in nature, embrace their unique selves, grow relationships and new life skills, build resilience, and be inspired throughout.