High Trails Outdoor Education Center

02/08/2025

We had an incredible day! Thanks for coming Howbert 🏔️

09/30/2024

03/27/2024

Sanborn Western Camps is an outdoor adventure residential camp in Colorado. Sanborn provides a unique opportunity to benefit from quality time spent in the natural world as a teacher, mentor, and friend to kids from all over the world. We give kids the opportunity to grow as young men and women whi...

04/19/2023

Students from Chipeta and Trailblazer had a WONDERful time at our interbarn this week!
We love getting to experience the natural world through interactive and explorative learning.
Love & wonder to all! 🧡✨🏔️

04/14/2023

What a wonderful week at camp in the wilderness of wonder! We were so happy to have Nederland Middle School’s 6th & 7th graders with us for a full, five day program.
We ran double all days this week, which includes an awesome mill demonstration for our Woodsfolk curriculum. We love educating the next generation on conservation and responsible use of our resources!
Love & Wonder for All 🧡✨🏔

04/08/2023

As we all know, after 75 years, this place is written into many of our life stories. For some, those stories fill pages; for others, whole chapters; and for some, it’s the whole book.

After adding a chapter to the story over the past two years as Director of High Trails Outdoor Education Center, Kody Maynard is transitioning at the end of the 2023 spring season to the next chapter in his story. We are grateful for the myriad ways that he has touched the HTOEC program, through new relationships, new business practices and new professional trainings. He has continued the legacy of previous directors by growing the program and committing himself to cultivating the same fantastic HTOEC experience for students from across the state who attend our fall and spring programs. Thank you Kody!

We are now starting to write the next chapter for HTOEC by hiring a new director. Please share with anyone you think might be interested and click on the link below. https://www.coec.info/htoec-director-job-837592.html

04/08/2023

A few days at High Trails flies by. We use every moment to create an experience for each student, counselor, and teacher that sticks to your gut for long after the week is over. As participants explore the diversity and beauty of our natural surroundings at High Trails, the web of interrelationships...

03/29/2023

Thanks to all of our friends from Village East for joining us for our first three day program of the Spring 2023 season!
Village East came to camp for a dozen years up until 2003 and we were so happy to welcome them back this spring!
Love & Wonder to All 🧡✨🏔

03/25/2023

Our staff have been working hard in the field all week to prepare for students this spring! We can’t wait to welcome out first group on Monday! Love & Wonder to All! 🧡✨🏔️

03/16/2023

The Spring 2023 season has arrived! We are excited to have a fabulous team ready for a fantastic few months of programming in the great outdoors.
We will welcome 20 schools from across Colorado, and over 1000 students up to camp and into the wilderness of wonder!
Love & Wonder to All! 🧡✨🏔

02/22/2023

The HTOEC leadership team is ecstatic to be attending the 2023 American Camp Association Conference in Orlando this week with so many other fabulous camp professionals!

02/20/2023