Join the Rangers Guild! Adventure with your team as you track animals, build shelters, make fire, and loose arrows on the archery range. Play epic games of forest stealth to master camouflage and learn the essential survival skills to thrive outdoors. Each day brings new challenges—and new stories of courage, connection, and camaraderie.
Rangers Camp: Archery & Wilderness Survival!
Our expert Trackers Guides lead action-filled camps rooted in ancient skills of the wild. Whether you're lighting a fire with flint and steel, crafting your first shelter, or drawing a bow in the forest, Rangers Camp challenges you to build self-reliance, connect with nature, and grow through teamwork, adventure, and stewardship.
Choose Your Camp
Each Rangers camp explores a unique path—blending wilderness survival, forest craft, archery, and stealth games. Choose your camp, choose your adventure:
Rangers Adventure: Stealth, Archery & Wilderness Survival Move silently with your Rangers Team, blending into the forest. Practice archery, track wildlife, and build survival skills. Play epic stealth games and master the art of camouflage.
Rangers Recon: Forts, Archery & Capture the Flag Prepare your Forest Fort for stealth missions. Train in archery with safe foam arrows while playing Capture the Flag. Combine epic outdoor games with real bushcraft and tracking skills.
What You Do
Train with your team, gain real outdoor skills, and take on the challenges of the wild. Every Rangers Camp includes:
- Build survival shelters from natural and modern materials
- With bow and arrow, hone your archery skills at our private range
- Track and trail signs of wildlife in forest and field
- Make fire using matches, ferro rods, and (for older campers) friction kits
- Play team games for stealth and awareness with foam-tipped arrows
- Carve simple tools and crafts using safe woodcarving techniques
- Learn leadership by supporting your team and mentoring others
- Take part in epic scenarios and immersive outdoor adventures
Check-in at Camp Herms
1100 James Place, El Cerrito. A Guide checks your student in by name and the crew gathers for the day's adventure.
Where the day happens
El Cerrito camps stay at Camp Herms all day. It is a wild site in the East Bay hills where Trackers has private access, with woods to explore, room for archery and stealth games, and an indoor gathering hall close by.
Check-in at Bushrod Park
Bushrod Park, Oakland. A Guide checks your student in by name and the crew gathers for the day's adventure.
The ride
Trained Trackers drivers, Guides on board. Songs are sung and stories are told on the way, and the Guides get the crew ready for a fun adventure.
Where the bus goes
We head out to Camp Herms in El Cerrito, a wild site where we have private access, for a full day in the woods.