Join the original Wizards Academy! Since 2009, our esteemed professors have guided students to uncover the ancient magicks hidden in nature. Step inside the storied halls of our School of Magic, where the greatest Wizards of the Realms gather to share knowledge. Create your wizard character and begin your training. Connect with the mystical powers of the wilderness as you embark on fantastic quests, uncover runic riddles, and befriend fellow Wizards-in-Training.
Wizards Academy Camp: Join Our School of Magic!
Our expert Trackers Guides lead immersive camps rooted in storytelling, role-playing, and hands-on outdoor skills. Whether you're crafting potions, learning magical botany, or solving ancient riddles, each quest helps you build confidence, friendship, and wonder through nature and imagination.
Choose Your Wizard Adventure
Each Wizards Academy camp offers unique magical quests and mystical lore. Choose your camp, choose your adventure:
Grades 2–3 School of Magic: Spells, Wands & Potions Discover the secrets of wizardry! Create potions, decipher ancient runes, and practice wand magic. Study magical botany, track mythical beasts, and use your growing powers to solve mysteries and defend the Realms.
Grades 4–5 Wizard's Academy: Spells, Wands & Potions Advance your wizard training! Master wandwork, magical defense, potion-making, and ancient runes. Uncover forgotten lore, face magical challenges, and join your fellow wizards on daring quests where your choices shape the story.
What You Do
Every day in Wizards Academy blends imaginative play with outdoor skills and magical making. All camps include:
- Create a unique Wizard character with their own story and magical strengths
- Craft potions, wands, spellbooks, and other enchanted items
- Learn magical botany using real plants and nature lore
- Track mythical beasts and protect magical lands from dark forces
- Decipher runes, cast spells, and duel with foam wands
- Explore magical realms through immersive outdoor quests
- Play wizard games that foster cooperation, creativity, and quick thinking
- Forge friendships and grow confidence through collaborative storytelling
Check-in at Camp Herms
1100 James Place, El Cerrito. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day's adventure.
Where the day happens
Basecamps are in-class camps held at our convenient drop-off locations, where kids learn crafts, skills, and games.
Week 2 (June 14–18)
El Cerrito camps check in at our alternate site that week, the Unitarian Church of Berkeley in Kensington, near Camp Herms.
Check-in at Camp Herms
1100 James Place, El Cerrito. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day's adventure.
Where the day happens
El Cerrito Adventure usually remains onsite at Camp Herms, a private nature park in the East Bay hills. When they travel, buses and vans are driven by trained drivers. Camp Herms features woods to explore, forest for archery and stealth games, and an indoor gathering hall.
Week 2 (June 14–18)
El Cerrito camps check in at our alternate site that week, the Unitarian Church of Berkeley in Kensington, near Camp Herms.
Check-in at 5000 Clarewood Dr
5000 Clarewood Dr, Oakland. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team gathers for the day.
Where the day happens
Basecamps are in-class camps held at our convenient drop-off locations, where kids learn crafts, skills, and games.
Check-in at 5000 Clarewood Dr
5000 Clarewood Dr, Oakland. A Guide checks your student in by name and the team 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 team ready for a fun adventure.
Where the bus goes
We head out to local nature parks and Camp Herms in El Cerrito, a wild site where we have private access.
Real skills. Real adventure. Real friends.
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Questions? Call (510) 575-9444 or email hello@trackersearth.com.