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Winter & Fall Break Camps

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📅Nov 23–25 & Dec 21–Jan 5, 2026
📍Camp Options in El Cerrito & N Oakland

Grades K-12 Join our award-winning camps offering fantastic activities with outdoor adventure, hands-on crafts, and holiday themes. Connect friends while learning with expert Teachers and Guides. Choose from winter wilderness survival, animal tracking, wizards, secret agents, nature pocket monster nature games, role-playing games, archery, and much more!

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Campers singing carols in the musical waffle camp

Here We Go A Waffling

Camper inside a debris hut survival shelter

Survival Shelters

Campers practicing archery with Trackers Guides

Archery Range

Realms role-players adventuring in the December forest

Realms of the North

Holiday celebration at Trackers winter camp

Holiday Cheer

Forest Adventures

Campers gathered around a winter bonfire

Bonfires & Cocoa

Winter Camp

Woodworking Elves

Young campers crafting handmade holiday gifts

Elves Workshop

Campers exploring the winter forest at Trackers Winter Break Camp

Winter Break at Trackers

Junior forest ninjas training on the trail

Ninja Missions

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Winter Break 2026

Award-Winning Camps

Awards and badges for Trackers Camps

Award-winning camps. Discover why so many parents choose Trackers for real skills & adventure.

When Nov 23–25 & Dec 21–Jan 5
Single & Multi-Day Camps

Where El Cerrito & North Oakland
Two East Bay Sites

Grades Camps for Grades K–12
Leader-in-Training for 9–12

Trusted by our families for over 20 years. Leaders in outdoor and craft education since 2004. Turn days off school into real skills & adventure: archery, blacksmithing, wilderness survival, even a waffle feast.

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Best Camps in the Known Universe

Trackers does more in a winter day of camp than most camps do all season!

Safety and quality training for children

Safety & Quality

Our priority: care for your child. Trackers sets the standard of safety for outdoor camps in the Bay and beyond.

Real outdoor skills like archery and fire making

Real Skills

Real skills such as archery, fishing, survival, role-playing and more. Choose your camp and choose your adventure.

Campers exploring the winter forest together

Caring Connection

Campers come for adventure and return for belonging, building independence in nature with old & new friends.

Expert Educators

Experienced instructors teach authentic skills, chosen through intensive interviews and background checks.

How Winter Camps Work

Choose Basecamp (onsite classes) or Transport (offsite adventures).
Customize your camp hours with affordable Pre & After Camp.

Basecamp

Onsite at your drop-off location. Build skills in archery, craft, woodworking, role-playing games & more.

Drop-off: 9:30 – 10:00 AM Class Time: 9:45 AM Pick-Up: 2:15 – 2:30 PM

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Adventure

Neighborhood drop-off sites learning outdoor adventure skills in the forests, fields & waters.

Drop-off: 9:15 – 9:30 AM Shuttle + Skills: 9:30 AM Pick-Up: 2:30 – 2:45 PM

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Extended camp hours with crafts, skills, and games

Custom Hours

Customize your camp hours with affordable Pre-Camp and After-Camp featuring crafts, skills & games.

Pre-Camp from 8:00 AM After-Camp until 5:00 PM Grades K–5

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2 Convenient Locations

Choose from two East Bay neighborhood sites.

El Cerrito — Camp Herms Basecamp on-site in the El Cerrito hills. North Oakland — Bushrod Park Neighborhood hub at Bushrod Park.

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