Outdoor Learning

During fall and spring terms, students visit the Mitchell Point Retreat or other locations around the Gorge. Mitchell Point is also home to fall and spring electives, such as tree fort design and reverse engineering! The campus is located on 8 beautiful acres overlooking the Columbia River and surrounded by National Forest. In addition to guided activities of ecological exploration, building projects, forest gardening, and adventure games, students have access to a large spring-fed fresh water pond for swimming, an 18 hole disc golf course, a woodworking shop, a vegetable garden, a commercial-like kitchen, an art barn, private hiking trails, spring-fed drinking water, and a ropes course complete with tree forts and zip lines. New School students, past and present, have built many of the ropes course structures with adult supervision! Students also visit field trip locations around the Gorge on Friday afternoons.