Locations
Main Campus
The Hood River New School campus is centrally located in Hood River, Oregon. Our beautiful, light-filled facility boasts large classrooms and multi-purpose rooms, library, art room & cafeteria, office spaces, outdoor recreation spaces, and much more.
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.
Gorge MakerSpace
Hood River New School students have been working with instructor Jack Perrin at Gorge MakerSpace learning the fundamentals of design, building, and engineering since inception. In 2021, students created helpful solutions to some challenges faced by local high school students living with disabilities. Students were busy designing, developing, presenting, and revising their solutions for these very real-world problems.
