Accommodations
All programming at Wilderness Adventures is built to accommodate campers new to sleeping outdoors as well as campers who have experience with outdoor living! Your Trip Leaders will be there each step of the way with tips and tricks to ensure you are making them most of your outdoor living experience.
Tent Camping
Frontcountry camping refers to setting up camp at an established campground that your group will drive the van to. It may be helpful to think of this as car camping. While amenities will vary from site to site, these campgrounds often have picnic tables, fire rings, restrooms, and sometimes even running water and showers.
From how to set up your tent to how to stay warm at night, no matter where you are in the world, you will learn the ins and outs of camping, and you’ll be a pro at setting up and taking down your tent by the end of your trip!
Wilderness Adventures provides all tents! Many of our tents are Big Agnes or Alps Mountaineering 2-3 person tents. You will be assigned a tent group and will share your tent with 1-2 other campers!
Most Wilderness Adventures groups will experience a combination of frontcountry and backcountry night during their program. Backcountry campsites are in more remote areas and you will travel to sites by foot or kayak. As you travel to these sites, you will have everything you and the group might need packed in your backpack or kayak (clothes, food, water purification, cooking utensils and stoves, maps, and other group gear).
Wilderness Adventures provides all tents! Many of our tents are Big Agnes or Alps Mountaineering 2-3 person tents. You will be assigned a tent group and will share your tent with 1-2 other campers!
Sleeping under the stars is unlike anything else!
Do I need to bring my own tent?
Nope! Wilderness Adventures will provide a tent for you and your peers. We typically use 2-3 person tents, so everyone will be assigned a tent partner or two!
Will we set up a tent every day of the trip?
This will depend on your specific itinerary. When you are at the same campground for multiple days, you will get to leave everything set-up! When you are in the backcountry (backpacking or sea kayaking for example), you will pack everything up each day and adventure out to your next location – pretty neat!
How will we carry our tent?
When you are backpacking in the backcountry, you and your tent mates (1-2 other people) will split up the pieces of your tent so that you are each carrying some of the weight.
When you are camping at a frontcountry campground (where you have access to the van and trailer), you will just pack up the tent when it is time to head to a new location and store it in the trailer with all of the other gear.
International Accommodations
Much of our international programming utilizes accommodations like hostels, huts, and yurts. These won’t necessarily be the fanciest spots in town, but they will be a bit more established than sleeping at a campground in tents. On many of our international trips, hostels are the quintessential way to travel in that destination (particularly in Europe). Hostels and mountain huts provide the unique opportunity to meet locals, eat local food, and trek without carrying so much weight. Accommodations may include:
- Cabins
- On-site Lodging at the Service Project locations
- Mountain Refuges
- Private Hotels
- Hostels
- Rustic Cabins
- Home Stays
Our team has vetted each unique accommodation and have great trust in the places we book for our groups. Sometimes our team even travels to these locations to check them out ourselves to ensure everything is up to our standards!
If I wont be sleeping in a tent, do I still need to bring a sleeping bag and sleeping pad?
Yes! while you will be sleeping in more established accommodations, you will still need your own sleeping bag and sleeping pad.
Will the rooms be shared with other travelers?
Nope! All of our hostel and yurt rooms are reserved for our groups specifically.
