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8450 East Camp Amnicon Rd
South Range, WI  54874
Phone:  715/364-2602
Fax:  715/364-2652


Contact:  Alana Butler or Simon Gretton


ACA Accredited Camp

Lake Superior's Apostle Islands

Our signature island-to-island canoe camping on the world''s largest fresh water lake, celebrated for its pristine beauty, is an awesome experience! Paddling in rhythm in a 34' Montreal canoe is an ideal way to deepen relationships and develop teamwork. Enjoy the immensity of clear blue water as you glide over sunken ships and explore sandstone sea caves.

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, and adults

Wild Whitewater Canoe Trips

Whether exploding through a standing wave or watching your friends build skills and confidence, you will enjoy every exciting moment of this trip! Your travels take you thirty miles along the Brule River from tranquil waters, through thrilling rapids, to the shores of Lake Superior. Whitewater-canoe training provided.

Summer only
Senior high, young adults and adults

North Country Wilderness Backpacking

Feel alive as you strengthen body, soul, and the bonds of friendship backpacking the rugged trails of the Sawtooth Mountains! The Superior Hiking Trail offers spectacular views of Lake Superior and is home to moose, bear, and wolf. The trail ranges from easy/gradual to strenuous/challenging. Celebrate life on the trail!

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, and adults

Northland Scenic River Trip

Celebrate life together as you immerse yourself in the beauty of God''s creation paddling one of the most scenic waterways in Wisconsin. The current on the Namekagon/St. Croix ranges from steady to quite fast, to occasional whitewater! Along the way, swim, fish, spot wildlife, giggle and enjoy campfire conversation.

Summer only
Junior high, families, intergenerational groups

Northwoods Wilderness

Swim, relax, enjoy one another and God''s amazing creation as you paddle the Manitowish River Wilderness area where the density of bald eagle, osprey and loon nesting pairs is the highest in Wisconsin! The terrain varies from level to steeply rolling hills. Camping is by the water's edge, on islands or in secluded bays.

Summer only
Junior high, families, intergenerational

Flambeau River Reamble

Grab your paddle and come travel what enthusiasts have acclaimed as one of the nation''s finest canoeing rivers! Begin your trip on the quiet waters near Nine Mile Creek in the presence of bald eagles and beaver lodges. Progress down the wild and beautiful Flambeau, preparing for adventurous rapids and beautiful campsites!

Summer only
Junior high, senior high, young adults, intergenerational, adults

Adizokan Village: A Summer Camp for All Kinds of Families

Among aspen, ash and spruce, beautiful Adizokan Villages stands on a forested ridge overlooking the magnificent Lake Superior shore. Amnicon has developed a brand new program to highlight the abundance of the north woods for families of all shapes and sizes! Your counselors will guide your group on an adventure exploring woodland flora and fauna, beach fun, theological discussions, and an overnight canoe camping trip while living in tent cabins on the shore of Lake Superior. Share in the joys of discovering the story and spirit (Adizokan in Ojibwe) of all parts of your family life while strengthening each relationship. An experience of the simple life that is sure to leave you full of peace and rich in spirit.

Summer Only
Intergenerational

Lake Country Wilderness Canoe Trips

Picture yourself in roadless canoe country set apart where humans are only visitors and the days are measured by the movement of the canoe through clear blue water or footsteps along the portage trail. Explore the splendor of old growth forests and the 34 pristine lakes of the Sylvania Wilderness Area. After a good day’s paddle sit around the campfire to relax and take in the beauty of God’s creation.

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, adults

Backcountry Canoe Quest (Whitewater)

Journey through land that looks much the same as it did two hundred years ago. Experience a sense of freedom that has almost been forgotten. Revel in the simple magnificence of the Cloquet River as you paddle its quiet water and navigate the tumbling rapids. Camp by the water''s edge, cook over a crackling fire and laugh with friends!

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, intergenerational, adults

Voyageur Canoeing in Voyageurs National Park

Paddle a 34'' Montreal canoe along the wild and beautiful Canadian border in Voyageurs National Park. Islands and bays, rocky cliffs and sandy beaches will be your home -- Beaver, loons and fellow paddlers will be your community. Explore faith, fellowship and simplicity in the midst of group joys and challenges in this amazing landscape.

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, adults

Amnicon Builders

A service/leadership program with a bonus! Spend your first nine days doing work projects, developing leadership skills, building community, leading programs and exploring the 700 acres of Amnicon’s site. Then take your skills on the trails for four days! Be prepared to deepen your friendships, renew your faith, build skills and have tons of fun!
Summer only
Senior high

Guide in Training

Your introduction to becoming a guide in future years! Technical skills such as whitewater canoeing, fire starting, map & compass, trails procedures; as well as intangible skills such as relating to youth, leading devotions, managing group dynamics & planning campfire programs will become part of your repertoire. Your training ends by assisting an Amnicon guide on an adventure trip. Fun, friendship and Christ-centered community are all part of this experience!

Summer only
Those who have completed 11th grade and up may apply

Apostle Island Kayaking on Lake Superior for Adults

Paddling a sea kayak is like being one with the water as you explore the Apostle Islands! Paddle through sandstone sea caves, over sunken ships and camp at remote island campsites on the world''s largest freshwater lake, celebrated for its pristine beauty. Training is provided.

Summer only
Young adults, adults

Amnicon Explorers

An introduction to the wonder, beauty and adventure of the great outdoors and the life of a Voyageur! Camp on the Lake Superior beach, cook over a campfire, canoe the meandering scenic Amnicon and take a trip to the Pokegama river outpost. Track wild animals, reflect on your own life''s tracks and think about the tracks we leave upon the earth.

Summer only
Youth completing the 6th grade

Sailing in the Apolstle Islands

The powerful force of the wind fills the sails of our 52-ft, schooner Abbey Road as you glide across the sparkling waters, exploring the historic, rugged wilderness of the Apostle Islands on Lake Superior. Sailing together provides a unique setting for the development of teamwork, getting to know one’s traveling companions, and engaging one another in meaningful conversations. Your adventure will find you exploring several of the 22 scenic Apostle Islands—hiking, swimming and camping. Share in devotions, delight in the myriad of wildlife present on the islands, work hard with your shipmates to hoist another sail, then relax to the rhythmic lapping of waves.

Summer only
Senior high, young adults, adults
Family Opportunities
All trips are available to Adult groups.

P.O. Box 1076
Cook, MN  55723
Phone:  800/331-5148


Contact:  Julie Scheuring

It''s not just a great adventure with good friends; it''s a journey of a lifetime. Experience one of North America''s few remaining wilderness areas, on crystal pure waterways surrounded by ancient rocks and trees. The BWCAW is a great place in creation to explore your connection with God, while experiencing a life of faith within a caring community. Discover your strength and use your gifts to help the group with the journey.

Summer only
Custom-designed
Senior high, adults, families

Houseboat on Lake Vermilion

Come and discover the difference between what is fleeting and artificial and what is eternal and natural. Experience the beauty of God''s creation, fellowship, and spiritual renewal, traveling on a houseboat on 42 mile long Lake Vermilion.

Summer only
Custom-designed
Junior high, senior high, adults, families

P.O. Box 1187
Bemidji, MN  56619
Phone:  218/751-4208
Fax:  218/751-1453


Contact:  Shana Williams

Ready for a wild summer?! This camp combines a challenge course experience, water, sports and wilderness camping. Begin your week at Camp Emmaus in Menahga, Minnesota. There your will participate in the low and high challenge course to prepare yourself physically and mentally for the week ahead. The Crow Wing River will be your home for the next three days. Paddle and camp your way downstream until Thursday morning where you will be shuttled to Luther Crest near Alexandria, Minnesota. Celebrate your journey end water skiing on the clear, blue waters of Lake Carlos or spend time at a nearby water park. Individuals and groups can sign up for this camp.

Junior high
Custom-designed

Houseboat

Get away from it all and expose your youth group to the pristine wilderness of Rainy Lake. Your group will spend a week in a 55-foot houseboat! You''ll explore various islands, take day trips, fish, snorkel, swim, have Bible studies, Worships and have a great time in God''s creation. It will be a trip to remember for years to come, so round up some friends and journey to the Minnesota North Country! This trip needs to be booked as a group and have an adult coordinator attending.

Senior high

738 Hickory Point Ln
Amery, WI  54001-5129
Phone:  715/268-8434, ext. 21
Fax:  715/268-4451


Contact:  Loren Teig

Come and enjoy beautiful Northwest Wisconsin with us! Take a hand in developing your unique Journey of the Cross adventure. Elements include: biking for 80 miles on the Gandy Dancer Trail, canoeing for 15 miles on either the Namekagon or St. Croix River, horseback riding, hiking, rock climbing, high and low ropes/challenge course and servant based activity. Campers begin and end their adventure at Ox Lake Bible Camp, and camp at other sites along the journey. Journey of the Cross is a small group experience. Campers must supply their own bikes and helmets. Campers sleep in tents and encouraged to pack lightly!

Junior high, senior high, young adults
Summer only

14 Keeley Island Drive
Slayton, MN  56172
Phone:  507/763-3567
Fax:    507/763-3567

    
Contact:  Kristen Ruud
ACA Accredited Camp

Ready for a wild summer?! This camp combines a challenge course experience, water, sports and wilderness camping. Begin your week at Camp Emmaus in Menahga, Minnesota. There your will participate in the low and high challenge course to prepare yourself physically and mentally for the week ahead. The Crow Wing River will be your home for the next three days. Paddle and camp your way downstream until Thursday morning where you will be shuttled to Luther Crest near Alexandria, Minnesota. Celebrate your journey end water skiing on the clear, blue waters of Lake Carlos or spend time at a nearby water park. Individuals and groups can sign up for this camp.

Junior high
Custom-designed

PO Box 305
Medora, ND  58645
Phone:  701/623-4332
Fax:  701/623-4332


Contact:  Chris Moe

Spend some time in the beautiful Badlands of North Dakota getting your group truly ready to serve. Our high adventure high ropes course "Leap of Faith" was built to mold and shape you and your adult leaders for Christian service from the inside-out, through: 1.) experience, 2.) learning, 3.) application. Leap of Faith is a training field for groups prior to a servant project. A "leap of faith" implies a move from the comfort zone or status quo into a place that may be scary, unknown, or risky. Service in God''s name is at times all of these things. Without Christian service, youth and young adults will miss out on a rich, exciting, living faith life. Participants overcome obstacles on a high adventure course. Instructors relate the adventure learning to Christian life/faith. Participating groups take the LOF experience and implement it into a servant project of their own choosing and organizing.

Junior high, senior high, young adults
Custom-designed

Lutheran Outdoors in South Dakota
2001 S. Summit Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD  57197
Phone:  800/888-1464
Fax:  605/274-5024


Contact:  Cheryl Lundeen
ACA Accredited Camp

Like horses? You'll love Klein Ranch. Klein is a unique camp that offers youth the opportunity to begin to stretch their boundaries, and abilities, as they learn to ride horses on the open prairie. Through life in small group community, youth strengthen their identity and gain depth in their faith. At Klein, youth also develop a sense of responsibility for themselves and for others as they care for the animals at the ranch. Klein Ranch specialized in providing summer camping experiences for youth having completed grades 7-12.

Junior high, senior high

AMR Adventures

Participants custom design their week at camp. Choose from several options: backpacking; mountain biking; geocaching, low-ropes challenge course fly fishing, spelunking, rock-climbing, kayaking and hiking. Your week includes worship, Bible study, outdoor cooking and living in Christian Community.

Junior high, senior high, young adults, families
Custom-designed

Biking on the Mickelson Trail

Bike the length of the Black Hills from Deadwood to Edgemont on the Mickelson Trail, a converted railroad line. At the end of the day enjoy a meal cooked outdoors. Marvel at the variety of pine forests, rock canyons, open prairie and cascading streams as you bike 15-30 miles per day on a dedicated bike trail. Bikes and helmets provided by the camp. The week includes camping, outdoor cooking, worship, team building and Bible study.

Junior high, senior high, older adults, young adults
Custom-designed

"Fort Courage" Pioneer Adventure Week

Take a step back in time. Build relationships with other campers and discover God''s love as you play, work and challenge yourself and your new friends during this week. Live the simple lifestyle of the pioneers in an authentic replica of an 1880''s western stockade in the Black Hills near Custer, South Dakota. Activities include horseback riding, hiking, overnight campouts, cooking over an open fire, worship, play and team-building on a low-ropes challenge course.

Junior high, senior high

Young Adult Adventure Week

Bring a group of young adults to the Black Hills for an exciting week where you can plan your own adventures. Spend the days exploring the beautiful hills while you build relationships through worship and study, camping, and outdoor cooking. Caving, backpacking, mountain biking, servant projects, fly fishing, geocaching, hiking, horseback riding, low-ropes challenge course, kayaking and rock climbing are among your choices.

Young adults
Custom-designed

Black Hills Riders

A special horse riding week at Fort Courage at Atlantic Mountain Ranch, near Custer, South Dakota. Live simply like the early settlers, in a log stockade, and ride out each day to explore the Black Hills ridges, creeks and mines. You will learn to care for your own horse-feeding, brushing; saddling and learn how to ride in the back country. Back at camp, learn about draft horses, covered wagons and horseshoeing. Along the way, we will have Bible study, worship, games, great singing and learning how to cook over the open fire.

Junior high, senior high

12477 Gunflint Trail
Grand Marais, MN  55604
Phone:  218/388-2241
Fax:  715/388-9400


Contact: Pastor Jedidiah Scharmer
ACA Accredited Camp

Since 1956, Wilderness Canoe Base has been providing premier wilderness canoeing experiences for groups seeking God in the undeveloped beauty of the BWCAW. Wilderness Canoe Base proudly provides highly trained and skilled guides for your journey through the ancient waters of Northern Minnesota and Canada. They will work with your group to develop teamwork, "Leave No Trace" camping skills, Bible Studies, devotions, awareness of the world around them, and of course paddling and portage skills. Come to the wilderness and let God grow your group in faith, community, responsibility, experience and their own self-image.

Senior high, older adults, young adults, families
Custom-designed trips are available and are our specialty
Season runs from June-September

Fall and Spring Retreats

Be Still and Know that I am God! Psalm 46:10 speaks plainly during the changing seasons at Wilderness Canoe Base. The fall offers the subtle joys of a cooling landscape: morning paddles through the mists, cool air and a warm sun, swimming in a lake still holding the summer''s heat, hiking through the changing colors, campfires and their stories, watching and listening to the birds preparing for their journeys, taking a refreshing sauna and many more. The spring offers the excitement of budding plants and animals returning to their warm-weather routines. The fishing is excellent, the only crowds around are the returning birds, the sauna is hot, the campfire is burning, and the welcome is always warm. Daily devotions take the form of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "First and Last Word," book-ending the adventures of the day in the Word of God. Feel free to relax and observe God''s creation, go out to hike or fish the clear waters of Seagull Lake, or even ask the staff if there are any chores that you can help with! The retreat season is completely customizable and includes an ever-changing menu of first rate, home-cooked meals, made slowly with Love! Retreats are responsible for their own programming other than "First and Last Word."

Season runs September-November and May-June

Winter Retreats and Winter Camping

A relatively new development at Wilderness Canoe Base is the presence of a thorough and exciting winter retreat and camping program. Whether you desire to ski or snowshoe the frozen lakes of the Boundary Waters or to listen to the absolute stillness of the winter ringing in your ears, the winter season at Wilderness Canoe Base can offer it. Day trips to memorable vistas, crackling fires in the lake are only some of the options for our winter retreats. For the more adventurous, we have a new option of winter camping on Seagull Lake in canvas wall tents with portable wood stoves. Whether you want more time out in the wilderness or solitude to the max, our cold-weather trained guides will take you to a pre-determined camp for an overnight in the comfort of a heated tent. It is a true rustic experience accentuated by great food and even better conversation. Learn the tricks of winter camping or expand on your current experience in an an amazing setting. Daily devotions take the form of Dietrich Bonhoeffer''s "First and Last Word," book-ending the adventure of the day in the word of God. The retreat season is completely customizable and includes an ever changing menu of first rate, home cooked meals, made slowly with love! Retreats are responsible for their own programming other than "First and Last World." Call for details on camping options.

Season runs January-March

8231 County Road 11 NE
Alexandria, MN  56308
Phone:  320/846-2431
Fax:  320/846-0201


Contact:  Jody Johnson

Ready for a wild summer?! This camp combines a challenge course experience, water, sports and wilderness camping. Begin your week at Camp Emmaus in Menahga, Minnesota. You will participate in the low and high challenge course to prepare yourself physically and mentally for the week ahead. The Crow Wing River will be your home for the next three days. Paddle and camp your way downstream until Thursday morning where you will be shuttled to Luther Crest near Alexandria, Minnesota. Celebrate your journey with water skiing on the clear, blue waters of Lake Carlos or spend time at a nearby water park. Individuals and groups can sign up for this camp. A non-refundable deposit is required for individual and group registration.

Registration Deadline: 30 days prior to program start date.
Junior high

Waterama

Spend a week on the water! Luther Crest Bible Camp is located on beautiful Lake Carlos with easy access to Alexandria, Minnesota’s chain-of-lakes. Challenge yourself to water-skiing and tubing on our four-person tube named Great Big Mable!!! Enjoy a pontoon trip to one of the nation''s largest indoor water parks and dinner at a local Caribbean themed Restaurant. Pack your sunscreen, your towel, your swimsuit and be ready for tons of fun on the water! Individuals and groups can sign up for this camp. A non-refundable deposit is required for individual and group registration.

Senior high

30376 Lakes Dr
Danbury, WI  54830
Phone:  715/656-7244
Fax:  715/656-3013


Contact:  Anna Treague

Explore the wild and scenic rivers of northern Wisconsin as you travel on the Namekagon and St. Croix Rivers through miles of undisturbed wilderness. Share in the experience of working together, falling asleep to the cry of the loon and the peaceful sounds of waves lapping against the rocks. Luther Park supplies the guide and everything you need, except a sleeping bag and personal gear. Register as a group, up to 13 people per trip.

Summer only
Junior high, senior high, young adults, older adults, and families

Tree House Village

In this outpost program, youth spend a week in rugged tree houses, working together to grow in a relationship with God, the environment and each other. Campers will experience hands-on environmental educational activities relating to all of God''s creation. You will have the opportunity to cook meals over an open fire, explore, get away from the crowd and have fun in God''s great outdoors.

Junior high, senior high, families
Custom-designed

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