Site-based Trips

Our site-based trips stay primarily in one location for the duration of the trip as opposed to travelling to camp at new location each day. Through a variety of activities, site-based trips allow FOPpers to fully explore one area while also spending time building connections with each other and reflecting about the transition to college. We offer two types of site-based trips:

cabinSite-based Service trips camp in one location and spend 3 days performing service work nearby. Service projects in the past have included building rock steps, improving trail drainage systems, improving campsites, assisting on a permaculture farm, and more. For non-service days, trips will go on day hikes and other adventures to rewarding destinations nearby.

Cabin-based Site Exploration trips will spend the week learning about one location from a variety of perspectives. Students will stay in cabins, and will use different methods to develop a deeper understanding  of the place they are staying. For example, some Site Exploration trips will stay at the Harvard Forest, a Harvard-owned experimental forest in central Massachusetts. Participants there will: engage with the ecological research currently being conducted there; learn about the history of colonial New England by examining Forest property and buildings; appreciate the current recreational value of the forest through day hikes; and so on. 

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