Schools can choose from two types of offerings at Cottonwood Gulch for their students:

Traveling Field Expeditions - Groups of 10 to 20 students

Similar to a mobile classroom, our expeditions take your students through culturally or scientifically significant and remote areas of the American Southwest. Whether camped at 11,000 feet on a mountain pass or in the wide open desert of the Navajo and Hopi Tribes, students learn about how the land and its people relate to each other. Each course is designed to meet the needs of your school. Choose components for your expedition from our offerings in adventure, art, archaeology, cultural exchange, ecology, service learning, and wilderness skills and ethics. As a traveling expedition, the students and teachers get to know each other in ways they often would not have imagined at school. We can operate a single group or multiple groups of 10-20 students each.

Retreats and Camping Trips at Base Camp - Up to 75 students

The base camp and nature preserve of Cottonwood Gulch is the perfect place to host your school's camping trips for orientations, retreats, and workshops. Facilities are rustic and allow participants to live in nature, with basic conveniences. The 540-acre nature preserve includes accommodations, meeting spaces, and facilities for team building, art, ecology, and archaeology. Students live and work cooperatively at the Gulch and find it is a unique place that inspires creativity, fun, and reflection.