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Family Nature Summits: A unique travel adventure in nature for seniors, active adults and kids. A best value family vacation and annual summer tradition.
The Family nature Summits organization exists for the sole purpose of organizing and executing annual Family Summit events at different and interesting locations each summer. The organization, developed as a program of the National Wildlife Federation and now and independent 501(c)(3), Family Nature Summits offers unique travel experiences and educational opportunities during a week long summit each summer. Faculty for the Family Nature Summits are recruited from educational institutions from across North America including: University of Tennessee.
Summiteers and travelers enjoy comfortable yet affordable accommodations and unique travel experiences. Singles and families traveling to the Summits explore and enjoy learning about nature and recreation activities in the outdoors for travelers of all ages. At a Family Nature Summits, travel experiences include trees, lakes, summits, nature, happy families, beauty in nature, families in nature, hiking, nature photography, rock climbing, white water rafting, rivers, mountains, peaks, summer camp, camp crafts, educational travel, adventure travel, value travel, streams, woods, clean water, family walking, family hiking, wild flowers, family adventures.
If you are considering annual summer travel with family, Family Nature Summits is a great program for your family to explore, enjoy and learn about nature. The program includes activities for all ages and discounted travel room rates and discounted travel meal plans. Transportation for Summit events is included although travel to and from Summit locations is not. There are educational programs designed for the entire family with professional faculty, nature walks, music and entertainment, wildlife demonstrations and storytelling. Summits are a unique summer experience filled with outdoor adventure travel, nature study and environmental learning while on vacation. Grandparents, parents, young adults and children enjoy active, outdoor vacations and get the opportunity to practice outdoor skills and explore their own personal limits in the outdoors with the supervision of trained professionals.
An affordable way to appreciate nature and the outdoors while on vacation with family, Family Nature Summits also include, outdoor learning, outdoor enjoyment, outdoor travel, family travel, family adventure, family travel adventure, travel with kids, kids vacations, education travel, active adult travel, senior travel, active vacations, value vacations and value travel.
Family Nature Summits provide a fun and stimulating outdoor-oriented vacation, offering participants the opportunity to enjoy and learn about nature and the environment. Summits offer a broad variety of activities and programs that appeal to life-long learners and those who are good stewards of the environment and nature. Participants love birding, walking and hiking with friends and family.
Enjoy the outdoors. Learn about nature. Find inspiration to be a better steward of the earth. Family Nature Summits!
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Singles and families who attend the summits learn about nature and the environment, have fun outdoors, appreciate nature and environmental conservation, enjoy the outdoors and learn about nature all on a very active vacation. One of the best value vacations for young, youth, kids, active adults, seniors, singles and single parents. Family Nature Summits are great vacations for families and singles. Get involved in the outdoor and summer vacation activities you love with other active, families, seniors, active adults, young adults and kids. Family Nature Summits is North America's most active week-long summer adventure for outdoor-minded seniors, active adults, young adults, kids and their families.There are organized events over the course of a week covering every outdoor and nature sport and social activity imaginable and appropriate for the Summit location. Participate in plenty of outdoor recreation including hiking, rock-climbing, canoeing, kayaking, trekking, mountain biking, river rafting and more. Meet other interesting singles, families, seniors, active adults, young adults and kids who love the outdoors and keeping active!
Family Nature Summit trips are well-organized with a very well thought out itinerary taking in the best of each destination. Due to the number of participants in the Summits, we are able to offer significant discounts on travel accommodations economical travel meal plans and very affordable educational programs.
Family Nature Summits are a very good value vacation with group rates for hotel rooms and meals. Once registered for the Summit, most program events are free. Hike a trail, paddle a canoe, float in a raft, play on a beach—the opportunities for family adventure are endless. We welcome singles, single parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles in addition to two-parent families.
For children, toddlers to teens and beyond, the creative and engaging programs are packed with outdoor activities fostering a genuine enthusiasm for nature and eco-tourism throughout North America and beyond. A great experience for singles and families interested in exploring nature on their vacations in an outdoor environment.
Scores of nature vacation experiences are crafted for singles and families and combined with the best in education travel for seniors, education travel for young adults and active adults, education travel for families and education travel for kids. Summiteers find active experiential learning and affordable, value travel in nature on these nature vacations. When traveling with family, Nature Summits provide excellent family vacations.
Honor the National Wildlife Federation legacy and become an informed steward of nature and our environment. All Family Nature Summits include a conservation component. Conservationists and experts will teach you history, science, strategies, and techniques to become a positive and effective steward of our environment. By the end of the trip, you'll be an inspired advocate who can bring your newfound skills back to your community, to take action and to help conserve our precious planet. Less active summiteers are free to leave the more vigorous and daring activities to the most adventurous summiteers and enjoy a more leisurely pace, peppered with lively conversation and education. Take a unique and leisurely approach to experiencing wilderness. Your senses will open in a way that's only possible when you have the time to smell the roses.
Experience new places, people, and activities. A primary objective of Family Nature Summits is to heighten participants' awareness of our fragile environment and encourage them to take steps to protect our planet. By introducing young people to the delights of our natural world, we hope they will become lifelong protectors of nature and the environment.
Family Nature Summits offers a pathway to lifelong learning and lifelong friends: Participants are curious, adventuresome and open to experiencing the world through learning and travel. When you participate in a Family Nature Summit, you will learn and grow in the company of others who believe that learning is important and valuable while on vacation.
Summit faculty are both authorities on the Summit destinations and lifelong learners themselves who are excited to answer your questions and explore with you, hear your opinions and share in your experience. The learning that takes place is not imparted solely by faculty but is a shared experience augmented by participants themselves.
Family Nature Summits offers lectures and practical education in nature as well as comfortable accommodations and affordable group meals included in the price of the Summit. Family Nature Summits has been providing unique, not-for-profit lifelong learning and educational travel since 1970. The Summits remain committed to continually developing new program destinations, topics and formats to reflect the contemporary trends of our family adventure travel in nature participants.
Colleges, Universities, Educational and Environmental Organizations with which our faculty, staff, volunteers and board members are and have been associated include: Bay Path College, Bucknell University, Miami River Valley College, Wright State University, Adirondack Mountain Club, Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, Antioch University, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Wingate University, Muhlenberg College, Wake Forest University, Tennessee Technological University, Illinois Association for Advancement of Archaeology, University of Tennessee, Mary Baldwin College, Ohio State University, Messiah College, Yellow Breeches Educational Center, Memorial University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine, UCLA, UCI, George Washington University, Crystal Cove Alliance, The Ecology Center, The Outdoors Club, University of New Hampshire, Adventure Cycling Association, American Hiking Society, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conservancy, Abbington Friends School, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, National Science Foundation, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Iowa State University.
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