Activities
Adventure Program
41.2266° N, 75.2676° W
Spruce Lake’s Adventure Program offers groups a range of activities ideal for understanding interpersonal dynamics, building cooperation, and learning to problem-solve – all while having lots of fun! Our facilitators are trained, our equipment is professionally designed and safety-tested. All activities are Challenge by Choice, which means that participants choose their own level of challenge pertaining to that activity.
Group leaders may ask the facilitator to lead a wrap-up time to process what the group learned and to challenge participants to look more deeply into Christian faith.
Teambuilders
Choose from one of two teambuilding options, according to the time available and age of participants. In these activities your team must work together to creatively overcome various obstacles. The insights gained can develop skills in communication and cooperation that are needed for life — home, church, school and work.
Teambuilding Initiatives
For younger groups / less time: This is a short program that involves teamwork and games using items such as beanbags, hoops, tarps or poles to teach interpersonal skills and concepts.
- Time: 1.5 hours
- Ages: 8 and up
- Group Size: 8-15
Teambuilding Course
For older groups / more time: Junior high, senior high and adult groups will engage in 2 or 3 exercises using bean bags, hoops, ropes and other props to teach foundational team-building skills and concepts. As the group progresses through more challenging elements, they will encounter swinging tires, walls, beams, ropes, platforms and teeter-totters. We’ll take time to observe, discuss and learn from the group’s approach to solving each challenge. Participants grow in communication skills, leadership, cooperation, patience, goal-setting, analysis and planning.
- Time: 3 hours
- Ages: 12 and up
- Group Size: 8-15
Climbing Events
Climbing Tower
Our 40-foot outdoor tower offers various routes and levels of challenge, with obstacles and a significant overhang. One to three people may climb at one time. You’ll learn proper climbing techniques, set personal goals and receive encouragement from your group.
- Time: half hour
- Ages: 8 and up
- Group Size: 8-10
- Time: 1 hour
- Ages: 8 and up
- Group Size: 11-20
Climbing Wall
Our “mountain of a wall” in the Mountain View gym at Wilderness Camp is 40′ wide x 42′ high, offering varied challenges and routes for up to six people at a time.
- Time: 1/2 hour
- Ages: 8 and up
- Weight Limit: 310 lbs.
- Group Size: 8-10
- Time: 1 hour
- Ages: 8 and up
- Weight Limit: 310 lbs.
- Group Size: 11-20
Vertical Playpen
This outdoor climbing element is located on one side of the Climbing Tower. It requires two people working together to climb up and over a net, a beam, huge tire, ladders and ropes to a platform more than 30 feet off the ground. There are creative ways for adjusting the ease or difficulty of the route. To reach the platform, all climbers need cooperation and perseverance.
- Time: 3 hours
- Ages: 12 and up
- Group Size: 8-18
Power Swing
Indoor Power Swing
This is a simple thrill ride for all ages. You’ll be attached to a giant cable, then pulled by your teammates high toward the rafters. Suddenly, you’re released to swing back and forth as on a giant swing!
- Time: 1.5 hours
- Ages: 8 and up
- Group Size: 8-15
High Ropes Course
Indoor High Ropes
Known as the “Jacob’s Ladder and Wild Woosey,” our indoor high ropes course tests your ability to work with a partner to climb a 25-foot high swinging ladder with rungs increasingly further apart. There’s no way around it – you will need each other to step out onto the twin cables that also get further apart! This course develops personal confidence, teamwork and communication skills.
- Time: 3 hours
- Ages: 12 and up
- Group Size: 8-16
Zip Line
Tandem Zip Line
Two riders can leave the mounting platform simultaneously to fly approximately 500 feet to an eventual stop at the corner of the parking lot below Spruce Lodge. At the peak height of descent, riders will be approximately 50 feet in the air.
- Time: 45 Minutes
- Ages: 10 and up
- Group Size: 8-16
- Weight Limit: 70-240 lbs.
- Other specifications: shoes must have a closed back or back strap
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