Trail Work Works
by Katie Wolpert Trail work can be a hard sell and offer only elusive rewards. It takes hard manual labor...
Expanding Our Bubble
There’s a bubble at the Spruce Knob Mountain Center. That top floor in the biggest yurt — above the library...
COVID-19 Policy Statement
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic Experience Learning is bringing to bear our proven risk management structure to do our part...
Finding Community in a Time of Social Distancing
The intent behind all of our programming is to expand our understanding of and participation in the communities that surround...
There Must Be a Balance: Skout’s Story
by Katie Wolpert Skout Barger remembers her 4th grade field trip to Spruce Knob for many reasons. She was enthralled...
From California to Connecticut, Petersburg to South Texas
From teachers to Navy pilots, geologists, herpetologists, and filmmakers, new staff for the fall season gathered on Spruce Knob represent...
Kite Fest 2019
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Experience Learning Podcast
We received a visit from the Wild Wonderful Podcast during our busy spring programming season. The podcast editor Lauren Coil...
Summer Campers Assist with New Trail Development at Seneca Rocks
by Katie Wolpert Our group of campers dwarfed the USFS trail crew and that was a good thing. The Cheat/Potomac...
The Problem with Authentic Experiences
When we started the process of creating a video to represent Experience Learning we quickly ran into a major hurdle....