Shady Creek Outdoor School

Construction is continuing on the shade structure over the amphitheater at Shady Creek. We are looking forward to using this beautiful space when we are able to reopen. Many thanks to the Shady Creek Outdoor Education Foundation for making this project possible!

We are so very grateful for all the projects completed by our visiting AmeriCorps team. Thank you Blue 8!

With Thanksgiving day around the corner. Words truly don’t express our Gratitude. Thank you BLUE 8 of AMERICORPS! We really appreciate all your help tending and clearing the land here.

Here at Shady Creek we honor all living beings and habitats in nature. Today we had some exciting visitors. We found a grouping of bats trying to make a new home near the pool house. With big thanks to Shannon Cueva Little for gently and kindly relocating these sweet creatures to an area where they could find a natural hibernation space. Among all the stigma around bats. Bats are a crucial mammal in the earths cycles and habitats. They provide essential pest control, includi...ng eating mosquitos! They pollinate our plants and disperse seeds for new plants and trees. Today we are enjoying the animal presence on the land and hope you are having a wonderful day too! (This is stock photo, unsure who photo credit goes too)

Shady Creek is feeling so thankful, the AmeriCorps group has arrived, positive and hardworking! They’ve been giving us a big hand with fire protection this week!

It's Friday, which means the Foundation has Shady Creek history on the brain! This week, we are sharing the first few images taken following the program's move ...to Woodleaf from Donner Mines in 1969. Little did they know, the program would remain here for the next 35 years. Those who went to Woodleaf as a kid often remember it as a life-changing experience, and we are happy to report the program continues to change lives after all this time! See more