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Berkshire Outdoor Center
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The Berkshire Outdoor Center!

The Berkshire Outdoor Center operates year-round programs for schools, colleges, youth groups, adult groups, families and individuals from all over New England and New York. Berkshire Outdoor Center is unique - combining incredible adventure leadership programs with environmental education and fantastic recreational activities.

More than 9,000 participants experience the Berkshire Outdoor Center each year. The Berkshire Outdoor Center inspires to evoke change – interpersonal and intrapersonal change - through experiential education, emphasizing relationships in all of our programs.

Our programs help build understanding, respect, responsibility and caring within the individual, between individuals within the group, between the groups, and between humans and the environment. These skills and experiences are lifelong.

The Berkshire Outdoor Center is home to the most comprehensive ropes course in the North-Eastern United States, with a brand new High ropes course added at Chimney Corners in the spring of 2007.

Rudd Pond
Ships' Crossing

The Berkshire Outdoor Center is truly in the most beautiful setting! We have more than 1,350 acres of conservation lands here in the Berkshires - including forests, bogs, ponds and miles of trails - surrounding our three ponds, including the 90 acre Rudd Pond.

We don't share the ponds with anyone but our guests, creating safe, tranquil and serene environments for boating, kayaking and swimming.

Our lodges feature rustic cabins, including our brand new Iroquois Village/Senior Unit cabins, dorm-style winterized lodges and the gorgeous Ina Gibson Lodge. (more on facilities)

Berkshire Outdoor Center is ACA Accredited and meets all ACCT standards.