Outdoor Opportunities
Challenge Course & Team Building
We offer customizable experiential learning opportunities through a wide array of team-building activities and challenges designed to fit your group’s needs. Participants will experience trust, acceptance, positive communication, self-discovery, and expanding comfort zones. Our activities are delivered by professionally trained facilitators utilizing our high and low challenge courses, indoor FlexPlex (used for inclement weather), or using our portable experiences at your location.
Participant and risk management are of the utmost importance to us. As such, all of our courses and equipment follow standards set by the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT). For our high courses, trained facilitators will ensure that harnesses and helmets are fitted to each participant.
About Our Adventures:
Portable Team-Building: Great for Staff Development groups! We take the challenges to you! Our facilitators will provide grounded activities designed to challenge your group and increase cooperation, confidence, and communication based on your group’s needs. You provide the space, we’ll provide the equipment and fun. (3rd grade through Adult)
Low Ropes Challenge Course: Participants will engage in intentional team-building challenges where they will support each other through spotting and communication. Challenges will range from the ground to three feet above the ground, to group lifting. Challenges will be chosen by facilitators. (3rd grade through Adult)
High Ropes Challenge Course: Participants are equipped with harnesses and helmets and are attached to a belay system and challenge themselves on an element 30-40 feet in the air. Facilitators will choose the elements based on your group’s needs. All groups will be able to expand their personal boundaries and work on team support. (4th grade through Adult)
FlexPlex Indoor Course: Our indoor space is used during winter months and for inclement weather. If your group needs to be inside due to weather, our facilitators will choose between select portable elements and high elements in our FlexPlex. High elements in the FlexPlex are 15-25 feet in the air and include a climbing wall with six routes, crate stacking, and a marionette climb. (4th grade through Adult)
What Does a Day on the Course Look Like?
Standard Day at Greenbush (Girard): Typically 9:00 am-2:00 pm with a lunch break. Includes 2 hours of lows/grounded activities followed by 2 hours of high activities.
Choose Your Own Challenge: Choose a half day (2 hours) of any adventure or do a full day (4 hours) of lows or a full day of highs. Or you may consider doing the low course for a half day and choose another outdoor experience, such as canoes or archery for the other half.
Bookings Required. Open Weekdays Year-Round! In case of inclement weather, we will move to our indoor facility. Weekend requests will be considered but are dependent upon staff availability. Groups of over 30 may have to split into smaller groups and possibly attend on separate days.
Outdoor Adventures
Come spend a day with us adventuring outside! Activities may include canoeing, archery, Gaga Ball, fishing, and FUN! We can also incorporate some environmental and conservation education activities at your request. In case of inclement weather, we will plan fun indoor activities.
Introduction to Ecosystems (4th-8th)
*weather permitting
Join us for a guided hike around the Greenbush Campus as we participate in hands-on activities introducing five different Southeast Kansas habitats, the native species, and learn about the interactions between biotic and abiotic factors within these ecosystems.
Standards: 5-LS2-1, MS-LS1-4, MS-LS1-5, MS-lS2-3, MS-LS2-4