
Outdoor Education offers classes for Physical Education credit and Backyard Adventures that allow students to explore the outdoors.

Students on our Wilderness Adventure pre-orientation program settle into life at Colgate with an exciting outdoor adventure.

First-year students can apply for Outdoor Ed staff positions. Lead expeditions, learn lifelong skills, and make new friends as an OE leader.


Outdoor Education's trained students and staff can help you foster good team relationships with our team-building programs
Mission
To provide Colgate students with leadership, wellness, personal growth, sense of place, and community-building opportunities through outdoor and experiential programs
In addition, our community values sustainability, diversity and inclusion, safety, and improvement. We support Colgate's mission to help students:
- Prepare for lives of leadership and productive citizenship
- Develop the skills to participate in a lifetime of healthy activity
- Develop personal potential and experience the cohesion of shared purpose