Learning adventures start here!

Red Alder Group is proud to continue the legacy of high-quality programs that were developed and offered by Straub Outdoors, a mid-Willamette Valley nonprofit that served our regional community for 22 years from 2002 through 2024.

Red Alder Summer Camps offer the same enriching learning activities, highly-training staff, and supportive environment that were hallmarks of Straub Outdoors’ programs. Daily field trips and other engaging activities bring science, history, culture, and the arts to life!

Ages: 6-12 (entering 1st - 7th grade in Fall 2025)

Daily Hours: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm (see 2025 dates, below)

Location: Pringle Community Hall, 606 Church St SE, Salem, OR 97301

Tuition: $479 per child per week

(10% discount for additional siblings registering for the same camp)

Registration is open! Click HERE to register.

To learn more about our summer camp program, click the link below:

2025 Red Alder Summer Camp Guide

Meet a veterinarian, take a tour of an animal rescue and rehabilitation center, and learn about some of the dangers that domesticated and wild animals face and how humans can help these animals survive and thrive. Practice taking an animal’s vital signs (pulse and respiration) and administering basic first aid to a pet. Meet 4-H and FFA members and their prize-winning animals at the Oregon State Fair. (Includes fair admission on Friday, August 22.)

Learn why and how humans first domesticated dogs, cats, cows, horses, and chickens and the “jobs” they often do that have helped humans over thousands of years. Visit a farm, watch a dog agility demonstration, get to know a therapy animal, and meet giant draft horses at the Oregon State Fair. (Includes fair admission on Friday, August 29). Learn the differences between wild animals like wolves and cougars and domesticated animals like poodles and cats.

For more information call 503-302-4645 or email RedAlderGroup@gmail.com.

Photo at the top of this page courtesy of Hans Splinter.