WHO WE ARE
Adventure Therapy Foundation is a nonprofit that exists to provide no-cost outdoor experiences designed for individuals and their families impacted by cancer.
We provide families with adventures of their own design. Families impacted by cancer are invited to present Adventure Therapy with an outdoor opportunity that no one in your family has ever tried. We then plan the adventure and send you on your way. The excitement mixed with adrenaline will seal the day into your family’s memory forever.
One out-of-your-comfort-zone activity can prove to everyone in your family, that when you work together, you can accomplish anything. Adventures can look like ice skating, camping, backpacking, hiking, skiing, surfing, rock climbing, snowshoeing, cycling, zip lining, kayaking, trapeze training, sailing, and on and on your options go. Dream it up and we will set it up.
ADVENTURE IDEAS
What’s the dream activity for your family?
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and
give strength to body
and soul alike.”
John Muir- The Yosemite (1912)
“I’m not going to say that getting out into nature
gives my family a vacation from cancer: it doesn’t.
There is no vacation from cancer. But, camping and
hiking do give me and my family wonderful times
together and provides a feeling of peace
that we don’t find anywhere else.”
-Clifton Huffmaster
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