Adventure Packs
Adventure Packs turn "I’m boreeeeed…what do you mean go explore outside, there isn’t anything to DO outside" into "can we turn this tablet off and go explore the trails with an
Adventure Pack?” in one simple step!
Adventure Packs were graciously sponsored by the Alpine Kiwanis Club and expertly curated by the Wild Roots Nature Center education team! Designed for the modern explorer, these backpacks are your ticket to experiencing the great outdoors like never before.
Each Adventure Pack is stocked with a variety of tools to help enhance your experience while out on the trail. We’ve also included a handy dandy guide of activities, scavenger hunts, and tips and tricks in each pack!
Our Adventure Pack Options
Beaks and Binoculars
Do you have a budding birder on your hands? The Beaks and Binoculars backpack is designed for avian enthusiasts, complete with binoculars, bird ID guides, bird song books and even a monocular with a cell phone adapter! We’ve included an “Adventure Log” so you can write down all of the feathered friends you encounter on your journey.
Bug Watch
For those that love the “creepy-crawlies”, be sure to check out the Bug Watch Backpack. This pack comes with a bug net, magnifying bug viewers, ID guides, hand lenses, and story books to enhance your outdoor time. “Good Trick Walking Stick” is a staff favorite!
Nature’s Palette
Move over, Monet! With Nature’s Palette, your aspiring artist can draw, paint, sketch, and color everything that inspires them. This pack includes watercolor postcards, a sketchbook, paints, crayons, colored pencils and more! When you have finished your creation, you get to keep the postcards and sketchbook!
Rock On!
This pack rocks…literally! Explore the 458 million year old Dells and surrounding area with this pack, and really get in touch with a piece of history! Included in this pack are hand lenses, a bag of fossils to inspect, a geological calendar, and a “Mohs Scale” for testing the hardness of different rocks and minerals.
