The Overland Experience

Overland offers summer programs spanning the outdoors, service, language, and writing. For 25 years we have given thousands of students the opportunity to explore the world in safe, supportive and wholesome groups – please join us!

Leader Profile

Katie Hagan grew up in North Brunswick, New Jersey, and graduated from Bates College as a Biochemistry major in 2008. At Bates, she was a member of the Outing Club, for which she led backpacking trips for incoming students.
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Program Spotlight

Few coastlines in the world can match the magnificence of the beaches, bluffs and bays that stretch between Seattle and San Francisco. And few experiences can match the exhilaration of riding your bicycle across the Golden Gate Bridge after four fantastic weeks of bicycling 1,000 miles of this breathtaking coastline.
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Thanks for another great summer!

The Overland office would like to thank everyone who made our 26th summer a great success! We’d like to acknowledge the generous support of our alumni families who opened their homes to us in the winter to conduct slideshows as well as the dozens of colleges and universities who assisted us in recruiting their talented students [...

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Summer and Semester Programs

Overland Programs offers more than 40 different trips including New England summer camps and hiking adventures for tweens (5th graders and 6th graders), hiking trips for teens, teen bike trips in Europe and America, and teen summer service programs. Whether you're looking for a language immersion program, summer programs abroad or service programs abroad, summer writing programs, environmental studies programs, teen adventure travel trips, a field studies program, or even a gap year semester in Spain, you're sure to find a program here which will create lasting memories, capture the imagination, and strengthen physical, emotional and social skills. Overland is not simply a summer or semester-long experience—it's a life experience with value and resonance that extends far beyond the boundaries of a young person's time with us.

Elite Leaders

Overland leaders are students and recent alumni from top colleges and universities, including many schools in the Ivy League and NESCAC as well as other elite schools across the country. Overland leaders are campus leaders, varsity athletes, sports captains, peer counselors, outdoor guides, and honors students. All leaders are First Aid, CPR, and lifeguard certified.

Programs and Adventures Since 1984

Overland Programs, also known as Overland Summers and even as Overland Adventures, is proud to have ACA accredited summer programs, teen summer camps, teen summer adventures, teen travel, teen summer programs, teenage camps, teen adventure programs, teen adventure trips, summer camp programs, summer programs abroad, language immersion courses abroad, teen bike trips, teen bicycle tours, teen summer service programs and New England camps which are held to the highest safety standards. Overland is not a teen tour or a summer camp, our trips and programs are carefully crafted and designed to challenge our students, who are always in small groups with superlative leadership.