The Overland Experience

Overland travels across the country in January to give presentations at the homes of alumni families. Please join us at a slideshow near you to learn more about Overland and our 2012 programs!

Overland offers summer programs spanning the outdoors, service, language and writing to students finishing 4th-12th grade. For 27 years we have given thousands of students the opportunity to explore the world in safe, supportive and wholesome groups – please join us!

Leader Profile

From Middletown, Delaware, Chris Speers is a senior at Bates College with a major in American history and a minor in education. He is a member of the Bates Outing Club, Cycling Club, Waterskiing Club, the Bates steel pan orchestra and is his class' representative to the President’s Advisory Committee.
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Program Spotlight

Few coastlines in the world can rival the magnificence of the beaches, bluffs and bays that stretch between Seattle and San Francisco. And few experiences can match the exhilaration of riding across the Golden Gate Bridge after four fantastic weeks of bicycling 1,000 miles along this breathtaking coastline.
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Our New Summer Adventures

It is 5 am, you are at 10,000 feet and starting to climb by moonlight and headlamp. For those who have never done it before, an alpine start is a surreal experience...

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Summer Programs

Overland Programs offers more than 40 different trips including New England summer camps and adventures for kids (4th graders, 5th graders and 6th graders), hiking trips for teens, teen bike trips in Europe and America, teen summer service programs, writing programs on the Williams college campus and field studies trips in the developing world. Overland has summer adventure trips and programs of all types, lengths, and locations. Our teen adventure travel trips and programs are for elementary school students, middle school students and high school students. We have wilderness adventures, bike adventures cross-country, and outdoor leadership programs spread across five continents. Overland is not simply a summer-long experience—it's a life experience with value and resonance that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single summer.

Elite Leaders

Bright, charismatic and accomplished, our leaders ensure the safety and well-being of every Overland student. We recruit our leaders from America's finest colleges and universities, meeting with hundreds of campus leaders across the the country—an effort that generates over 450 applications for just 80 new leadership positions. No other organization of our kind invests the resources that we do to put together the finest summer leadership staff possible.

Programs and Adventures Since 1984

Overland, also known as Overland Summers, Overland Programs, Overland Travel, and even as Overland Adventures, is proud to have ACA accredited summer programs which are held to the highest safety standards. Overland is not a teen tour or a typical summer camp, our trips and programs are carefully crafted and designed to challenge our students, who are always in small groups of no more than 12 students with superlative leadership.