The Overland Experience

Overland offers 43 carefully crafted outdoors, service, language immersion, writing, environmental studies, field studies and gap year programs for 10 to 19 year olds. Each program has a clearly defined goal: hike to the summit of a mountain peak, bike a coast, reach out to a community in need, master another language, improve your writing skills, connect with a culture. Add exceptional leaders and small, supportive groups, and an experience of unsurpassed quality results for our students.

Overland groups are small, with no more than 12 students or fewer than two leaders. Our small groups create spirited, close-working teams, allowing students to thrive in an environment of friendship and fun as they learn from their leaders and discover their own strengths through their accomplishments. Carefully selected and prepared, Overland's leaders are bright, dynamic and accomplished individuals who serve as powerful role models for their students. Our leaders motivate and inspire while providing 24-hour-a-day leadership of an unfailingly-high standard.

At its heart, this is the Overland experience: a small group of students with inspiring leadership, engaged in a carefully crafted challenge that captures their imagination, stretches their abilities and strengthens their bonds with each other. We place a premium on selflessness, consideration for others and teamwork. In so doing, we catalyze in our students an understanding of the world beyond themselves, beyond their own needs and wants—and we do this while showing them how beautiful and exciting, how full of promise the world is.  Overland is not simply a summer experience—it's a life experience with value and resonance that extends far beyond the boundaries of a single summer. 

“I expect excellence in my children and excellence in the programs that I choose for them. Overland is one of the very few programs with which I've been completely satisfied.” Jennie Kim, Manhattan Beach, California