Welcome to Overland 2012

My favorite picture from the summer is one of my wife Liz hugging our daughter Cate in Santa Monica at the end of Cate’s American Challenge trip. What a moment for Cate—so proud, so confident, so happy!

As parents, we’re eager for our children to become independent, adventurous and accomplished. The key is finding the right settings—we want challenge and growth, but we also want safety and wholesomeness. Everything we do at Overland is dedicated to helping our students grow in these important ways, in settings and with people parents can trust.

As we head toward our 28th summer, I’m confident that we’re more successful than ever at reaching these goals, at delivering on this promise. And I have a picture to prove it.

Sincerely,

Tom Costley
Director

Cate and Liz Costley in Santa Monica at the end of Cate’s American Challenge

Tom, Cate, Luke and Liz Costley

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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.