Youth Programs
Fresh Air Fridays
Fresh Air Fridays is being offered as a month-long day program series and will rotate around KMTA communities. The program is a combination of afterschool, half day, and full days sessions based on the KPBSD calendar.
Registration now open!
Pathfinders
Many of our region’s historic corridors are preserved and enjoyed today as multi-use trails. Pathfinders empowers kids to build skills, have adventures, and create lasting connections to the KMTA via these trails across time.
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Coastal Connections
Back for 2025! During an exciting week-long day-based program, participants explore their local coastal ecosystem through a variety of adventure outings, science and art activities, and personal connections.
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Fresh Air Fridays- Registration Open!
For us here at KMTA, it’s been an amazing summer. With school back in session, it’s time to turn our attentions toward Fresh Air Fridays (FAF)- a kid and staff favorite that is all about fresh air and FUN! This program is offered across the KMTA region to local families with kids in first to fifth grade. FAF offers adventure, art, science, outdoor skill-building, and other activities with a goal to build community, foster pride of place, empower kids through skill-building, and support families with safe and supervised fun for their kids.
New for 2025 – 26
Fresh Air Thursdays!
This fall we will be doing Fresh Air Fridays in Seward, and Fresh Air Thursdays in Moose Pass. We decided one day a week just wasn’t enough!
Kids headed to middle school?
We are piloting an option this fall for our middle school students! We’ve set aside two Fridays for our teens to end their school week outside with friends.
Kinders in the spring
September and October programs will be open to kids in 1st through 5th grade. Kindergarteners will be welcome to join programs in the second half of the school year.
Tiered Pricing
One of our core values is providing accessible programs to our local communities. Disruptions to federal funding and the federal workforce have created unprecedented challenges for nonprofits like ours and the partners we work alongside. As we find our path forward, we need your help to ensure we can continue our work. Thank you in advance for supporting these programs at whatever level you are able.
FAF Schedule – September & October 2025
Thursdays- Moose Pass
Sept 4, 11, 18, 25 and Oct 2, 9, 16, 30: Afterschool (3:15 – 5:30)
Oct 23: In Service (9:00 – 4:00)
Fridays- Seward
Sept 5, 26, 3 and Oct 3: Afterschool (2:30 – 5:30)
Sept 12, Oct 12: Early Release (1:00 – 5:30)
Oct 10: In Service (9:00 – 4:00)
Fridays- Middle School
Sept 19: Afterschool (2:15 – 5:30)
Oct 17: Early Release (12:45 – 5:30)
Pathfinders
Travel through and across the Kenai Mountains – Turnagain Arm National Heritage Area’s mountainous terrain has always required creativity, fortitude, and skill. Today, many of these historic transportation corridors are preserved and enjoyed as multi-use trails that provide access to the region’s incredible natural beauty and resources. Our Pathfinders programs empower kids from across Southcentral Alaska to build skills, have adventures, and create lasting connections to the Heritage Area via these trails across time. We are excited to be partnering with Chugach National Forest, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai Watershed Forum, and Trout Unlimited to connect kids to some of the incredible stewards, stories, and projects of the KMTA region.
These two-day camps are open to KMTA area youth ages 6-11. Pathfinders programs are open to youth from all KMTA communities (Seward, Moose Pass, Cooper Landing, Hope, Whittier, Girdwood) and to children visiting family members who live in these communities.
Each camp has a “Basecamp” where we will meet our partner staff and begin and end the day’s adventure- these could be visitor centers, trailheads, or other recreation areas/facilities. Many camp sessions also have 1-2 “Meeting Points” where we will offer pick up & drop off in our van.
Thanks for a great summer of Pathfinders- we will be back with more great programs in 2026!
Discover. Move. Learn. Play.
Explore our local coastal ecosystem through a variety of adventure outings, science and art activities, and personal connections. Throughout the week, we will build community and broaden our understanding of the surrounding environment. Youth participants will have the opportunity to learn and play outside along with some focused time to connect to the places we visit through hands-on activities. We will explore the coast and experience the lands and waters of the KMTA NHA while working on team building, leadership, and resilience.
Coastal Connections Camp is open to middle schoolers. Participants must be at least 11 and entering 6th, 7th or 8th grade this upcoming school year.
Wow, what a summer! Thanks for joining us this year. We will be back with more Coastal Connections Camps in 2026!
