In 1905, Dr. Charles Robinson founded Camp Pok-O-Moonshine for boys […and then] in 1967 Camp MacCready for girls was created. In the 1970s, the two camps were merged together to become one co-ed camp named Pok-O-MacCready. Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center [PMOEC] was started in 1974, utilizing the extensive educational and residential facilities year-round. (PMOEC)
The PMOEC campus sits on 300 acres of the Adirondack Park, and the property is crisscrossed by more than 15 miles of cross-country skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and nature trails. The camp’s waterfront on Long Pond provides easy access to canoeing, kayaking, fishing, and is also used for the camp’s ecology classes. A perfect place for outdoor recreation and learning!
Each year more than 50 schools and groups bring students to the Outdoor Education Center. PMOEC also uses nearby 1812 Homestead, Lake Champlain, and Eastern High Peaks for certain events and activities. Several events open to the community also take place here each year.
You can contact PMOEC by phone (518) 963-7967 or email director@pmoec.org. Learn more by visiting their website www.pmoec.org. Or visit www.pokomac.com to learn more about the Pok-O-MacCready Camps.
Where is Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center?
The center is located at 1391 Reber Rd, Willsboro, NY 12996. Find it on the map below:
Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center Archive
If you’re curious, the following posts featured or mentioned Pok-O-MacCready since June 2011.
- Pok-O-Maccready: A Camp for All Seasons (STRICTLY BUSINESS)When Strictly Business visited Pok-O-MacCready Camps and the Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center on a sunny, late fall day, it was ...
- Underground Railroad Experience & Revolutionary War SimulationAfter last year’s successful Underground Railroad Experience, PMOEC is happy to announce two more historical adventures! Both of these community events will ...
- Pok-O-MacCready Campers Stretch into Summer at LCY&WRunning into Sarah Disney, Pok-O-MacCready’s Camp Director on a snowy, winter day outside Lake Champlain Yoga & Wellness is all ...
- CATS Grand Hike: Preparing for the TrekThere is only one week left until the Champlain Area Trails Grand Inn-to-Inn Hike on May 3! Are you ready? ...
- Upcoming Essex Events 3/30-4/6Learn about the events happening in and around Essex, NY! Check out the schedule below created from the Essex Calendar of Events to ...
- Upcoming Essex Events 11/17-11/24Every Sunday we update you with the events of the upcoming week with information gathered from the Essex Calendar of ...
- Pok-O-MacCready: Underground Railroad ExperienceUNDERGROUND RAILROAD EXPERIENCE Saturday, November 23rd starts promptly at 6:00 pm, ends at approximately 9:00 pm Cost: $5 per person. Ages 10+ welcome. Share in ...
- CATS Hamlet-to-Hamlet Hike Success, Future Plans, & Saturday Trail Project“Fabulous day!” barely describes Champlain Area Trails’ first Hamlet-to-Hamlet hike from Wadhams to Essex. About 60 people met at Dogwood ...
- Harvest Halloween FestivalIn the eyes of so many people, we are defined by the employment that we hold and for the past ...
- Summer Days at Pok-O-MacCready“5 weeks is a long time, and it has been that long since I last checked in from the front ...
- Pok-o-MacCready: It’s on Like Donkey Kong“Memorial Day weekend always is the beginning of the end for the PMOEC spring season. The Adirondack Scholarship group comes ...
- Eye of the Storm“There is an eerie calm at Pok-O these days. Only 15 kids are onsite right now and a day group ...
- Falling in LoveThe Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest entry, “Falling in Love” is not the story of a romance between two ...
- It Continues to Spring (or Sprung?)“Thunderstorms came. Yesterday, another notch on the post of ‘what defines spring’ was violently slashed as lightning dotted the turbulent ...
- Pok-O Yard Sale“It’s our last week of work project days for the spring season. Starting Monday we have day and overnight groups ...
- Nature- It’s All around Me“This past week was our busiest of the early season at PMOEC and, thus, I was able to spend more ...
- Time for One Breath, but No More!“We are in the midst of the type of week that we always want to have at PMOEC. On Monday ...
- Making Learning Natural: Here We Go!“Yes, I know; I missed a week. I am sure one of you are disappointed. But, the spring season was ...
- PMOEC Welcomes Krista!“The staff of PMOEC is starting to get back to work at Pok-O. Work projects that were left undone at ...
- Polar Bear in March? Oh yeah!“For three years I have seen the staff of PMOEC excitedly walk down to the pond every few days in ...
- The Ides of March at PMOEC“PMOEC has a topographical map. It is a beautiful scale version of Long Pond and the surrounding mountains and hills ...
- A Strong Snail“Yes things have truly slowed down to the pace of a snail- or so it may seem from an outsider’s ...
- A Toast to the Winter Season“Monday evening the PMOEC staff toasted the end of yet another successful season. We had spent the day doing staff ...
- Winter Break Camp and Sharp“As promised, the best stories come from our break camps. The youngest kids, those that are 5-7 are wonderful and ...
- Making Learning Natural: Where It All Begins“This week, the emphasis at PMOEC is not on our lecture series. This seems pretty obvious, but we try as ...
- Cabin Fever is Good!“My first experience at PMOEC was as a customer. Specifically, on a cold winter night in early 2009, I came ...
- Looking Home | Champlain Area TrailsStites McDaniel is the director of Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center and his experience in the outdoors prompted him to enter the Champlain Area Trails ...
- Mid-Winter (Is it Winter?) Blues?? Nah…“We waved goodbye to our last group in the month of January and soon after waved goodbye to the last ...
- Ramblings of a Tired Man“It’s Friday and everyone on the PMOEC staff has gone home except for me. They were beat, I am beat ...
- Cabin Fever Lecture SeriesVisit Pok-O-MacCready Events or call (518) 963-7967 for more info.
- Making Learning Natural: Advertise, Advertise, Advertise!“Many wheels are constantly in motion at PMOEC and, although last week the bulk of our attention was on the ...
- Making Learning Natural: St. MarcEvery school is an important client in the continued success of Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor Education Center. No client is less important ...
- Making Learning Natural: Ski Week“A great week of skiing and hiking is behind us. The annual Pok-O Ski Week, a collaborative effort between Pok-O-MacCready ...
- Home for the Holidays“The snow came and went yesterday, but there is no doubt that winter is here. We have completed our 2 ...
- Reflectinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WumPgSRIxg “Cutting wood. Housing renovations. Pasture maintenance. It is the time of year when we dedicate our full selves to work ...
- We Are Great Adopters!“The end of the fall season took a long time to truly finally happen, but no matter how you cut ...
- SPEAQ!“Are you concerned about my spelling? I do have a background as an English teacher, and I also have spell ...
- Planting a Seed“The week of GFA and Polybel passed. Our last two groups of the fall season have come and gone and ...
- Pie and the Sky: Pizza Slam and AstronomyWhat: Pie & the Sky: Pizza Slam & Astronomy Evening When: Friday November 18, 6 pm – 9 pm Where: Pok-O-MacCready Outdoor ...
- Underground Railroad ExperienceWhen: Friday, November 11th, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Where: Outdoor Education Center | Community Events Cost: $5 per person. All ...
- Making Learning Natural: GFA Week“Another GFA weekend is behind us. For those of you who have not worked at PMOEC, which I assume is ...
- Bittersweet Season“Yesterday I had a day off to make up for the extra weekend days I have worked this month. We ...
- NYSOEA Weekend 2011“Leaving a family that is full of love for a weekend in a motel room does not create excitement. And ...
- Coming and Going“Weird title, I know. I just wanted to emphasize what has come to PMOEC this fall and what is going ...