Outdoor Education

Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) has had a long-standing commitment to provide students with outdoor education experiences. We strongly believe in the importance of connecting with our surroundings and the learning that occurs while in our natural environment. We are fortunate to have many schools with beautiful outdoor spaces for all students to use daily and many of our educators provide year-round outdoor experiences for our students.

Coming soon: Outdoor Education and Indigenous Centre

Please see the January 30, 2026 announcement of the TLDSB Outdoor Education and Indigenous Centre.

The Grade 6 experience

Located in Bracebridge, Camp Muskoka is the place where TLDSB Grade 6 students attend an overnight, curriculum-based outdoor experience. Camp Muskoka is a year-round outdoor education facility that has focused their programming on making connections between the curriculum and nature, while helping students develop greater connections with their peers through leadership and team building activities.

Activities include:

  • Archery
  • Canadian resource Scramble
  • Courier des bois
  • Forest ecology hike
  • Geology rocks
  • Green exploration
  • Low ropes
  • Orienteering
  • Predator prey
  • Survival fire building
  • Survival shelter building
  • Water filter challenge

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Summer break information

Beginning the week of July 6, the TLDSB Lindsay Education Centre is open to the public Monday to Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Muskoka Education Centre is closed to the public over the break.

All school buildings will be closed to the public for the summer break beginning Monday, July 6, reopening on Tuesday, September 1.

The first day of school for both elementary and secondary students is Tuesday, September 8. Note, Kindergarten students will have a staggered start.

See more detail on the summer break 2026 information news post about available services over the summer break.