OMSI - Hancock Field Station Reviews

I was here when I was in grade school and it has been an experience that I have carried with me throughout my entire life.

Amazing Staff! Lovely site and out of this world food. The cooks are amazing

Went there for OMSI galaxy adventures for 5 days. Councilors and other staff where professional but fun. Plus it's beautiful. I recommend this place and galaxy adventures camp.

37 years later, still one of my life's best experiences.

OMSI offers outdoor school, summer camps and family weekends at this camp in the middle of the Clarno Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds. Our family has attended the Memorial Day Weekend Camp twice and have been thrilled each time. Offering hikes of different lengths, difficulties and themes along with interest groups in reptiles and amphibians, rock climbing, skulls skins and bones, lapidary, birds of prey, early Oregon skills, astronomy, geology, fossils, plant and animal adaptations, pictographs and survival there is much to learn, explore and enjoy. Specific offerings changed some in the nine years between our visits, but the high quality of the program is consistent.

I went here for a field trip and the guides/counslers were kind and very informative! Had an amazing time

OMSI outdoor science school located within John Day Fossil Beds - Clarno Unit.

A summer camp that offers overnight, 3 day and 5 day customized field study education programs for grades 2-12 from late May to early Sept.

Students led by professional OMSI educators, in groups of 15, on 5-hour Field Study lessons such as Archaeology/Cultural History, Arid Lands Ecology, Fossils in Fossil, Geology/Paleontology and more.

There's also a 1.5 hour in Interest Group activities engaging students in science subjects such as Ethnobotany, Fossil Study, Rocks and Minerals, etc.

I went here 30 years ago as part of an elementary school field trip and the memory has vividly stuck with me ever since. So much to see and learn. A wonderful setting and climate for a multi-day education camp. Professional and dedicated staff. It is an extra special treat for children who have never experienced the high desert.

It was awesome! My school went there and everyone had a huge blast. The instructors were so kind, fun, considerate, and they made learning interesting. The food there was really good, the cabins were clean, and the bathrooms were so nice. The cabins had large bunk beds and had a heater. I would definitely go there again.