Upcoming Events
2025 Wilderness First Responder Course
Princeton-Blairstown Center is pleased to again host a 7-day Wilderness First Responder certification course! It will be taught by Blue Mountain Medic with the WMA course curriculum.
WFR is the definitive wilderness course in medical training, leadership, and critical thinking for outdoor, low-resource, and remote professionals and leaders. Students’ successful completion of the course will result in WFR certification through Wilderness Medical Associates, International. The website for more information on the class is: https://www.wildmed.com/course-type/wilderness-first-responder/
The program is the ideal medical training for leaders in remote areas including outdoor educators, guides, military, professional search and rescue teams, researchers, and those involved in disaster relief. The curriculum is comprehensive and practical. It includes the essential principles and skills required to assess and manage medical problems in isolated and extreme environments for days and weeks if necessary.
Room and Board:
Lodging in heated rustic cabins with with separate modern washhouses. Please bring your own linens or sleeping bag/toiletries. We can accommodate vegetarian, gluten-free, and other food allergies. Dietary restrictions need to be known before class begins. Lodging is available for the night before the class begins.
Registration Information:
Early bird extended– Register and pay by February 21, 2025
$850 onsite (lodging, meals and course). $750 commuting (class and lunch).
After February 21, the course fee increases to $900 for onsite and $800 for commuting students.
Last day to pay and register is Friday, March 7th if space is available..
To be placed on the registration list, or for registration or course questions, please contact:
Patricia Karl, Operations Manager
908-362-6765 ext. 1
pkarl@princetonblairstown.org
Girls’ Adventure & Leadership Weekend
Join other girls (ages 11-14) for a weekend of fun while building leadership skills at our beautiful 268-acre Blairstown Campus located near the Delaware Water Gap National Recreational Area in New Jersey. Learn to build your confidence, overcome your fears, take healthy risks, work cooperatively, and creatively solve problems as a team while you complete our challenge course elements, successfully navigate high ropes elements, or rappel down a 35-foot dam!
2024 Woodcutters Volunteer Day
This annual tradition of setting up the PBC Campus for winter continues!
This one-day volunteer event asks participants to pitch in to complete winter prep tasks and restore the property after a full slate of fall programming. Volunteer spots are limited, and pre-registration will be required.
2024 Evening at Bass Lake
Please join us for the inaugural launch of An Evening at Bass Lake, where you can enjoy the beauty and tranquility of the Blairstown Campus, while celebrating our local community with food, drinks and music. This fundraising event will support our newest environmental and STEM education program, Venture Out.
2024 Links to Youth Golf Outing
The Princeton-Blairstown Center's Board of Trustees, Advisory Council, and Golf Committee are pleased to host the 2024 Annual Links to Youth Golf Outing at Fox Hollow Golf Club in Branchburg, New Jersey. A full day of recreation, dining, and entertainment, this successful fundraising event draws approximately 100 executives from corporations and non-profits in the tri-state area. The event includes range, lunch, 18 holes of golf, and post-tournament cocktails and dinner, allowing ample time to relax with colleagues and clients. Funds raised from the event will benefit the Princeton-Blairstown Center's innovative Summer Bridge Program for young people from historically marginalized communities.
2024 Soirée Under the Stars
Welcome back to the Soirée Under the Stars! Happening on May 3, 2024, at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, NJ, this benefit evening features food, drink, awards, and fun! All funds raised from this event support the Center's award-winning Summer Bridge Program which provides hundreds of students from historically marginalized communities with quality summer programming designed to combat summer learning loss with engaging, hands-on curriculum focused on literacy, SEL, STEM, and service learning as well as unforgettable outdoor experiences such as canoeing, kayaking, swimming, high- and low- ropes course adventures, and roasting s'mores over campfires.