25 LITTLE ADVENTURES. BIG MEMORIES.
The 25-Adventure Challenge
One mission per outing. Any order. No account, no required purchases, and no need for a screen on the trail.
Print the passport, choose a mission, and color the square together when you finish it. You can complete the challenge at local parks, historic sites, gardens or even in your own neighborhood.
Print and take it outside. Download the 25-adventure passport (PDF)
The 25 missions
- Visit a new neighborhood park
- Choose a short paved walk
- Have a no-trash picnic
- Find three different bridges or crossings
- Enjoy ten minutes of quiet nature watching
- Spot a waterfall from a safe viewpoint
- Listen to running water without touching it
- Draw a lake reflection
- Find a bridge with a story
- Watch clouds change for five minutes
- Listen for three bird calls
- Sketch two leaf shapes without picking leaves
- Observe an insect without touching it
- Compare the bark on four trees
- Look for wildlife signs without leaving trails
- Find a historic marker
- Spot patterns in a public garden
- Help navigate with a posted map
- Draw a mountain skyline
- Tell a three-part trail story
- Visit a town park you have never used
- Return to a favorite place in a different season
- Watch shadows move during a park visit
- Practice Leave No Trace
- Let the whole family choose a finale outing
How to make it work for different ages
- Ages 3 to 5: pick the senses missions, like listening to water or watching clouds, and let them color the square.
- Ages 6 to 9: let them choose the next mission and be the one who checks the map.
- Ages 10 to 14: hand them the planning: where to go, what to pack and which mission fits the place.
Where to find each kind of mission
- Waterfalls: Station Cove Falls, Falls Park on the Reedy, Wildcat Wayside
- Bridges with a story: Campbell's Covered Bridge, the Liberty Bridge at Falls Park
- Historic markers: Oconee Station, Stumphouse Tunnel, Table Rock Lakeside Trail
- Mountain skylines: Caesars Head Overlook, Table Rock Lakeside Trail
- Lake reflections: Lake Placid Trail, Table Rock Lakeside Trail
Celebrate the journey
Dates, sketches, small discoveries and family memories matter more than speed. Children may repeat a favorite place for a different mission.
Keep notes from each adventure. Family Field Journal