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Eight Days in Maine! for boys ages 10-13
June 8-15, 2025

Our trip is full for The Maine Adventure as of 12/10/24
Let me know if you would like to be first on the waiting list.


Maine in 2025

We're returning to Maine for our 2025 adventure.

​Some of the highlights:
  • Kayaking on Frenchman Bay in Bar Harbor
  • Bicycling on the carriage trails of Acadia National Park
  • A guided tour of Acadia National Park
  • Sailing on a 100+ year old schooner in Casco Bay
  • Shopping in the LL Bean flagship store
  • Guided tour of the Maine Maritime Museum
  • Candlepin Bowling, a New England tradition
  • Cole Transportation Museum in Bangor, ME

We will spend a total of three nights in Portland and four in Bar Harbor.

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Sea kayaking on Frenchman Bay in 2024

We're back from the -
​Cherokee & The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Adventure
Click to check out the video recap!

This is Holden. He's been waiting to go on a MindStretch adventure for a few years. His dad, Andy Clack, has been one of our past leaders. Holden might have to wait a bit...but you don't have to!
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MindStretch Travel Adventures
incredible travel experiences for kids since 1978

We're not your typical summer camp!

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On top of Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park in 2019.
MindStretch Travel Adventures, LLC, a summer travel program for boys, offers unique travel experiences for boys ages 10 and older. Originally founded as Open Road Experiences in 1978, the program has been under the same leadership all this time. 

Over the years... boys and leaders have enjoyed travel throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and more. We're not exactly a summer camp though we do lots of summer camp kinds of activities - but we do it all while visiting some of the most breathtaking natural areas you can imagine.

While these trips take place during the summer and involve a lot of camping types of activities, this is not your typical summer camp. We experience the great outdoors and incredible national parks and scenic areas during the day, but at night we return to a comfortable hotel room and dinner in a sit-down restaurant. So no matter what the day brings, we always know we'll have a dry place to sleep and a nice dinner with friends where we don't have to wash the dishes.

Check out this website for the whole story.


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We had a wonderful mountain bike ride in Acadia National Park led by a volunteer park ranger.

Check out photos from our some of our recent trips including Cherokee and Maine in 2024, Colorado in 2023, and Europe in 2022.



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The group at Olympiapark in Munich in June 2022.

When I asked my son last year what he enjoyed the most (and he eventually told me about many, many things that happened, both big and small), he thought for a moment and said, "Our leaders. They were all just really great guys."  It was first and foremost for him. You and your colleagues really made an impression, and struck just the right balance for him - safety, warmth, encouragement, fun, humor, clarity of expectation, firmness... all of it was spot on for him, and I thank you.  From a parent after the 2017 North Carolina Mountains trip

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