Organization
Family Adventure Squad

Family Adventure Squad is a team of Bay Area moms who plan and guide outdoor adventures for families, including families with babies and toddlers: hikes, camping, tidepooling and more. We handle the planning and the guiding, so families can just show up and enjoy nature together.

Our seasonal nature program, Toddle Dawdle + Forest Explorers, is for infants to early elementary kids and their grown-ups. Sessions bring circle time, songs, stories, short hikes and sensory play: climbing, building stick forts, looking for mushrooms, lichens and critters, and learning to care for the places we visit. A Parent Circle gives grown-ups their own time to talk and learn. Sessions run twice a month through the fall and spring seasons, at different parks and open spaces around the Bay.

We also organize regular day and weekend trips around the Bay Area: hikes to waterfalls and old-growth redwoods, tidepooling and monarch butterfly walks on the coast, and family camping weekends such as Pinnacles in the spring, plus kayaking, sailing, caving and horseback riding outings. Many trips include a kids’ scavenger hunt, crafts or a hands-on science activity, and often end with a group meal or a beach picnic. Kids from babies to tweens join.