Positive Energy Outdoors

Our adventure filled 2024 season is winding down successfully with our fun, educational, and active Adventure Club helping youth get outdoors after school Tuesday to Thursday.   We also enjoyed a successful 2024 Summer Day Camp season with 142 campers attending during the summer.  Portable climbing wall events were also popular.   Our adult and family programming that generates 90% of Positive Energy Outdoors’ revenue continues with bookings coming in daily for dogsledding, horse drawn sleigh rides, snowshoeing and fat tire bike rentals, and ice climbing.   We are anxious for colder weather and hope winter 24-25 is better than the last!

Local grants are more competitive and our youth outreach programs and scholarships fund needs additional donations.  

With your help, we would like to:  

Serve more deserving youth organizations and provide more scholarships in 2025($5000 to help with staff wages -our goal - everyone is paid $20/hour);  

Replace our 2004 -15 passenger van($24000 for a low mile 2019 van, we have found);  

Repair our skidloader needed for trail, snow removal, hay moving, and manure composting ($3500 for replacement tracks);

and replace some well loved climbing gear, pfds, and a few youth size kayaks...   ($2,000) 

Our annual fixed expenses rise each year and the care of our sled dogs and draft horses is a lifelong commitment.  At Positive Energy Outdoors, our animals have forever homes.  They pull and do what they love.  They retire with their team and the people who adore them.   While the cost of dog and horse food is highest we have seen, we will continue to provide that care no matter what happens in the world around us.  

Donors like you care about animals and outdoor experiences for children.  You know that Positive Energy Outdoors provides transformative experiences in nature for local families and visitors to our region.   

Positive Energy Outdoors path ahead is promising.  Your support helps us to continue uninterrupted despite the unknowns.  We hope more children, families and groups will experience the joy of dog sledding, will grin as they drive Hank and Henry, our draft horse team.  We hope our goal of serving more families will increase with continued access to transportation and scholarships for our programs.   Our long time goal to maintain and expand partnerships with schools and youth agencies remains.   We have exciting ideas how our unique Fredenberg Lake site will be used for programming in new and meaningful ways.

Your support helps make all of this possible.  

Thank you for donating to Positive Energy Outdoors.