Aerie Experiences offers two and three night respite camp weekends tailored for children and teens. Participants will spend their nights in a camp or wilderness setting participating in prescriptive, traditional camp and back country activities. Participants will have the opportunity to complete our ropes course, play group games, fish, learn basic camp craft and make new friends.
Smithgall Woods Fish Camp
April 4th to April 6th.
Come join us for a weekend of friends, fishing and fellowship at Aerie Fish Camp. Our Fall weekend is at Smithgall Woods State Park were we have the entire fish camp. We will be camping and fishing on Dukes Creek, known as some of the best trout fishing in Georgia.
Our Fish Camp Adventure is a base camp experience full of opportunities for play, expression, and fun. Activities include fishing, archery, folk craft, and all of the usual Aerie shenanigan’s. Come spend time where quirky is cool and odd is a compliment.
Spring Paddle Adventure
May 2nd – May 4th
Join us for a weekend on the water. A sensory and adventure seekers delight. This experience caters itself to the development of friendships and regulation skills while getting dirty and smelly. No paddling experience necessary. Paddle logistics and destination determined by conditions at the time and group make up.
The program is intended to foster and develop friendship and social skills through encouragement and practice of effective communication, listening skills, group play, self advocacy, problem solving, and other life skills. These are taught through the utilization of metaphor that mirror situations encountered by participants in their daily life in a safe, fun, unique and structured setting. Course activities are used as a vehicle to increase confidence and competence, ultimately, increasing the child’s ability to participate more comfortably and successfully in social settings.
Ideal candidates for this program include teenagers navigating social or personal difficulties stemming from:
- Learning Disabilities
- Asperger’s
- High Functioning Autism
- Poor Self Concept
- Developmental Delays
- Underdeveloped/ Weakened Identity
- Disruption of Home (death, divorce)
- Social Awkwardness & Anxiety
The programs is designed to be fun, exciting, challenging, and to inspire enduring friendships and recreational pursuits. Program activities include:
- High ropes
- Low ropes course
- Adventure based counseling activities
- Expressive arts
- Fishing
- Camp fire and cooking
- Basic camp craft
- Storytelling
- Paddling
- Rock Climbing
- Primitive Skills
| Fall 2025 Smithgall Woods Fish Camp and Target Trip |
Application     |  Fall Fishing and Target Adventure October 24 – October 26 Our Fishing and Target Adventure at Smithgall Wood Fish Camp is an experience full of opportunities for play, expression, and fun. Activities include fishing, archery, folk craft, and all of the usual Aerie shenanigan’s. Come spend time where quirky is cool and odd is a compliment. We will camp. play and grow at the premier trout camp in the Georgia Park System. Connect with camp friends or make new friends in an informed environment where it rains rubber chickens and the streams run of Root Beer. All Inclusive Weekend: $600   |
| The Aerie Difference: 1:2 Staff to Camper Ratio. Over Half Our Staff Hold a Masters Degree or Higher. Our strength-based program is designed and sequenced to be fun, build confidence and competence through challenge, accomplishment and expression. The program is intended to foster and develop friendship and social skills through encouragement and practice of effective communication, listening skills, group play, self advocacy, problem solving, and other life skills. These are taught through the utilization of metaphor that mirror situations encountered by participants in their daily life in a safe, fun, unique and structured setting. Course activities are used as a vehicle to increase confidence and competence, ultimately, increasing the child’s ability to participate more comfortably and successfully in social settings. |
email: mdweneta@aerieexperiences.com
phone: 404-285-0467