Outdoor School at The Crest
Registration is open for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Outdoor School!
Crest Community Workshops
The Crest is excited to announce the development of our new Community Workshops Program! We are cultivating a space where community members have the opportunity to guide fun and interesting learning experiences up at Willow-Witt Ranch.
If you’re interested in learning more about the possibilities of hosting a workshop please fill out our class proposal form so that we can co-create together!
We’re Hiring!
The Crest is hiring an Executive Director!
Support our mission of cultivating connection between people and nature by bringing your executive skills to The Crest.
Cultivating the connection between people and nature
The Crest is an educational non-profit organization based at Willow-Witt Ranch, in the mountains of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument east of Ashland, Oregon. Through self-guided tours, public events, school programs, and summer camps, we help visitors of all ages explore their roles and responsibilities in our dynamic local ecosystems.
Youth programs
YEAR-AROUND LEARNING, FUN
& ADVENTURE
We have a variety of programs for schools, community groups, and families to come and experience The Crest. Whether one night at our campground or summer day camps for school-age children, there’s plenty to explore, learn and enjoy.
Explore Willow-Witt Ranch from home!
Join our Education Coordinator for an interactive, fun and fact-filled journey through the forest, wetland and farm at Willow-Witt Ranch. Meet the birds, try a new recipe, learn from Beatrice (our most famous turtle) and more!
THE CREST
Events & activities
Event proceeds at Willow-Witt Ranch go to The Crest to help fund the non-profit organization and its programs. Featuring live music, farm dinners, open barn days and more. Come support a good cause and have a fun family-friendly time!
SOME HISTORY
About the land
We acknowledge that the Shasta, Upland Takelma, Latgawa and Athabaskan peoples stewarded these lands for millennia. We also acknowledge the intergenerational trauma caused by their forcible removal from their ancestral lands. The people whose ancestors lived on this land are now citizens of The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians, The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, or The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde.