Join Scott and Carly Creley for our annual trip to Sequoia National Park from July 15-19, 2024. You will immerse yourself in art, science, and writing classes during a week long visit. We will stay at Wolverton Campground, an exclusive location near the General Sherman tree that is only open to volunteers. The artwork that you produce may be used by National Park Service. Email carlycreley@gmail.com to apply. Find out about future trips by joining our mailing list.
We watch bears, hike to see marmots and the world’s largest tree, help with park maintenance and 
meadow restoration, and reflect on our explorations in painting and writing. The work you produce may be used in media published by the national parks, and constitutes the bulk of your volunteerism. One of the most exciting aspects of the trip is that we get to 
stay in the Wolverton volunteer campground, which operated as a boyscout camp from approximately 1939 until 1975. Camp Wolverton’s history goes back much farther than that though. Near the river, you can find a grinding mortar from the Native Americans who used the area. Beginning in 1939, Wolverton was used as a summer camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that helped pull the U.S. out of the Great Depression. From 1942-1945, during World War II, Wolverton and other CCC camps housed soldiers for summer training, rest, and recuperation. Conscientious objectors, primarily Mennonites, may have used Wolverton as a base for National Park construction and maintenance projects as well. For further reading, campwolverton.com has an exceptional history of Camp Wolverton.
