Tenderfoot Learning Lab, Ohio

At our roots, we are a learning lab for students to learn how to live a sustainable life within their chosen study and life path. Your stay here will help support our mission of preparing students for life beyond college, teaching them to be self-reliant critical thinkers who understand the ripple effects of their decisions in their local and global communities.

Learn more about this land:

Enjoy camping in a deciduous forest canopy opening that is tucked into the bank of a holler.   A primitive campsite site with tent pad, fire ring, and picnic table will allow you to forget about the world outside of your camp. 

Ash Cave is within 30 minutes.

Zaleski state park is a 22 minute drive.

Attractions UNDER 10 minutes away:

- Fox Lake  - bass fishing and birdwatching 

- Waterloo Wilderness Area - hiking and wild turkey hunting 

-Athens Ohio - many great attractions including our world famous breweries (yes, plural)

-Hockhocking Adena  Bikeway - A 21 mile rail to trail paved footpath between Nelsonville and Athens

-Wayne National Forest Headquarters -  A patchwork of public land that covers over a quarter million acres of Appalachian foothills 

We are located 22 miles from Hocking Hills State Park

We can accommodate trailer parking with a pull around driveway for all the Hocking Hills ATV trails nearby. No riding on site.