Camp McDowell: McDowell Environmental Center

Share your passion for the outdoors with students from all across the Southeast! Join our enthusiastic, fun, and friendly team today!

Share our 1,140 acres of forests, streams, waterfalls, and canyons in northwest Alabama with groups of students from all over the South. Work with the students to foster a sense of community as well as an appreciation, understanding, and responsibility for the environment. The students, mostly grades 3 - 8, come from a variety of backgrounds and visit our Center for two, three or four-day programs

Located near the Bankhead National Forest in beautiful northwest Alabama. We are located on 1,200 acres which includes sandstone canyons, creeks and waterfalls, and forests full of biodiversity.