California Survival School
California's Premier Outdoor Survival School!
With decades of experience in both primitive and modern wilderness survival techniques, California Survival School’s expert instructors are ready to help you escape to the great outdoors for unforgettable adventures mastering lifesaving survival skills.
California Survival School operates on a year-round, all-weather basis and is proud to be the largest outdoor survival school in the Golden State. Our activity sites span across California and beyond and each offers a wide range of survival training opportunities, from single-day survival skills clinics to extended multi-day survival trips for those looking for more in-depth survival training.
California Survival School’s wide range of wilderness survival training options include:
Core Survival Skills Adventure Clinics
Primitive wilderness tactics to handle shelter, water, fire, & food in a wilderness survival situation.
Ancient Survival Tools and Traps
Learn the art of creating stone blades, natural rope, coal-burned tools, and primitive glues used to produce everything from friction fire to hunting traps.
5 Day Grand Canyon Desert Survival Adventures
Explore primitive desert living techniques in the ancient heart of the Grand Canyon.
5 Day Primitive Island Survival Expeditions
Learn to master traditional island living skills on our exclusive Hawaiian primitive adventure.
Team building Adventures
Innovative wilderness team-building adventures
WilderSkills™ Youth Primitive Skills Summer Camps
Primitive survival & nature awareness summer camp for kids ages 10-17.
Private Wilderness Survival Events
Completely customized survival training & trips.
Core Survival Skills Clinic
Step back in time with us and spend a day outdoors learning the ancient skills and wilderness wisdom that our ancestors used to meet their basic living needs of shelter, water, fire & food on a daily basis.
Ancient Artisans Survival Clinic
Take your survival skills to the next level! Our Ancient Artisans clinic will give you a working knowledge of the ancient techniques that transform mere survival into a sustainable outdoor existence.
