YOUTH PARTNER CHALLENGE

The Youth Partner Challenge encourages youth to become good stewards of the land through hiking, service and having fun on public and conserved land.

The YPC program was established as a grant from the Polk County Community Foundation

Contact the SCLT Office today to receive your Youth Partner Challenge Passport and a bookmark

Complete 3 hikes in the Saluda Community area and 4 of your choice
- (Download your activity log here)
Complete 1 service project

THE COMPETITORS
Those who are 17 and under

(accompanied by their adult partner)

THE REWARD

Earn a SCLT embroidered patch and a Certificate of Completion once you have logged your 7 hikes and completed your approved Service Project!

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

More Information

Make sure to log your hikes in your passport or activity log (Blank activity log here)

Choose an approved Service Project. Explore some of the most beautiful trails in or near Saluda on conserved land.

Suggested Hikes

You can participate in guided hikes or hike on your own.

The following hikes or bike rides count as one of your 7 hikes:

Any SCLT led Walks in the Woods Hikes or Afterschool/Summer Hikes
Local hikes or bike rides with your adult partner on the following trails: Lazy Girl, Missing 40, Adawehi, Bell Park, Vaugh’s Creek, Little Bradley, Blue Wall, Palmetto Trail, Twin Lakes, Henry’s Nature Center, Ecusta Trail and Oklawaha

A class field trip to Carl Sandburg’s, Johnson Farm, Historic Saluda
Or 3 hikes of your choice with your adult partner, family, or school/community group.

Approved Service Projects

Pick-up litter at a trailhead and as you hike
Write 7 hiking etiquette rules and share them with a parent, friend or group
Make a poster about the 7 principles of Leave No Trace and explain them to your parent, friend or group

Cleaning signs along Henry's Nature Center, watering gardens there, donating a native plant to the HNC Gardens.

Write, draw and give a report to your parent, friend or group about your favorite native wildflower. Include how it can be protected.
Give a report to your parent, friend or group about poison ivy, draw picture and include how to avoid it
Participate in a SCLT work day with your adult partner
Any preapproved project on SCLT property

Trail Etiquette