Grand Canyon Youth

Grand Canyon Youth GCY offers educational outdoor expeditions that connect young people typically ages 10 - 19 to the transformative power of the rivers canyons of the Southwest. GCY has served almost 12,000 youth in the 25 years since its founding in 1998. Expeditions typically run from March through October, take place on six sections of river in Utah Arizona including Grand Canyon, and range from 1 - 18 days long. The GCY long-time warehouse office are located in Flagstaff, AZ, purchased in early 2020 to create a permanent home for our programs. In 2020, all expeditions were cancelled due to the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic to ensure the safety of youth, fieldstaff, staff coordinators. In 2019 the last full year of operations prior to the pandemic, GCY facilitated 76 outdoor education expeditions river and land, serving a record 1,093 youth participants from across the country, who spent 4,751 days in the outdoors on a variety of expeditions ranging from 1 to 12 days long average trip 4 days long. 2021 was a rebuilding year while pandemic continued below