our campus and facilities

Echo Hill Outdoor School is located on the upper Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Echo Hill's 70-acre campus is situated near the heart of the 350-acre Bloomingneck Farm, a working Maryland Century Farm owned by the Harris family.

The campus consists of open fields, hardwood forests, freshwater marshes, and a mile of sandy beach. The property is abundant with wildlife and provides ideal outdoor laboratories for ecological studies. The Outdoor School also owns 172 acres of "The Big Marsh" which borders the campus. The Big Marsh is a freshwater shrub swamp protected by the Nature Conservancy.

The School's educational facilities include a barnyard, a recycling center, an organic garden, a Native American site, and a fleet of historic wooden Chesapeake work boats. Our extensive Adventure Challenge course features low and high elements and an Alpine Tower. The School also conducts classes and programs off campus in the towns of Rock Hall, Galena and Chestertown as well as the waters of the Chester and Sassafras rivers and the Still Pond Creek area of the upper bay. Our extended classrooms include the farms and farmland of the rural countryside and all the private landowners and merchants who regularly open their doors and hearts to our curious students.