Chewonki Foundation is a year-round, nonprofit environmental education center based on a 400-acre peninsula in mid-coast Maine. Along with the main campus, Chewonki has additional sites on Fourth Debsconeag Lake in northern Maine, on the West Branch of the Penobscot River and on several coastal islands. We offer a semester school for high school juniors, summer camps for boys and girls, wilderness expeditions for teens, outdoor education programs for K-12 school groups, a teen mentorship program, and traveling natural history programs. 

Our mission

“Chewonki inspires transformative growth, teaches appreciation and stewardship of the natural world, and challenges people to build thriving, sustainable communities throughout their lives.”