It depends on which camp you are applying to.
1) Camps that start in Hays, Kansas: Students can fly in to the Hays Airport. This is a small regional airport with flights going to Denver, CO and Salina, KS. If a student needs to arrive a day or two early in order to make flights work, no problem! We can make sure they are set up in the dorms for a small facilities usage fee, which would be applied to your CampDoc account. Our staff can pick them up at the beginning of camp, and make sure they get to the airport for their departure at the end.
2) Camps that start in Eugene, Oregon: Students can fly in to the Eugene Airport, which has regular flights to and from many major airports in the US. Our staff will be arriving in Eugene a day early to finish getting set up, and we can make sure students who need to arrive early will get picked up a the airport. These students would just stick with Camps staff until departing with respective instructors on when camp starts. This includes sleeping accommodations, which would likely be a hotel, or campground in or around Eugene.
3) Camps that start in Morrison, Colorado: Students can fly in to the Denver Airport, to be picked up by our camps staff, who will be arriving in the Denver/Morrison area the day before camp starts. Students flying in by themselves should arrive the day before camp starts. They will be able to stay with staff and other early-arrival students the night before, and travel to the start location at Dinosaur Ridge with staff.
4) Camps with international destinations: Arrival airports are specific to each program. Students will be met by staff at the designated airport on the first day of the program, and transported to a nearby hotel where all staff and students will stay prior to departure. (Early arrivals are acceptable, but no more than 24 hours early.) Students and staff will then depart together from this same airport to the destination country. When going back home, students will need to plan for departing flights that work with the logistical conditions of the respective camp. For questions about scheduling arrival and departure flights for international camps, please contact us directly at SternbergCamps@FHSU.edu.
Ecuador Wildlife Biology Camp – Denver International Airport
Field Paleontology: Australia – Los Angeles International Airport