Retreats & Outdoor Experiences

Retreats & Outdoor Experiences for Cancer Survivors

Live by Living

303-808-2339

Live By Living offers free activities for cancer survivors and caregivers, connecting people with nature and each other. The programs help you:

Overcome cancer-related challenges like anxiety, depression, chemo-brain and fatigue
Find solace in the beauty of nature
Connect through community

The variety of programs offered includes the following:

Walk Into Wellness - A walking-based fitness and social program serves as a gentle reintroduction for those just finishing treatment or who haven’t exercised in a while.
Hike Into Health - A hiking-based fitness and social program takes participants on trails of varying difficulty and into the aerobic zone.
Cancer to 14K - In this 10-week hiking-based conditioning program, you and your fellow survivors/caregivers train to either climb a 14,000’ peak or hike 14,000 steps (about 6 miles) to a mountain lake. Open to survivors and caregivers. Hikes start off relatively easy and get more difficult each week.
Survivor-Caregiver Retreats - Three days that will change your life for the better. Get immersed in nature, make new friends, challenge yourself physically, and find new strength. Retreats are held in Tenth Mountain “huts”, YMCA cabins, and private residences. This is a chance to unplug from daily life and immerse yourself in the beauty of nature. Make new friends who “get it.” Eat gourmet, cancer-fighting food, challenge yourself physically, and gain new strength in facing life’s challenges.
Online Programs

Free online classes including mindfulness, Pilates, and strength training.

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Epic Experience

5690 Webster Street - Suite 100B
Arvada, CO 80002

PO Box 753
Arvada CO 80001

info@epicexperience.org

“Cancer Survivorship is more than follow-up appointments, blood tests, and scans; it's about living life to the fullest beyond cancer. Epic Experience empowers adult cancer survivors to do just that through a combination of adventure, community, and virtual programming.”

“Epic Experience’s pinnacle program is a free weeklong adventure camp in the Colorado Rockies. Throughout the week, as participants challenge themselves physically, find community with other survivors, and talk through fears and worries, they gain hope and return home with tools and support to help them live and thrive beyond cancer.”

“In addition to camp, Epic Experience offers one-day regional meet-ups in various US cities, hosts the Campfires of Hope: Living Beyond Cancer podcast, and provides free virtual low-impact exercise classes to the cancer community. Lastly, Epic Experience’s newest venture brings the great outdoors into cancer centers with its innovative virtual reality program, ThriveVR.”

The eight values that define an epic experience are adventure, community, hope, growth, wellness, story, survivorship and partnership.

Cancer Camp for Adults - Epic Experience

Domus Pacis Family Respite

Domus Pacis

619 Main Street

Frisco, CO 80443

Domus Pacis

PO Box 4424

Frisco, CO 80443

970-455-8928

Email: info@domuspacis.org

“The mission of Domus Pacis is to offer individuals, who are on a challenging medical journey, an environment that encourages interaction with other family members and caregivers in a comfortable and peaceful surrounding.”

“It is our belief that by providing a carefree family respite, a much-needed harmony begins to flourish. Healing begins on many levels within all participants. Given the time-consuming nature of cancer treatment, the commitment to organizing a family get-away may be a low priority. Most of us are unsure about traveling with an ailing loved one. The additional financial stress may not allow most families to even dream that getting away has any possibility. Domus Pacis can help make that dream a reality.”

To be eligible for the program, the nominee:

must be referred by a healthcare or psychosocial professional;.

must be a diagnosed cancer patient of any age or a patient in palliative or hospice care with a non-cancer diagnosis;

must be physically able to handle travel and a high elevation environment;

must be accompanied by a spouse, significant other, sibling, parent or caregiver.

LEARN MORE: About | Domus Pacis

Contact CGCA for more info:

303-506-7014

support@gyncancercolorado.org

Camp Māk-A-Dream
P.O. Box 1450
Missoula, Montana 59806

406-549-5987

“Camp Mak-A-Dream empowers survivors and their families to live with and beyond cancer through life-changing Montana experiences where they strengthen life skills, gain resilience and develop lasting relationships.”

Camp Māk-A-Dream — Live With. Live Beyond.

Adventure after Cancer

“There are an incredible number of people and organizations out there bringing renewed life or adventure (or both!) to those diagnosed with and affected by cancer. Through donations and support, many of these organizations provide FREE cancer retreats for patients and survivors.”

https://adventureaftercancer.net/

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First Descents

621 Kalamath Street – Suite 175

Denver, CO 80204

303-945-2490

Email: info@firstdescents.org

First Descents provides life-changing outdoor adventures for young adults (diagnosed with cancer or MS between the ages of 15 and 39 and currently between the ages of 18 and 45) “living with and surviving cancer and other serious health conditions, and those in service to them. Our service demographic includes Oncology, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), MS/Oncology Healthcare Workers (between the ages of 18 and 45), and MS/Oncology Caregivers (between the ages of 18 and 45).”

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COLORADO CANCER CAMPS AND RETREATS

The following site provides contact information for multiple camps.