Who We Are
The Boundary Waters Experience (BWX) develops strong people, imaginative leaders, and healthy communities through our wilderness adventure programs. BWX expeditions provide a safe place to share with one another, build strong community, engage with nature, explore faith, lead, and be empowered to make healthy life choices.
Every Trip is Unique
BWX Trail Guides help your group create intimate and trusting connections through the facilitation of unique group studies and conversations, sharing life stories, affirmation sessions, and high adventure, with space left open for appreciating the wilderness and having fun. We create an adventure route that fits your group, from the simplest trips to the most grand voyages.
Trip Destinations
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
While on the trail, groups will experience the 1.2 million acre treasure of pristine wilderness that is overflowing with over 1,200 lakes, rivers, and streams.
Superior Hiking Trail
The Superior Hiking Trail is a 277-mile footpath that follows the rocky ridgeline above Lake Superior on Minnesota’s North Shore from Duluth to the Canadian border.
Why Choose a BWX Trip?
Affordable and Easy
Our fully guided, equipped, and professionally led trips are less expensive than renting only equipment from outfitters. We do all the preparation, including food, equipment, permits, adventure plan, and content development, so you can fully live into the experience. Simply put, we provide everything you can think of as well as all of the things that you wouldn’t.
Safe, Organized & Well-Planned
Our trips are proven to be safe, well-organized, and well-planned. All of our Trail Guides are certified in Wilderness First Aid, equipped with satellite phones, and have redundancy in their safety protocols.
We equip you with the safest and finest professional gear by: Winona, Mountain Hardwear, MSR, Arc’Teryx, and Marmot. Just bring your own spirit of adventure!
More Time With Your Community
The BWX Trail Guide manages the logistics and details during the trip, (navigating, time management, cooking, equipment maintenance, etc) to free you up to spend more time doing what you are there to do – spend time with each other. As a leader you are able to concentrate on your community, not the challenges of wilderness travel.
Christian Content
The Boundary Waters Experience specializes in creating and facilitating meaningful Christian conversations.
Biblical Topic
Pick out a book or topic from the Bible that you would like to engage with and then your BWX Trail Guide will develop a curriculum for the daily conversations.
Christian Community Building
The BWX Christian Community Building experience is designed to create rich relationships with others that are trying to live like Jesus and in the ways of God.
Contemplation & Meditation
Trade distractions, civilization, and technology for thought, meditation, prayer, and a few good friends in the wilderness.
Creation & Environmental Stewardship
On BWX Creation Stewardship trips, campers have the opportunity to learn more about their Creator, the wilderness that they travel through, and how they can be better engage with Creation in their daily lives.
Leadership
The BWX Leadership experience is designed to cultivate people that lead in the ways and patterns that Christ modeled.
