Outward Bound

Outward Bound’s Gap Year programs in the USA offer transformative, outdoor-based learning experiences that spark life-long growth through challenge. Rooted in 60+ years of expertise, these expeditions help students build confidence, curiosity, and essential skills to thrive such as leadership, resilience, and communication. Participants engage in month or semester-long journeys - domestic or international - across mountains, rivers, deserts, or oceans. Each program is a powerful adventure designed to broaden worldviews and unlock purpose. Whether earning academic credit or taking a break before college or career, students emerge with deeper self-awareness and stronger connections to themselves, others, and the natural world. Accredited, scholarship-supported, and eligible for college savings plans, Outward Bound Gap Year expeditions are more than time off, they're time well spent.

Learn more at: www.outwardbound.org/gap-year