Whether you’re tracking wildlife or walking paths carved by history, Curio Camp Studio gives you the keys to unlock America’s greatest treasures.
Adventure is calling—are you ready to explore?
Curio Camp Studio
Discover Your Own Backyard
At Curio Camp Studio, we believe that the world’s most breathtaking wonders aren’t found on a screen—they’re waiting in our national parks and public lands. We create intentional educational products and tools designed to transform every outdoor excursion into a rich, immersive experience for explorers of all ages.
Mission
We view our public lands as giant, living museums. Our mission is to bridge the gap between "tourist" and steward by providing the resources needed to understand and protect our ancient forests, towering mountains, and vibrant histories.
Honoring the First Stewards
True exploration begins with understanding history. Our products go beyond the scenery to highlight the Indigenous peoples who have stewarded and shaped these landscapes for millennia. By learning from the original caretakers of the land, we gain a deeper respect for the vibrant cultures and sustainable traditions that keep the wilderness truly wild.
What We Offer
For Kids
Tools that turn a hike into a discovery mission, fostering a lifelong love for wildlife and conservation.
For Grown-Ups
Deep-dive guides and resources that unpack the cultural and ecological stories of the land.
For the Future
A focus on sustainable exploration to ensure the wilderness remains a treasure for generations to come.
Our Story
Elizabeth & Alli
Founders - Our Origin storyElizabeth and Alli have known each other for decades, growing up in Spokane, WA together.
Their love for nature and the outdoors always bonded them, but they were deeply connected through their mutual love for the camp they attended from childhood through college, where they were both counselors together.
When Elizabeth started working on a book about exploring the national parks and public lands with her son, she realized there was a gap in tools to not only explore the parks with a distracted kid but also to engage in deeper conversations about the land and its original peoples.
Elizabeth reached out to Alli to see if there might be a way to create tools that help keep kids engaged in the outdoors, foster a sense of responsibility through connecting with nature, and to learn about not just the lands but the peoples who stewarded them for millennia. This proposition led Alli immediately to making it a game—what better way to make learning fun!
It began with a card deck, but very quickly it became more. Stay tuned as we launch the card deck and for more content and products for adventurous and conscientious families.
Alli Depuy
Head of explorationAlli Depuy leads up our education and curriculum for Curio Camp. She loves creating ways to make learning fun. In fact, she says it’s the “candy” of her work.
She is a seasoned educator and curriculum designer with 23 years of experience. Her career began as an art educator in both traditional and informal settings. Alli identified a critical need for educational programs within impact-driven organizations, leading her to co-found Inspired Classroom in 2014, from where Curio Camp stems. Inspired Classroom builds, delivers, and facilitates exceptional educational content, connecting people through our unique delivery solutions and interactive distance learning. At IC, connecting is learning, and the world becomes the classroom.
Alli lives in Missoula, MT with her husband and where her two grown daughters call home. She is most at home walking on trails, skiing down slopes, and doing whatever activity the season calls for.
Elizabeth Doerr
Lead StorytellerElizabeth Doerr helps tell our story and showcase all the cool stuff we have going on through writing, editing, and content creation. And of course she helps Alli design our products as well.
Elizabeth is a writer, podcaster, community organizer, mother, and small business owner whose work sits at the intersection of climate justice, resilience, and place. She is the host of the podcast Charm of the Wilderness, which explores climate justice through U.S. national parks (which she also writes about on Substack). She is working on a book about this journey through the national parks. She also writes the popular Cramming for the Apocalypse Substack and hosts the Cramming podcast about the intersection of climate justice and disaster preparedness.
Elizabeth is also the founder of social impact communications firm Doerr&Co and co-founder of the writer-mom community Scribente Maternum. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and son where they love to adventure off to all the incredible places the Pacific Northwest has to offer.
Learn More
Alli joined Elizabeth on her podcast Charm of the Wilderness not only to talk about outdoor education, but also to introduce Curio Camp and the card deck we have coming down the line.
Get to know Alli, Elizabeth, and all about this project on that episode.
Help Shape Our Products
Are you an adventuring family? Do you plan to visit a National Park, State Park, or other public lands with your family in the next several months?
We are offering several families the opportunity to beta-test our first product—a card deck for conscientious explorers! Complete the form below and we’ll be in touch when we’re ready to send them out to families!