ODYSSEY
Challenge yourself at new heights and create lasting friendships with other incoming first-years.
Registration InformationChallenge yourself at new heights and create lasting friendships with other incoming first-years.
Registration InformationStep out of your comfort zone and onto our high ropes course. Odyssey groups will spend two nights at our Outdoor Education Center participating in our exhilarating aerial trekking activities.
Odyssey participants spend their nights sleeping in yurts and tents! Our yurts have bunkbeds with mattresses, and we use 6-person tents when at campgrounds.
All our trips offer a rafting component! You’ll enjoy a day on the Youghiogheny River with all your peers guided by Laurel Highlands.
Combination of tent camping & Yurts or Bunkhouses
6 days
Note: To register or view more details on the individual trips, you will be prompted to login using the University's login method. Please have your WVU username, password, and WVUID number ready.
Trip DateJune 22 - 27
Trip NameOdyssey 2A
Partnership: pre health
Trip DateJune 29 - July 4
Trip NameOdyssey 5B
Trip Date July 6 - 11
Trip NameOdyssey 8A
Trip Date July 13 - 18
Trip NameOdyssey 11A
Trip DateJuly 13 - 18
Trip NameOdyssey 11B
Trip DateJuly 20 - 25
Trip NameOdyssey 14B
Partnership: lgbtq+ and allies
Free Trip**
Trip Date July 27 - Aug 1
Trip NameOdyssey 16A
Partnership: eberly college
Trip Date July 27 - Aug 1
Trip NameOdyssey 17B
Trip DateAug 11 - 16 (Early Move-In)*
Trip NameOdyssey 21A
Trip DateAug 11 - 16 (Early Move-In)*
Trip NameOdyssey 22B
*Early move-in: Early move-in programs allow participants the option of placing their belongings in their residence hall room prior to their trip start. View more details on the FAQs page.
**Free Trip: Students who register and attend the trip may participate for free. Students who register and cancel or no-show to their trip will still be charged the $95 registration fee.
Participants on EXPLORE trips will enjoy a smaller group experience, more time in the great outdoors, and a sense of challenge and accomplishment, while visiting some of the most popular places in West Virginia.
Explore DetailsParticipants on QUEST trips have the opportunity to sample an exciting array of adventure activities from a central, basecamp location.
Quest Details