General Info

Project U.S.E. is a private, nonprofit educational corporation that provides a wide range of adventure education services to more than 200 public and private schools, colleges, youth programs, community organizations and corporations. Project U.S.E. creates model programs that address, through the power of experiential education, social, recreational, educational, economic and environmental issues. Many of its courses are conducted at its Wildcat Mountain Wilderness Center located in Hewitt, N.J., in Passaic County. The center is in a primitive area and is used for a variety of courses, ranging from one-day team building events to seven-day backcountry expeditions. Project U.S.E. also conducts programs at Genesis Farm, a community-supported organic garden in Blairstown, N.J., in Warren County. The programs are custom designed and may include low ropes course events, cooperative learning games, organic gardening, wild edible plants, flora and fauna identification, Native American celebrations and creative expression activities.