Prepare your son for the experience of a lifetime. More than wilderness therapy, Frontier’s outdoor education has long been acknowledged as an amazing and effective way to help preteen and teen boys heal and reset life values and priorities. Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC serves young men 10-17 who are struggling academically or behaviorally and takes them out of their familiar environment and comfort zone to learn deep-standing life lessons that will help them flourish for a lifetime. Wilderness learning expeditions play a pivotal part in the program.
A unique alternative to traditional wilderness and “teen boot-camps”, the Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC program is based on experiential learning encounters for struggling boys, age 10-17, and is owned and operated by a devout Christian family that uses the natural adventure opportunities of northwest Wyoming to heal the troubled and wounded youth. Your son will experience pristine nature on his journey of restoration back to the family through principles of Faith and God’s creation. With access to a 50,000-acre cattle ranch, Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC will equip your son with dignity and self-respect as he experiences living off the grid with his own two hands.
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Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC helps strengthen your struggling teen boy through outdoor education with back-country wilderness expeditions. The Frontier is a school for troubled teens that helps push the boundaries of a boy’s knowledge and skills. Your son will be exposed to situations and provided the knowledge to overcome obstacles within himself and his environment. Your troubled teen will also learn things about ranch management and living the “simple” way of life.
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From our Base Camp on a working cattle ranch, in the high desert of Northwest Wyoming, to the tops of the Absaroka Mountain Range, your troubled son will begin to understand and appreciate the beauty of the great outdoors and develop a sense of awe that will help him explore the ideas of his place in this world.
The question of “why am I here” has many meanings when overlooking the valleys and across the sagebrush, away from family and poor influences. More than a wilderness therapy approach, at Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC the answers are found in the areas of God, Family, and Community.
As a safe place for boys with troubled relationships, we use the surrounding outdoor environment as a classroom where your son is taught to face daily challenges head-on, without excuses.
At other places boys who are disruptive often get a “time out,” Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC gives them a “time in” – time in the great outdoors, time in reflection, and time in communication with God.
Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC is, in itself, a recreational opportunity. Many such ranches, called “dude” ranches develop their activities on the ranch and cowboy lifestyle. More than wilderness therapy, Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC is an outdoor education, experiential encounter with nature set in a “cowboy” culture and tradition with beautiful mountain and desert panoramas. All activities include avenues in which youth will experience success, dignity, and gain confidence. Since ranches make their living outside, most activities are devoted to that environment. Some outside activities include zip-lining on the campus, geocaching, metal detecting, rockhounding, camping, hiking. Indoor group activities include a wide range of social interactions such as the use of the indoor gym, weightlifting, leather tooling, woodworking crafts, ping pong, pool, card, and board games, etc.
Spring is involved in outdoor learning about calving and getting ready for summer pasture with the annual branding and sharing the branding tradition with other ranches. This is by far the most favorite time of the year for the boys. Summer is filled with fishing, swimming, boating, and riding. Fall is getting ready for the cows to come home and harvesting. Horseback riding, mechanizing, and harvesting are part of the normal day. Sledding or tubing on the Sunlight mountain range is a favorite activity during the winter. Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC helps boys relax and enjoy the peace and quiet of hiking, fishing, and camping. The whole philosophy of Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC is dependent on these experiential learning encounters.
“Healing the Wounded Youth of Today’s Culture with the Love of Christ.” Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC is operated by a Christian family that utilizes authentic ranch experiences as a means to heal the troubled and wounded youth of today. Our school for troubled teens uses outdoor education to fulfill our mission. We hope that our family environment will help rebuild the self-respect and social guidance of the child and will enable him to be a morally confident contributing member of society. We believe that the ranch activities that are included in our program will educate the mind, strengthen the body, and dignify the spirit of the young men who are sent here. The program at Rocky Mountain Frontier, LLC is built to be a unique alternative to traditional methods of behavioral treatment. More than wilderness therapy, our outdoor education program helps teen boys reconnect with the natural world and establish a personal foundation that is rooted in Christian values and principles. Located in the mountains of Wyoming, our beautiful cattle ranch is home to restoring struggling boys and giving them hope for a bright future.
“I have known Matt Schneider for almost 4 years now. In October of 2015, I entrusted my most treasured gift, my 15-year-old son, to the care of Matt Schneider and the loving staff at his family’s male behavioral based programs at the ranch. Into the third year of Joseph’s time there, he graduated up to the specific care and tutelage made available at Matt’s Rocky Mountain Frontier Program…” Read More
“I was at Rocky Mountain Frontier for about a year and by the time I had left to go home, I felt like a part of the Schneider family. It really helped me learn to contribute to that family because I had not made an effort to assist my real family. The program taught me how to be a leader, and how to be level-headed and calm in bad situations…” Read More
“Rocky Mountain Frontier is an answer to prayer. Our 15-year-old son has struggled throughout his life behaviorally and emotionally. Rocky Mountain Frontier provided a challenging, loving, and faith-filled environment to help him grow. He participated in the program for a full year, and it was worth it!…” Read More
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