Welcome to BigPig Outdoors
Smoky Mountain Bushcraft & Survival School
Mindset, skills, gear.
Training wilderness confidence from a lifetime of experience
BigPig Outdoors offers world class instruction in bushcraft, survival and outdoor living skills. Located on 1,400+ acres of the Chilhowee Mountain range in the Smokies, our training site is ecologically diverse, beautiful, and challenging.
Our instructors are outdoor professionals with a lifetime of experience, giving you the knowledge, skills, and ability to survive an outdoor emergency, become more self-reliant, or just enhance your outdoor adventures.
Life and field tested gear. Life saving resources, and an award winning search & rescue team.
Course Categories
Wilderness Survival
When the going gets tough do you have the skills and knowledge to survive a wilderness emergency? By combining high quality skills instruction and reality based scenario training, BigPig Outdoors guarantees you will own the skills and have the confidence to survive a wilderness emergency.
Bushcraft
Our bushcraft classes cover a range of topics and are great for beginners and experts alike. By blending modern and primitive skills, BigPig Outdoors gives you the knowledge, skills, and ability to become more self-reliant, or just enhance your outdoor adventures.
Wilderness Medicine
Designed for backpackers, trail runners, trip leaders or anyone who enjoys the outdoors, our Wilderness Medicine courses will provide you the skills to assess and treat both common and life-threatening injuries. Wilderness Medicine courses are critical to anyone spending time in the backcountry.
Community Preparedness & Homesteading
Severe weather events, extended power outages, wildfires. Unfortunately these events occur more often than we would like. Our Community Preparedness courses provide community leaders and citizens alike the knowledge and consideration to prepare for these events.
Outdoor Recreation
Looking to get into outdoor adventures? We offer a variety of classes from basic backpacking to off trail adventures as well as other critical skills for recreating in the outdoors.
Forest School
Coming soon…
Search & Rescue
Want to learn or enhance your wilderness SAR skills? These courses are for SAR Teams or individuals wishing to learn SAR skills. Courses cover a range of topics from Lost Person Behavior, Technical Rescue and Swiftwater Rescue. All classes taught by professional SAR team members.
