High School Hut to Hut is a place‑based, design‑build program that engages Sonoma County high school students in planning and constructing small “wedge cabins” along the roughly 70‑mile Camino de Sonoma trail as a living laboratory for sustainability, land stewardship, and community connection. ​ In partnership with local high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) Engineering and Construction classes, the program involves youth in designing and building four small cabins that will serve as public and educational shelters for hikers, school groups, and community members. These simple structures provide overnight stays that keep people closely connected to the landscapes that sustain them. ​ Beyond teaching technical construction skills, High School Hut to Hut invites students to explore how the built environment shapes access to fundamental human needs: food, water, shelter, and mobility. Modern infrastructure can lock communities into unsustainable patterns that strain ecosystems and restrict healthier, more resilient choices, and the program challenges students to rethink those systems through hands‑on experimentation and intentional design. ​ By collaborating with Tribal partners, conservation organizations, and public agencies, the project weaves ecological awareness, cultural respect, and regenerative design into every step. Together, students and mentors ask what it would mean for infrastructure to support true balance between people and place. ​ Each hut becomes more than a structure; it is a teaching space and a living model of sustainability where participants can consider energy, materials, stewardship, and community well‑being in an embodied way. Through design work, dialogue, and direct experience on the land, students see how small‑scale building projects can spark broader conversations about resilience, equity, and shared responsibility to the natural world.