[1] Students are the given opportunities to participate in their classes by making things such as apple cider, candles, funnel cake, and necklaces or learn by seeing wigwams, longhouses, coal mines, reptiles, other animals, or other entities.

It has five tobogganing hills, an outdoor athletic facility consisting of a hockey rink, tetherball and basketball court, baseball, football, and soccer fields, and much more, various indoor games for rainy weather or during free time (with many created just for Hartley), and most notably "Almost Anything Goes" Night.

"Almost Anything Goes" Night, is a competition where students participate in many different and unique obstacles, and the score has no purpose.

Each dorm consists of approximately twenty bunks for the students, two adjacent sleeping quarters for advisers and counselors, and a bathroom (complete with toilets, sinks, and showers).

The students are responsible for keeping each of their areas neat and clean in an effort to instill positive values.