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Camp Cayuga
Residential Coed Summer Camp
First-Time Camper Tuition Refund Guarantee: We specialize in first-time campers! Under the same family ownership since 1964, the Buynak Family has earned a fine reputation for providing healthy, safe, fun-filled summers for children! ACA accredited camp. Mature staff. Ratio 4:1.
Separate Teen Campus: Cayuga provides two separate programs geared to the different age groups on each campus. Teen Campus is reserved exclusively for teenagers who are entering 8th and higher. Junior Campus houses campers entering 1st to 8th grade who are age 13 and younger.
Create Your Own Activity Schedule: Campers select their own activities each morning after breakfast. You sign-up for activities with your friends, so you can attend the same activities together. Juniors (4th grade and lower) travel together as a cabin group to activities under the direct supervision of their counselor. The cabin activity schedule is different each day of the week!
Over 60 Daily Activities: All Land & Water Sports, Horseback Riding (no extra fee), Paintball, ATVs, Skateboarding, Private Tennis Lessons, Clinics, Exciting Trips, Weekly Special Events, Fun Evening Activities. Quality Instruction provided.
Enrollment: Capacity 390 campers. To register, complete the on-line application or hard-copy. Tuition Discounts. 2, 4, 6, 8 weeks. Comprehensive Facilities. Modern Cabins.
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ESF Summer Day Camps
Coed summer day camps
ESF offers three different camps: Day Camp for boys and girls ages 3-8; Sports Camp for boys and girls ages 7-14; and Senior Camp for boys and girls ages 9-15.
Pennsylvania Locations- Chester Springs, Chestnut Hill, Haverford, Newtown Square.
New Jersey locations: Lawrenceville and Moorestown.
Connecticut Location: Greenwich
Maryland Locations: Baltimore & North Bethesda
Day Camp activities include swimming, arts & crafts, sports, science, performing arts, martial arts, fencing, archery, and special events. Sports Camp activities include soccer, baseball, basketball, flag football, street hockey, European team handball, lacrosse, golf and swimming. Senior Camp activities include swimming, sports, art, cooking, broadcast media, music production, mythbusters (science exploration), outdoor adventure, martial arts, fencing, archery and more. 2 to 10 week options. Extended day available.
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Camp Hidden Meadows
Residential coed summer camp
Spectacular location, great staff, quality program! 1, 2, 3, & 4 week sessions. Ages 7-16. A wonderful summer experience in the beautiful Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. At Camp Hidden Meadows we provide a place where young people can have fun, make new friends, and return home feeling great about their accomplishments.
Activities include horseback riding, mountain boarding, backpacking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, whitewater kayaking, tubing, fly fishing, caving, tree climbing, mountain biking, rock climbing, outdoor climbing tower, archery, performing arts, high ropes coures, soccer, organic farming, arts program, fun evening activities, swimming, drama, yoga, our famous 1000-foot zip line, and more!
Camp Tall Timbers
Residential coed summer camp
Situated on 120 privately owned acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, Camp Tall Timbers offers 1,2,3,5 and 6 week sessions for boys and girls in grades 1st-10th from June to August. We offer programs that help to foster a camper's personal development in a broad range of activities.
For those FIRST TIME CAMPERS completing grades 1st-4th, Our 'Wet Your Feet' Weeks, are the perfect choice! All the fun of a regular session crammed into one fun-filled week.
Camp Tall Timbers celebrating OUR 42nd year, offering camp excellence with great facilities. Athletics: Individual and team activities, clinic and instructional work, inter-camp games and tournaments, noncompetitive league program, sportsmanship and fair play. Water Sports/Aquatics: Red Cross Swimming achievement program, enhancement of water skills, Canoeing, Paddleboating, Tubing and Water Skiing. Outdoor Experience: English and Western horseback riding, care and treatment of the animals, improvement of riding skills, Mountain Boarding, Mountain Biking, Hiking, Rock Climbing, High and Low Challenge Course, Zipline,Overnight Trips. Creative and Performing Arts: Arts and Crafts, Aerobics, Newspaper, Model Rocketry, Dramatics, Modern Dance and Photography. A well rounded experience for any camper!
Pleasant Hill Outdoor Camp
Residential coed summer camp
Our Something Different is Something Special. Let's face it. You can choose from a lot of different camps. So what makes Pleasant Hill so special? It's because our camp is more than canoes and campfires. Don't worry, Pleasant Hill has all the toys. We have installed a NEW Zip Line for you to enjoy and we have our a New Mountain Board Park in the works!. Pleasant Hill is a camp where new friendships, great fun and new skills are developed all in the environment of a Christian camp. Here you'll find a place where you can challenge yourself to new experiences and discover a new confidence or just stick with the tried and true. Pleasant Hill is a camp where you can shine from the inside out.
Programs include Adventure Camp, Horselovers Camp, Wilderness Camp and Teen Adventure trips. You can choose from a lot of camps but we don't think you'll find any that are more committed to providing you with a top shelf traditional summer camp experience in an atmosphere that is as encouraging and uplifting as Pleasant Hill. That is our promise.
Highland Lakes Camp
Residential Coed Camp
Highland Lakes Baptist Camp is a retreat center in south central Indiana approximately thirty miles southwest of Indianapolis. Located on over 400 acres of beautiful forest and nestled in the hills of Morgan County, Highland Lakes seeks to be a place of rest, refreshment, and reflection to encounter our Lord and Savior. Established in 1970, Highland Lakes continues to be a growing camp and conference center ministry reaching children, youth, and adults throughout Indiana and surrounding areas.
Demands from jobs, family, church, and school can sometimes overload people. There should be a place where a person can stop and take a break...a retreat from the world...a place of refreshment.
Gwynn Valley Camp
Coed Residential and Day Summer Camp
Since 1935, a summer camp for Boys and Girls, ages 5-14 which offers a farm, wilderness and traditional program that nurtures the child while fostering a connection with the land and the simple joys of childhood. The strength of Gwynn Valley is its nurturing environment in a child centered world where each camper will learn and grow under the guideance of a mature and caring staff. We are committed to each individual becoming a vital part of the community. Simplicity, acceptance, a non-competitive program, and an appreciation of the natural world are our core values. We maintain a camper/staff ratio of 3:1. Our residential camp offers sessions of 1, 2, and 3 weeks in length. We grow 70% of our food on our farm and operate an 1890's Grist Mill as an extension of that program. We also have a small Day Camp for children K-4th grade.
Primary activities at our coed camp include: Horseback Riding, Outdoor Living Skills, Farm, Mountain Biking, Texture Crafts, Rock Climbing, Grist Mill, Waterfront, Whitewater Kayaking and Canoeing, Pioneer Crafts, Sports, Fine Arts, Web of Life, and Backpacking and much more.
Appel Farm Arts Camp
Residential coed summer camp
For more than 50 years, summers at Appel Farm have sparked the imaginations of thousands of young people as they interacted with artists from around the world in a beautiful part of rural southern New Jersey. Safety, community, personal growth, and fun have always guided our program and continue to ensure that every child experiences a summer that will last a lifetime.
Our dynamic learning program, with classes in music, theater, dance, visual arts, photography, video, recording arts, and creative writing, sports and swim, places emphasis on the creative process, hands-on learning and collaborative projects as campers work toward performances and exhibitions for their families to enjoy at the end of each session. With a balanced schedule of classes, free-time, workshops, trips, campfires, performances and special events, summers at Appel Farm are full of fun!
Camp Montessori
Coed Day Camp
Camp Montessori is a summer learning community welcoming children from age 2 through 14. Give them the gifts of time and friendship on our 25-acre campus, featuring beautiful, air-conditioned indoor spaces, a gymnasium, multiple playgrounds, woodland trails, and a stream. We offer Traditional Camp in flexible one-week (3-day or 5-day) sessions as well as 37 Specialty Camps including Archery, Forensic Science, Gymboree, Fashion Design, Multiplication Matters, StoryQuest, Volleyball, and LEGO Films. Send them for one week or ten to swim, explore, learn, create, and have a summer to remember.
Camp runs from June 18 through August 24. We welcome tours any time of year. Meet our year-round staff and see why Camp Montessori is the place to be this summer!
Camp Friendship
Coed residential camp
Camp Friendship was founded in 1966 and is still managed by the Ackenbom family. This is a place where campers come back to year after year to visit with old friends and make new ones, supporting our motto "Enter here to be and find a friend". Camp Friendship is more than just fun and games, we also cater to the development needs of our campers. Nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains on 520 acres Camp Friendship offers a variety of programs for boys and girls ages 7-16. Traditional camp programs for Juniors and Teens offer more than 40 activities for campers to choose from to create a fun and fulfilling summer.
Our campers can mix and match one-week sessions with VIVA! Trips for teens or add a half-day Sports Clinic including Tennis, Golf, Gymnastics, Soccer, and Waterskiing instructed by qualified instructors. For the girls who just love horses, the Equestrian Program with more than 80 camp-owned horses is the camp program for them! The Camp Friendship staff and its campers have represented over 80 different countries over our 45 years for a diverse cultural interaction.
Camp Alta Mons
Camp & Retreat Center
Alta Mons Outdoor and Retreat Ministry is located in scenic southwest Virginia, is a ministry of the Roanoke District of the United Methodist Church. The 850-acre mountain and valley historic site was formerly a healing springs retreat known as Crockett Springs. Alta Mons is now a modern camp and retreat center offering a wide variety of programs and year round facility options. We have accomodations for 200+ in the summer and 85+ in the winter. We can provide space for your group's retreat, or let us do everything from the group/teambuilding to the food.
Our Summer camp is for rising first through twelfth graders and offers a small group (10-14 campers and two counselors), Christian, outdoor camping experience. Our prayer is that during your visit you will have an opportunity to experience the splendor of our God.
Summer Institute for the Gifted
Coed Camps with Residential & Day Camp Sessions
Gifted students ages 4-17 can participate in the renowned Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) program. Hosted at pretigious colleges and universities, SIG has an excellent well-rounded program for gifted students as it combines academics, social, cultural and recreational opportunities. Our programs provide students with academic challenges designed to fit their abilities and interests. It also provides them with the opportunity to engage with other students who have similar abilities and interests. Because of our small classes, low teacher-student ratio, and an assistant in every class, we are able to individualize the program for each student. Students live and learn on campus for three weeks, leaving with the confidence gained by an experience that is all their own.
Because of our small classes, low teacher-student ratio, and teaching assistants, SIG individualizes the program for each student. Student safety, security and health are our top priority as SIG programs are well staffed for careful supervision. Our more than 25 years of experience have made us the leading organization in the field.
The Summer Institute for the Gifted is the program of the National Society for the Gifted (www.nsgt.org), a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) foundation.
Forest Lake Camp
Residential camp with separate campuses for boys and girls
We would like to welcome you to Forest Lake Camp, one of America's great sleepaway camps since 1926.
Our camp was founded by H.T. Confer, and remains in family hands to this day. Since 1926, thousands and thousands of boys and girls have experienced the wonders of Forest Lake Camp, gaining independence, developing self-confidence, establishing strong new friendships, touching the majesty of the outdoor world, and sampling an extraordinarily broad range of activities never experienced before.
We encourage you to view our website and begin to get to know us. Read about our values and principles. Look at our directors and counselors. Order our free DVD and see for yourself the absolute beauty of Forest Lake Camp, our fields, our private Adirondack lake with its extensive swimming and boating activities, our tennis and basketball courts, our horses for our outstanding riding program. View and read about the whitewater rafting trips, the hiking and fishing trips, our performing arts programs, and so much more. Read the testimonials, unsolicited, and check our parent references.
Forest Lake Camp is a wholesome, healthy, life-shaping experience for a child. It just might be right for yours. Sincerely, The Directors of Forest Lake Camp
Camp Cayuga
Residential Coed Summer Camp
First-Time Camper Tuition Refund Guarantee: We specialize in first-time campers! Under the same family ownership since 1964, the Buynak Family has earned a fine reputation for providing healthy, safe, fun-filled summers for children! ACA accredited camp. Mature staff. Ratio 4:1.
Separate Teen Campus: Cayuga provides two separate programs geared to the different age groups on each campus. Teen Campus is reserved exclusively for teenagers who are entering 8th and higher. Junior Campus houses campers entering 1st to 8th grade who are age 13 and younger.
Create Your Own Activity Schedule: Campers select their own activities each morning after breakfast. You sign-up for activities with your friends, so you can attend the same activities together. Juniors (4th grade and lower) travel together as a cabin group to activities under the direct supervision of their counselor. The cabin activity schedule is different each day of the week!
Over 60 Daily Activities: All Land & Water Sports, Horseback Riding (no extra fee), Paintball, ATVs, Skateboarding, Private Tennis Lessons, Clinics, Exciting Trips, Weekly Special Events, Fun Evening Activities. Quality Instruction provided.
Enrollment: Capacity 390 campers. To register, complete the on-line application or hard-copy. Tuition Discounts. 2, 4, 6, 8 weeks. Comprehensive Facilities. Modern Cabins.
