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Maine Summer Camps for girls
Fernwood Cove
Residential girls' summer camp
Fernwood Cove...encouraging participation, exploration and personal growth through simple group living in the outdoors. Our half season traditional program provides girls with a forum to experience new challenges, enhance self confidence, develop skills, and establish enduring friendships in safe, beautiful surroundings. Each camper at Fernwood Cove brings something special to the atmosphere and cooperative spirit. Our unique gathering of girls and caring, mature, professional staff creates a diverse and supportive community.
Nestled on 220 secluded acres with magnificent water frontage and fine sandy beach on Island Pond. Two separate sessions each summer. Our commitment: Excellence in facilities, equipment, program, staff and safety.
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Tripp Lake Camp
Residential girls' summer camp
Tripp Lake Camp is located in Poland, Maine. We are a traditional 7 week residential summer camp for girls ages 8 to 16. Established in 1911, Tripp Lake Camp is accredited by the American Camping Association. Our program offers a wide range of activities. We are situated on 260 acres, with a mile of shorefront.
Traditional summer camp activities including landsports, waterfront activities, and many more. Camp opens in late June and ends in early August, and runs for one, seven-week session.
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Camp Walden
Residential girls' summer camp
Walden teaches girls self-reliance, encourages self-confidence, promotes leadership capabilities, and provides an atmosphere where girls can learn to live together, while appreciating others as individuals. Walden is happiness, laughter, spirit, friendship, warmth, affection and tradition.
Located in a rustic setting on 200 acres in Southern Maine, we have a balance of old traditions with building self esteem and preparing girls for the future with leadership skills. Small enrollment (140 campers, ages 9-15, per session) insures a more personal touch.
Camp Runoia
Residential girls' summer camp
Tradition, leadership, caring, fun and adventure for girls aged 8-15. Camp Runoia is located on more than 85 acres on Great Pond, a crystal clear lake in Central Maine and is about learning to live with other people, sharing ideas and working out differences.
Activities include: sailing, riflery, wind surfing, rowing, kayaking, arts and crafts, drama, camp craft, archery, tennis, soccer, softball, swimming, diving, canoeing, kickball, English horseback riding, ropes course - high and low elements, environmental education, outdoor living skills, and much more!
Camp Kippewa for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
No two girls are exactly alike. Why should their summers be? Experience customized camping at Camp Kippewa, a unique all-girls overnight camp in Maine for ages 7 to 15. In each 4-week session, girls create their own weekly schedule from a tremendous array of activities, participating in six activity blocks daily.
The Arts program offers over 20 disciplines of fine arts & crafts and dance & theater. Onsite horseback riding facilities host an unbeatable Equestrian program where campers can ride daily. Lake Cobbosseecontee is the perfect setting for top-notch Water Sports instruction in waterskiing, sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and kayaking. The program also offers a variety of Land Sports including tennis, gymnastics, softball and lacrosse. Campers enjoy the natural setting of Maine with ocean sailing trips, beach days, wilderness hikes and canoe trips.
The directors at Camp Kippewa believe every girl needs a safe, fun place to make friends, to learn social, artistic, and athletic skills, and to take childhood's steps toward the independence of adulthood. The caring, nurturing ambiance of sleepaway camp at Camp Kippewa sets a girl at ease with who she is, giving her the confidence to make friends easily and feel comfortable about trying challenging new activities.
The Summer Camp
Residential girls' summer camp
The Summer Camp is a residential summer camp for low-income and foster girls. The campers, ages 6-16, take part in a variety of fun and enriching activities such as:Archery, sailing, photography, sewing, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, knitting, adventure, dance, pottery, library, land sports, arts and crafts and science explorers. Literacy is incorporated into every camp session to enhance each girl's ability and desire to read.
The Summer Camp provides fully paid camper scholarships to each of our more than 300 campers. Our campers come from rural and urban areas of New York and New England and transportation is provided for those living outside of Maine.
Snowy Owl Camp for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
A small, exclusive all girls camp specializing in water skiing (slalom ,tricks ,and jumping), sailing, kayaking, water trampolining, white water rafting, wake boarding, twinkie riding, trips. Snowy Owl's theater building is active with plays, improv, musicals,and original works.
Half of the girls who come want to learn to water ski: all want to become really good. We compete in USA Water Ski sanctioned tournaments. Ski team members assist the coaches in every group.
Beyond Belief! Choose your schedule, and enjoy the magic of Snowy Owl: 2, 4, or 6 weeks.
Camp Vega for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
Camp Vega offers girls rich camp traditions and a nurturing environment with unrivaled facilities and the highest level of instruction for all ages, abilities and interests. Vega is located on 300 acres of pristine forest and one mile of lakefront on Echo Lake, recognized by the Department of Interior as one of the cleanest lakes in Maine. Our superb staff help girls develop a positive self-image, challenge themselves at new activities, and make life-long friendships, giving them the strength and self-esteem to discover and follow their dreams.
Activities include Tennis, Water Ski, Soccer, Basketball, Field hockey, Lacrosse, Softball, Volleyball, Arts and Crafts, Dance, Drama, Equestrian, Figure Skating, Golf, Squash, Gymnastics, Archery, Music, Rowing, Sailing, Kayaking, Canoeing, Swimming, Rope Course, Water-Zipline, Outdoor Adventure/Wilderness Trips.
Camp Matoaka
Residential girls' summer camp
Each summer 275 girls join together and experience the Matoaka blend of fun, spirit and friendship. Campers return home with confidence gained from skills in activities from the arts, athletics, theatre, water sports and adventure.
Programs include water ski, tennis, swimming, boating, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, English riding (on premises), team sports, gymnastics, dance (hip hop, tap, jazz, ballet), arts & crafts, photography, sewing, dance, theater, music, voice, video communications, radio broadcasting, archery, ropes, mountain biking, and computers.
-GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps
Day Camps with separate sessions for boys and girls
GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps offer 125 locations across the country directed by the top college coaches and pro players in lacrosse.
Our camps were developed to provide athletes with the opportunity to become better lacrosse players by learning from the best coaches and players in the game today.
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Camp Tapawingo
Residential girls' summer camp
Tapawingo is a place where girls spend their summer days in our encouraging environment. They play, they learn, they share companionship. And they do all this in the fresh New England air. Tapawingo is a place for a girl to develop character and good values, a sense of personal responsibility and independence, and good judgment as well. Sessions: 3.5 weeks and 7 weeks. You'll get better at the sports you like and you'll discover some sports you've never tried before.
We play tennis, soccer, volleyball, newcomb, basketball, lacrosse, softball, kickball and hockey. We also include archery, track and field, gymnastics, ropes, water skiing, swimming, boating, sailing, windsurfing, English riding, arts and crafts, performing arts, dance, digital photography, stain glass and ceramics, and lots of wilderness trips.
Fernwood Cove
Residential girls' summer camp
Fernwood Cove...encouraging participation, exploration and personal growth through simple group living in the outdoors. Our half season traditional program provides girls with a forum to experience new challenges, enhance self confidence, develop skills, and establish enduring friendships in safe, beautiful surroundings. Each camper at Fernwood Cove brings something special to the atmosphere and cooperative spirit. Our unique gathering of girls and caring, mature, professional staff creates a diverse and supportive community.
Nestled on 220 secluded acres with magnificent water frontage and fine sandy beach on Island Pond. Two separate sessions each summer. Our commitment: Excellence in facilities, equipment, program, staff and safety.
