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Wellspring New York
Residential Girls' Fitness and Weight Loss Camp
Wellspring New York is the only weight loss program exclusively for young women, between the ages of 11-24. At Wellspring New York, you'll make lifelong friends with young women your own age, at a summer weight loss program that will change your life, on the beautiful and comfortable campus of Paul Smith's College right on Lower St. Regis Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State (close to Lake Placid). Wellspring New York offers a 4 week, 6 week or 8 week program.
Because you'll be losing weight alongside young women just like you, you'll find the environment extremely safe and supportive. The young women of Wellspring New York are divided into the separate programs of Lower Camp, Middle Camp, and Upper Camp (18 and older). Wellspring New York utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy in individual and group sessions to maximize weight loss and long-term behavioral change. The cognitive behavioral therapy continues after camp ends through a three-month after-care weight loss program.
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Camp Cayuga
Residential Coed Summer Camp
Camp Cayuga is a family owned/operated nonsectarian camp for children ages 5-15. You're guaranteed to have fun. That's our First-Time Camper Guarantee!
Campers (5th grade & higher) select their own activities each morning. Campers sign-up with their friends, so they can attend the same activities together that day. Younger campers are provided an activity schedule geared to their age.
Facilities: modern cabins, Separate Teen Campus, 2 pools, lake, equestrian center (25 horses), tennis center (10 courts), skate park, hockey rink, 2 gymnasiums, high/low ropes course, performing arts building, dance studio, creative arts center, radio broadcasting station, weight-training room, pottery room (15 wheels), ATV track, martial arts room, video game room, 300 scenic acres, and program areas for 60 activities (basketball courts, volleyball courts, paintball fields, baseball field, etc).
60+ Daily Activities: Land Sports (daily horseback riding, skateboarding, lacrosse); Water Sports (sailing, scuba diving clinics); Extreme Sports (bungee trampoline jumping, ATVs, paintball); Performing Arts (flying trapeze, circus, drama, music); Creative Arts (ceramics, pottery); Media Arts (photography, video); Adventure & Wilderness (rock climbing, mountain biking, backpacking, overnights, petting zoo, canoe trips).
ACA accredited, flexible sessions (2,4,6,8 weeks), mature staff, professional instruction, staff/camper ratio 1 to 4. Discounts available.
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Summer Study Programs
Coed dorm-based study program
Summer Study Programs offer students a unique summer opportunity which combines stimulating academics with unforgettable sports, recreational, social and/or cultural activities. Summer Study Programs is the "Total Pre-Collegiate Experience" at Penn State University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Vermont, or Summer Study in Paris at The Sorbonne. 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 weeks - early July to mid August.
Summer Study Programs focuses on Pre-College, Academic Enrichment and Outdoor Adventure. Activities include: College Credit and Enrichment Classes, SAT Prep, Sports, Recreation, exciting Nightlife and weekend travel adventures.
YMCA Camp Mason
Residential coed summer camp
Located on over 600 acres of scenic woodlands adjacent to the Delaware Water Gap, Camp Mason offers a unique blend of traditional and adventure summer camp experiences. Campers choose their own activities, including: field sports (baseball, basketball, football, soccer), target sports (archery, riflery), swimming (instructional, competitive), boating (canoes, kayaks, rowboats), and the arts (crafts, painting, pottery, ceramics, music, dance, photography). There’s also a skateboard park, in-ground pool, mountain biking, climbing wall, nature center, and a farm & garden program.
If you like horses, Camp Mason offers daily riding lessons (western) for all skill levels, featuring instruction and trail rides. If you *love* horses, our resident ranch program pairs every camper with a horse for two weeks of feeding, tacking, grooming, and Western Style riding!
Up for adventure? Campers have the option of signing up for daily half-day, full-day, and overnight trips. Popular trips include hiking to beautiful waterfalls, tubing on the Delaware River, climbing a real rock face, and taking a dip in local lakes. Visit our website for more information about adventure programs!
Outward Bound
Wilderness adventure programs worldwide
Outward Bound, a national nonprofit organization, offers over 500 adventure-based courses - year round - serving adults, teens and youth (ages 12+).
Course activities include rock climbing, sea kayaking, backpacking, mountaineering, sailing, dogsledding, canoeing and rafting in some of the most untouched wilderness areas across the nation. No matter the activity, courses focus on learning through experience, compassion, leadership and responsibility to both team and the environment. Courses range in length from 4 days to three months in length. Scholarships are available.
Since 1962, over 500,000 students have returned from an Outward Bound experience with a deeper knowledge of themselves and the world in which we live.
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
Forrestel Farm Riding & Sports Camp
Coed and Girls' Camp with Residential and Day Camp Sessions
Forrestel Riding & Sport Camp is a fully accredited ACA camp, established in 1980. We offer one, two and four week co-educational sessions ages 7-16 some co-ed and some just for girls. Our historic 800- acre working farm is located 40 miles west of Rochester, NY. There are two outstanding programs: equestrian and outdoor adventure & sports. Forrestel Farm Riding & Sports Camp provides children with a safe and nurturing environment where they are inspired to succeed. Our programs are designed to help campers develop confidence and explore new opportunities. We limit our enrollment which enables us to have more one on one time with each child.
Whether choosing to ride 2 to 4 hours daily or participate in teambuilding, high adventure and sports activities, campers at Forrestel always have a blast!!
Camp Lohikan
Residential coed summer camp
65+ DAILY ACTIVITIES! All Sports, Arts and Adventure Activities PLUS Horseback Riding, Jet Skiing, Paintball, Quad Riding, Bungee Trampoline, Rock Band, Spy Camp, Skate Park, USTA Tennis, Circus, Flying Trapeze, SCUBA, Comprehensive Performing Arts Program, Arts & Crafts with 14 Workshops, High & Low Ropes, Rock Climbing, Backpacking Trips, Water Skiing, Sailing, Private Lake with 50 boats, Canoe Trips, Skateboarding & Inline Skating, Downhill Mountain Boarding, Horseback Overnights, Trips to Amusement Parks, Heated Swimming Pool, Modern Cabins, 1200 acres & more!
For 52 years the Buynak Family and the Camp Lohikan staff have provided campers with a safe, caring environment where it's easy to make friends, professional instruction to learn new skills and sharpen old ones, and a friendly camp atmosphere where FUN happens all the time! First-time campers are our specialty! We feature a comprehensive program designed to make the first-time camp experience successful and memorable. We back it up with a Tuition Refund Guarantee.
Iroquois Springs
Residential coed summer camp
Iroquois Springs, located just 90 miles from New York City, is a co-ed residential camp in the lower Catskill mountains for boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 16. With a wide variety of activities and 3 or 6 week sessions available, Iroquois Springs is sure to make your summer special.
At Iroquois Springs children build confidence, life-long friendships, and find new and exciting challenges that stimulate their minds as well as their bodies...challenges through exposure to many different activities.
Camp Hilltop
Residential coed summer camp
Camp Hilltop- A Heap of Friends, A Mountain of Fun!
Camp Hilltop, everything a camp should be! Campers feel comfortable and excel in a non-competitive, structured and nurturing environment. It's a traditional overnight camp in the Catskill Region of New York. Family values are the foundation from which Hilltop is built. We offer 2-8 week sessions at reasonable rates. Come see what sets Hilltop apart.
The daily program consists of 50+ fun activities including: High & Low Ropes Courses, Climbing Tower, Water-Skiing, Lake Trampoline, Sailing, Horseback Riding, Archery, Sports, Mountain Bikes, Tennis, Computers, Dance, Drama and Arts & Crafts.
Incarnation Camp
Coed Camp with Residential & Day Camp Sessions
Founded in 1886, Incarnation Camp offers both residential and day camping to boy and girls ages 7-15. Located on 700 wooded acres, which surround a mile-long private lake, Incarnation Camp offers a well-rounded program including traditional camp activities. Teens take part in Adventure Treks.
In the spirit of the traditional camp experience, activities include: boating; water sports; ropes course; archery; hiking; primitive studies; field and team sports; fine arts, such as drama, art, dance, arts and crafts; horseback riding, swimming instruction and more. Teens hike the Appalachian Trail, bike the rail trails of New England and canoe the CT River.
Cody Camps
Residential coed summer camp
Cody is an American Camp Association accredited summer camp that provides children with a safe, fun atmosphere to make new friends and enjoy new experiences. Our 3:1 camper-to-counselor ratio is amongst the lowest of any camp and allows us to provide each camper with the utmost individual attention. We are a smaller camp and a perfect fit for a first-time camper.
Cody offers a wide variety of activities and trips taught and lead by college athletes, coaches and seasoned educators. With a guided-choice program and over 25 activities offered daily, campers hone their favorite skills and develop new ones.
For three generations, we have been proud to offer quality summer camp experiences to children all over the country and world. We appreciate your interest in Cody and look forward to hearing from you.
YMCA Camp Topanemus
Coed Day Camp
YMCA Camp Topanemus, located on 50 acres, is dedicated to providing your child with a fun, safe and quality camping program.
We offer over ten different types of camp programs that run for one week sessions starting in June and ending in August. Hours are 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Busing is available from our scheduled bus route. Extended hours are available from two different locations. Activities include archery, arts and crafts, baseball, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, soccer, high/low ropes, splash park, swimming, tennis, zip line and much more.
YMCA Camp Topanemus is an American Camp Association (ACA) accredited camp.
Adirondack Camp
Residential coed summer camp
Located on its own deep wooded peninsula in the Adirondack Wilderness, amid the beautiful, crystal clear waters of northern Lake George, New York, Adirondack Camp is four traditional kids camps in one! Create your own personalized activity schedule from an awesome number of choices on the Waterfront, Land, Arts and Wilderness. Boys and girls aged 7-16 come together from around the world to test their skills, make lifelong friendships and to discover their true selves in what might just be the best and most important summer of their lives. Boasting a 1:3 counselor/camper ratio, our 185 campers are family. Even first time campers will feel right at home! Join us for an unforgettable summer of fun and personal awakening amongst the kindest, most caring community of fellow adventurers you will ever know. At Adirondack, the race is your own... to accomplish far more than you thought possible... to enjoy the things you love... and to discover and explore the new.
Activities taught at all skill levels by professional, caring, adult staff from around the globe include...
-- Waterfront: waterskiing, wakeboarding, windsurfing, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, swimming, lifesaving and fishing.
-- Land: fencing, archery, rock-climbing, nature, tennis, basketball, soccer, rugby, football, baseball, sand volleyball, circus-fun, yoga, and all-sports.
-- Arts: creative arts, camp-craft, culinary fun, fine arts, drama, improv, music, dance, yoga, and electronic arts.
-- Wilderness: mountaineering, backpacking, day-hikes, rock-climbing, island hops, white-water kayaking, white-water rafting, canoe and fishing trips.
-- Things to fill the rest of your days and nights: Carnivale, Staff Hunt, Tubing, Dances, Whistle Lunch, Gold Rush, Blue/White, Talent Show, Pajama Breakfast, Star-Gazing, Campfires, Story Telling, Predator/Prey, Harry Potter Day, and much, much more!
Wellspring New York
Residential Girls' Fitness and Weight Loss Camp
Wellspring New York is the only weight loss program exclusively for young women, between the ages of 11-24. At Wellspring New York, you'll make lifelong friends with young women your own age, at a summer weight loss program that will change your life, on the beautiful and comfortable campus of Paul Smith's College right on Lower St. Regis Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State (close to Lake Placid). Wellspring New York offers a 4 week, 6 week or 8 week program.
Because you'll be losing weight alongside young women just like you, you'll find the environment extremely safe and supportive. The young women of Wellspring New York are divided into the separate programs of Lower Camp, Middle Camp, and Upper Camp (18 and older). Wellspring New York utilizes cognitive behavioral therapy in individual and group sessions to maximize weight loss and long-term behavioral change. The cognitive behavioral therapy continues after camp ends through a three-month after-care weight loss program.
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