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Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
Residential girls' camps
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. We have both day and resident camps where girls spend time learning leadership skills, building self-esteem, hiking, swimming, and learning about the environment.
Campers will also enjoy arts and crafts, songs, horseback riding, sailing, canoeing, rock climbing, trips, cooking, archery, scuba diving and of course making new friends. For more information, please contact camps@gsep.org, or visit our website: www.gsep.org. Finical Aid is available. Transportation provided at some locations.
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Camp Wicosuta for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
Camp Wicosuta is a traditional summer camp for girls located on Newfound Lake in NH, offering 4-week sessions and a 2-week introductory session for first-time campers (completing grades 1-5). At Camp Wicosuta girls develop confidence and self-esteem by learning and developing new skills, making friends, and having the time of their lives. Our professional staff ensures that our campers leave feeling more confident, competent, and connected to a community of loving adults and wonderful campers.
Camp Wicosuta offers a wide variety of activities: soccer, lacrosse, swim instruction in a heated pool, gymnastics, dance, drama, horseback riding, water skiing, tennis, arts and crafts, wilderness adventures, and more. As we say at Wico -- "Go, girl, go!"
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Camp Marist
Residential coed summer camp
Camp Marist is a traditional residential camp for girls and boys ages 6-16 nestled on 300 acres in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Founded by the Marist Brothers, an international Catholic teaching order, we provide a solid Christian based community. Our mature and professional staff consists of dedicated Marist Brothers, teachers, parents, many former campers, and college age students.
The Camp Marist program provides a variety of activities including horseback riding, go-karts, tennis, water skiing, soccer, ropes challenge, baseball, and archery just to name a few. Yes, we offer many fun activities... but they are only the means to an end in the overall growth of your child. We believe that our camp is a special place for campers to learn, grow, and thrive in positive and unique ways that will enhance their lives forever.
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Camp Oneka
Residential girls' summer camp
Camp Oneka is an ACA (American Camp Association) accredited camp for girls located on the shore of beautiful Fairview Lake in the Pocono region of northeast Pennsylvania. We provide a rich traditional program which includes a wide variety of activities from field sports, such as hockey, softball, and soccer to drama, arts and crafts, ceramics, tennis, horseback riding, mountain biking, archery, and tower climbing, to name a few.
Our aquatic program is particularly outstanding, thanks to our location on Fairview Lake, and includes canoeing, sailing, rowing, water skiing, tubing, lifeguard training, and more. Oneka was used by the National Red Cross as a site for production of their Lifeguard Training films. With a camper-to-counselor ratio of three-to-one, Oneka has succeeded in creating a warm family atmosphere where each camper's well-being is everyone's concern. This is particularly reassuring to young and first-time campers. Come join us for our 101st year!
Road's End Farm Horsemanship Camp
Residential girls' horsemanship camp (ages 8-16)
Road's End Farm is a small summer camp that appeals to girls who love being around horses, caring for them, and riding for enjoyment rather than competition. Being an integral part of a 360 acre farm with 45 saddle horses and 20 miles of bridle paths, the camp program provides campers with unlimited exposure to horses and rural life in a picturesque setting at the end of a quiet road. Lake swimming, river canoeing, and arts & crafts round out a camp program that also allows each camper free time to pursue personal interests.
Activities include: Noncompetitive English pleasure riding, swimming and canoeing amidst scenic surroundings.
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania
Residential girls' summer camp
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania was formed on May 1, 2007 through the merger of Hemlock, Penn Laurel, Penn's Woods and Scranton-Pocono Girl Scout councils. This merger brings together decades of rich Girl Scout history including stewardship of more than 2800 acres of camp land. Our camp program provides girls the opportunity to learn about themselves and others, build confidence, and develop interpersonal, leadership and outdoor skills while making new friends. Camp experience allows girls to participate in high tech, creative, and adventure programs.
Resident camp is an overnight camping experience with other girls under the careful supervision of trained camp counselors. Campers sleep on cots or bunk beds with mattresses in a large tent, cabin, lodge or houseboat. Resident camp programs include opportunities for girls to participate in general camping activities, including, but not limited to, swimming, boating (at available camps), arts, crafts, nature activities, cookouts, hiking and games. Campers also enjoy traditional Girl Scout activities like singing and eating s'mores around a campfire.
Raquette Lake Camps
Residential summer camp with separate sessions for boys and girls
Since 1916 there has been something very special happening out on a peninsula at Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks. All summer the forests and lakes reverberate with the sounds of laughter, cheering and fun, It's all part of camp life at Raquette Lake Camps. For generations, children from 6-16 years old spend seven adventure filled weeks they will remember all their lives.
At Raquette Lake Camps, children are given a very special opportunity to explore new things, live with their friends, make decisions independent of their parents, and truly discover themselves.
Grier Summer and Allegheny Riding Camp
Residential girls' summer campLocated in the Allegheny Mountains of beautiful central Pennsylvania, Grier Summer offers camp programs using the campus of the Grier School, a historic girls boarding school. Whether a camper chooses horseback riding, visual or performing arts or a combination of all three opportunities, each venue offers state of the art facilities. See why girls and parents from all over the world choose Grier Summer!
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.
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 Danbee for Girls
Residential girls' summer camp
Camp Danbee is a traditional 7 week summer camp for girls between the ages of 6 - 15. Campers entering grades 1-5 can come for 4 weeks with an option to extend. Danbee is all about SPIRIT! ENTHUSIASM AND ENERGY thread their way through everything we do at camp. Danbee's goal is to provide girls with a summer experience filled with moments of self-discovery and spirited activity. Instilled with the tradition of warmth, caring and companionship, Danbee is a place where summer relationships are born and lifelong friendships develop. "The Spirit is Catching" at Danbee and it informs all we do at camp. The choices are plentiful, the instruction is top-notch and the fun is guaranteed!
Danbee is located on spring-fed Lake Ashmere in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. Our extensive facilities include 2 heated swimming pools, an equestrian center, 11 all-weather tennis courts, 4 Malibu competition ski boats, gymnastics center, state-of-the-art dance studio, creative arts studios and multi-purpose athletic fields.
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.
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
The Susquehannock Camps
Residential summer camp with separate sessions for boys and girls
The Susquehannock Camps encourage the moral, social, and physical development of campers. Operating as brother and sister camps, Susquehannock for Boys and Susquehannock for Girls run independent programs across the 100-acre campus. Each camp has its own individual traditions that its campers hold dear. Some co-ed activities are organized for older campers.
Activities include: Soccer, Tennis, Basketball, Lacrosse, Field & Street Hockey, Swimming, Sailing, Canoeing, Football, Softball, Baseball, Volleyball, Golf, Wrestling, Aikido, Horseback Riding, Ultimate Frisbee, Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing, Archery, Nautilus Weights, Confidence Building Courses, Lake Activities, Arts & Crafts and Woodworking.Campers aged 7 - 16, All Boys and All Girls
Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
Residential girls' camps
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. We have both day and resident camps where girls spend time learning leadership skills, building self-esteem, hiking, swimming, and learning about the environment.
Campers will also enjoy arts and crafts, songs, horseback riding, sailing, canoeing, rock climbing, trips, cooking, archery, scuba diving and of course making new friends. For more information, please contact camps@gsep.org, or visit our website: www.gsep.org. Finical Aid is available. Transportation provided at some locations.
