Temagami, Ontario
Girls and Coed Wilderness Adventure Program
Our backcountry canoe trips take us through some of the most beautiful wild places in the world. Northwaters offers a unique blend of adventure and personal growth in a highly supportive environment. While the
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experience is challenging, it is not about conquering rivers or mountains, but about learning from the land in a spirit that honours balance, trust and respect. We believe that when participants learn how to handle life on the trail, they become better equipped to handle life in general. Teeth to the Wind!
Northwaters & Langskib offers canoe expeditions in Ontario & Quebec, Canada for youth ages 11-17; separate 2, 3.5, and 7 week sessions available.
Brevard, North Carolina
Coed Sleepaway Camp
Gwynn Valley has been a summer camp for children since 1935 and is situated on 400 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Brevard, NC. We offer a farm, wilderness, and traditional program where we foster community
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building, lifelong friendships, and a connection with the land. Our founder, Mary Gwynn created a camp based on the values of simplicity, acceptance, a non-competitive program, and an appreciation of the natural world; these values are woven into every aspect of camp. We give campers the opportunity and responsibility of choosing their activities where they have over 25 options ranging from picking vegetables at the Farm, mountain biking, or working on a project at our blacksmithing forge. At Gwynn Valley, we encourage our campers to embrace the simple joys of childhood so by creating a nurturing and child-centered environment under the guidance of a mature and caring staff.
Alderson, West Virginia
Residential boys' summer camp
A Tradition of Fun Since 1898, Camp Greenbrier is located in the Alleghany Mountains along the beautiful Greenbrier River in Alderson, West Virginia. It is a wonderful, safe place where campers have fun, develop
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self-confidence, and make lifelong friends. Boys 7 to 15 years old take part in the traditional camp program that includes archery and rifle, rock climbing, canoeing, snorkeling, kayaking, baseball, basketball. soccer, golf, tennis, swimming, lacrosse, and others.
For 16 to 17 year olds and those who have finished 10th grade, the Leadership Academy offers campers the chance to discover their leadership skills in a challenging three-week program. Outdoor activities like rock climbing, airsoft, canoeing, a challenge course, and white water rafting are combined with instruction in areas such as time management, goal setting, public speaking, and leadership methods. Owned and operated by the same family for three generations. Counselor to camper ratio: 1 to 3.
Claryville, New York
Residential Coed Camp
As a parent, you want your child to have growth-filled opportunities, healthy habits, and lifelong friendships. We partner with families to do exactly that. More than a place to cool off, our lake is where children
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learn to swim for the first time or share a canoe with a new friend. Our zipline isn't a ride, but a safe place for teens to find courage they never knew they had. And our cabins provide more than shelter; they're a space for a community to grow. Our traditional summer camp is rooted in 100+ years of rich heritage. Campers age 7-16 come for 1 -8 weeks and leave us with strengthened character.
Adventure Trips are perfect for outdoor-loving teens. Options include sailing, backpacking, canoeing, climbing, and service trips. Farm Camp is perfect for campers to spend a couple weeks on a working, organic farm, and our all-girls Horse Camp teaches more than equestrian skills but also lifelong leadership skills.
Contact us today to book a tour! (845) 985-2291 or [email protected]
Tuxedo, North Carolina
Residential Boys' Summer Camp
For over 100 years, Mondamin has been a traditional summer camp for boys on a mountain lake in NC, with a non-competitive wilderness focus. The emphasis is on water (canoeing and kayaking, sailing, and swimming), woods
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(hiking, rock climbing, and mountain biking), tennis, and horses, and includes the opportunity for lots of multi-day wilderness trips.
Activities include canoeing, kayaking, sailing, swimming, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, horseback riding, and lots of trips.
Hendersonville
Residential Coed Summer Camp
Experience the benefits of a 4-week session in just 2 or 3 weeks! Established in 1928, Camp Pinnacle is a non-denominational, boys and girls summer camp for children ages 7-16. Camp Pinnacle is located in the heart of
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the Blue Ridge Mountains in an idyllic wooded setting just outside of Flat Rock, North Carolina. The forested 126-acre campus surrounds private Wolfe Lake. In just a few weeks, your child will have the most fun and memorable summer of his or her life, and you as a parent will see your child grow in powerful ways. Learn about our "Camp Guarantee" and how that makes the decision to attend Camp Pinnacle a simple one! This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it should not be missed. Enquire today space is limited.
N. Springfield, Pennsylvania
Residential Coed Summer Camp
Camp Fitch's century-old, classic sleep-away summer camp provides boys and girls aged 6-16 with a holistically safe, values-driven community where they discover friendship and achievement. Kids feel like they
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belong here among our carefully vetted, highly committed, and caring staff who create transformative experiences on a gorgeous and well-maintained site on the shore of Lake Erie.
Most of our staff are college students: tomorrow's teachers and child-care experts who are selected for a proven track record of leadership and positive role-modeling. We require an intensive, on-site week long orientation and skill-building session for all of our staff who learn to listen to each child and create a nurturing environment.
While Camp Fitch offers an impressive array of activities at our Lake Erie waterfront; equestrian center; climbing tower; swimming pool; inland lake; and visual arts center; we recognize that these activities are a means to an end. The Fitch experience is designed to forge strong friendships that last a lifetime and solidify kids' growing sense that they can reach goals for which they have passion and apply persistence.
Parents rave about the value of the Fitch experience, often sharing with us that their children return home a more compassionate and communicative person.
Brevard, North Carolina
Residential Boys' Summer Camp
For more than 50 years Camp Chosatonga and our sister camp, Kahdalea, have offered traditional and unplugged wilderness experiences in the heart of North Carolina's beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Our Christian
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faith and values, rich community, incredible staff, and excellent outdoor programs set us apart. Friendships formed here can last a lifetime. Our campus includes rustic open-air cabins, a dining hall, fields, lakes, a gym, equestrian facilities, and more. We are surrounded on 3 sides by Pisgah National Forest, whose forests, rivers, rocks, and trails we often take trips to explore.
Activities include backpacking, whitewater canoeing and kayaking, mountain biking, rock-climbing, horsebackriding, fieldsports, arts and crafts, archery, guitar, and much more!
Your child will be challenged, have fun, and make rich lifelong friendships along the way!
North Carolina, Wyoming and Florida
Residential Coed Summer Camp
SOAR offers high adventure summer camps designed specifically for youth and young adults between the ages of 8 and 25 diagnosed with ADHD and LD. Each of our summer camp programs promotes making friends, increasing
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self-confidence, and developing life skills. Created in 1977 by an adult with learning disabilities, SOAR provides fun and successful experiences so that participants may gain greater awareness of their own strengths and improve self-esteem and confidence. Our camps offer adventure activities, for beginners and beyond, located across the country's most scenic places. These incredible locations include the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, the sunny Florida Keys and wild and wonderful Wyoming.
USA and some international locations
Wilderness adventure programs worldwide
Outward Bound continues to be the premier provider of experience-based outdoor leadership programs. With over 300 adventure-based courses year-round, all across the US, to choose from serving youth, starting at age 12,
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teens and adults. Course activities include rock climbing, sea kayaking, backpacking, mountaineering, canyoneering, sailing, dog sledding, canoeing and whitewater rafting, and more, in some of the most beautiful and inspiring wilderness areas across the nation. No matter the activity, courses focus on learning through experience, compassion, leadership, outdoor skills and responsibility to both your community and the environment. Courses range in length from Classic week-long courses to Gap Year Semester courses. Some scholarships and financial aid may be available.
Challenge, adventure and teamwork combine to create an ideal platform for building character and teaching leadership. Simply put, Outward Bound courses change lives.
Ojai, CA
Girls Residential Camp
Experience a fun-filled summer of sleep away or day camp with Amplify—an award-winning and American Camp Association Accredited music and arts program for girls! Nestled in the Topa Topa Mountains of Ojai, CA,
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just 1.5 hours from the vibrant city of Los Angeles, Amplify beckons campers from across the U.S. and around the world.
Our affordable 2-week sessions, extendable up to 8 weeks, offer a transformative journey for campers to delve into their passions. Choose from a range of creative focuses, guided by top-notch instructors in music, photography, film (including music video making), theater, music production, skateboarding, dance, choreography, and more.
The adventure doesn't stop there. Campers craft their own schedules with daily fully elective activities, providing a plethora of options like screen printing, DJing, swimming, beach days, surfing, karaoke, dance parties under the stars and more. Amplify ensures an unforgettable summer, fostering creativity, a deep sense of belonging and friendship in a secure, supportive, and age-appropriate environment.
At Amplify, we believe in the transformative power of summer camp experiences. Our commitment to creating a nurturing and inclusive environment for girls has always been at the heart of what we do.
For $100 off use promo code: CP24
Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Columbia, California, & Wyoming
Wilderness adventure program for Teens
Adventure Treks is a leader in operating incredibly fun, community-focused, and growth-oriented outdoor adventure camps for teenagers. We've earned a reputation as one of the most professional organizations in the
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industry, and we've created memorable and life-changing outdoor experiences for more than 20,000 students across the world.
But Adventure Treks is more than just a summer camp for teens. Our adventure programs help young adults build skills for future success. While our students are having the time of their lives rafting, climbing, hiking, biking, camping, kayaking, and canoeing in some of the greatest scenery on the planet, something else is happening. They are growing in numerous ways, including self-confidence, social skills, teamwork, leadership, resilience, and new outdoor skills.
Brevard, North Carolina
Residential girls' summer camp
At Keystone Camp, our girls can be heard laughing, singing, talking, splashing, jumping, and dancing throughout the summer. For 100 years we've been offering campers the opportunity to explore new interests and
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forge long-term friendships in a safe, fun, nurturing environment.
We offer a celebrated horseback riding program and a wide variety of other outdoor activities that empower young women, including hiking, swimming, rock climbing, canoeing, camping and various team sports.
Brevard, North Carolina
Residential Girls' Summer Camp
For more than 50 years Camp Kahdalea and our brother camp, Chosatonga, have offered traditional and unplugged wilderness experiences in the heart of North Carolina's beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Our Christian
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faith and values, rich community, incredible staff, and excellent outdoor programs set us apart. Friendships formed here can last a lifetime. Our campus includes rustic open-air cabins, a dining hall, fields, lakes, a gym, equestrian facilities, and more. We are surrounded on 3 sides by Pisgah National Forest, whose forests, rivers, rocks, and trails we often take trips to explore.
Activities include backpacking, whitewater canoeing and kayaking, mountain biking, rock-climbing, horsebackriding, fieldsports, arts and crafts, archery, guitar, and much more!
Your child will be challenged, have fun, and make rich lifelong friendships along the way!
Brevard, North Carolina
Residential Boys' Summer Camp
Camp Carolina is a residential high adventure and sports camp in Western North Carolina surrounded by some of the South East's best lakes, river, mountains and trails to explore. At Carolina for 100 summers, boys
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learn to feel with their hearts, do with their hands, and live together in the spirit of brotherhood.
Our campers are offered a huge variety of Outdoor Adventure Sports (mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, mountain boarding, white water kayaking etc), Sports, Arts and traditional camp activities (archery, riflery etc). Check out our videos to see us in action! https://www.campcarolina.com/Video
Minong, Wisconsin
Residential coed summer camp, ages 6-15
Swift Nature Camp is an overnight nature camp for boys and girls ages 6-15. Our focus is to blend traditional summer camp activities while increasing a child's appreciation for nature, science and the
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environment.
Our special 1ST overnight campers, offering additional staff to provide support and encouragement to overcome homesickness and build confidence. The program welcomes no more than 50 first-time campers, and the special attention that this intimate group receives is the reason that more than 92% of them wish to return.
Swift Nature Camp offers traditional summer camp activities along with an environmental focus. Campers enjoy an active Nature Center, Pet Zoo, and Department of Natural Resources sponsored programs, plus recreational activities that include canoe and backpack trips, horseback riding, swimming, arts & crafts, team courses, archery, sailing, water skiing, tubing and sports.
In addition to these traditional activities, Swift Nature Camp is so much more. We are a child-centered program located away from technology, celebrity culture and academic pressures. Through fun activities and positive staff role models, we help children develop lifelong skills such as confidence, teamwork, leadership, compassion and communication.
Danville, NH
Wilderness adventure - United States
Adventurelore Summer Camp provides historically safe, high-adventure outdoor experiences tailored to ignite the thrill of exploration in children and adolescents. With a focus on fun, challenge, and achievement, our
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camp promises unforgettable memories under the careful supervision of seasoned professionals. Participants embark on a journey of self-discovery, forming lasting bonds with fellow adventurers while engaging in a diverse range of exhilarating activities. Our mission is to cultivate resilience, bolster self-confidence, and cultivate positive attitudes towards oneself and others amidst the backdrop of the White Mountains in NH and Acadia National Park in ME. visit our camp page campadventure.com or our full company page adventurelore.org for more information.
Temagami, Ontario
Wilderness canoeing adventures for boys
Langskib offers backcountry canoeing adventures from our remote Canadian island base camp with an emphasis on personal growth, leadership development, and expedition skills. We believe that our canoe trips are an
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excellent metaphor for life's journey and represent an important rite of passage into adulthood. While the experience is challenging, it is more about learning from the land and each other than conquering one mountain or river. Whether it is their first time away from home or they are seasoned adventurers, participants can find the experience that is just right for them. Teeth to the Wind!
Sessions include 2, 3-1/2, and 7 week programs for young men ages 10 to 17 in the Temagami region of Ontario. Separate Girls' and All-Gender programs available with us at Northwaters.
Horse Shoe, North Carolina
Residential coed summer camp
Camp Highlander is a residential summer camp in Mills River, North Carolina devoted to the growing and nurturing of boys and girls ages 6-16 in a safe, fun-filled, and electronics-free environment. Since 1957, we have
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been deeply committed to our families and our mission. We work hard to ensure the safest, most meaningful, and most exciting summer camp experience through our personal attention to every camper, our love for each camper and through our caring and competent staff. We believe that the right summer camp experience can be a defining and formative experience in a young life. Camp Highlander is all about making memories, fostering lifelong friendships, and creating more confident and capable children in a kind, nurturing and welcoming community. Our goal is to create a long-term partnership with your family to help you raise a caring and independent young person equipped with the skills needed to thrive in the 21st century.
An intentional and sound philosophy is behind everything we do at camp. Each 10 person cabin unit is arranged by birth gender, age and grade so everyone is able to maximize friendships and fun. Our campers are treated as unique individuals and we work extremely hard to make sure no one falls between the cracks. Every camper is a valued and important member of our community and we look forward to building a long term relationship with your family. It begins with an emphasis on inclusivity and kindness, parents and campers can feel a unique sense of community the moment they arrive. And because kids learn better when they are relaxed and having fun, we make sure that they are growing in ways and developing new skills more effectively than they could at home, in school, or through organized sports. Using fun and outdoor adventure as our delivery system, we focus on the Camp Highlander Core Values: COURAGE (Dare to Be Brave), HONESTY (Speak Truth in Love), INTEGRITY (Respect Yourself, Others and Nature), and FAITH (Seek Truth and Believe).
Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania
Residential Coed Summer Camp
FIRST-TIME CAMPER GUARANTEE: Ages 6-16 * Separate Teen Campus * 100% Electives (5th grade & higher) * Over 60 Daily Activities: All Land & Water Sports, Horseback Riding, Trapeze, ATVs, Paintball, Skateboarding,
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Arts, Scuba & Survival Clinics * Flexible Sessions (2,4,6,8 weeks) * Specializing in First-Time Campers * Mature staff * Quality Instruction * Staff Ratio 1:4 * Great Value!
TEEN CAMPUS and JUNIOR CAMPUS: Two separate campuses on a 350-acre estate. Each campus provides a unique program catered to its age group.
CREATE YOUR OWN ACTIVITY SCHEDULE: Select your activities each morning after breakfast. You sign-up for activities with your friends, so you can attend the same activities together. If entering 4th grade or lower, you travel together with your cabin group to activities and your activity schedule is different each day of the week!
OVER 60 ACTIVITIES: Quality Instruction. All Land & Water Sports, Horseback Riding (no extra fee), Paintball, ATVs, Skateboarding, Flying Trapeze, Circus, Drama, Private Tennis Lessons, Rock Climbing, Zip-Line, Clinics (sports, scuba, survival), Intercamp Tournaments, Exciting Trips (baseball games, golf course, rafting, backpacking, etc.).
FACILITIES: Modern cabins, Pools, Lake, Stables (20+ horses), Tennis Center (10-courts), Skate Park, Gymnasiums, Flying Trapeze, Creative Arts Pavilions, Pottery (23 wheels), Bungee Trampoline, Dance Studio, High Ropes Course, Hockey Rink, and more.
Brevard, North Carolina
Residential girls' summer camp
Rockbrook Camp is an overnight summer camp for girls located in the mountains of North Carolina. Rockbrook was established in 1921 and currently is welcoming fourth-generation campers. It offers 2, 3 and 4 week sessions
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to girls, ages 6 to 16.
Tuxedo, North Carolina
Residential Girls' Summer Camp
A traditional summer camp for girls on a mountain lake in NC, with a non-competitive wilderness focus. The emphasis is on water (canoeing and kayaking, sailing, and swimming), woods (hiking, rock climbing, and mountain
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biking), tennis, and horses, and includes the opportunity for lots of wilderness trips.
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Residential Boys' Summer Camp
At Rockmont, campers get to experience the wildness of being a boy outdoors, the welcoming embrace of a loving community, and the wonder of being alive.
Rockmont is a space for boys to come alive, and it's a
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family experience - you will be able to take part in your son's camp adventure from home through daily blog posts, hundreds of daily photos (with facial recognition, so you'll get photos of your son right to your phone), resources to follow along in daily devotions, session videos, a counselor letter home, and directors who are available to speak with you anytime during your son's session.
What makes Rockmont different is Age Progressive Programming. As your son grows, so will his camp experience. Skills become more advanced, activities grow to be more expansive, campouts add elements of wildness - and our phenomenal counselors and staff are along the journey with him every step of the way!
Check out our camp video and begin your family's Rockmont journey!
Cedar Mountain, North Carolina
Residential boys' summer camp
Camp High Rocks is a small camp for boys in the mountains of Western North Carolina. High Rocks is a place for fun and learning, for challenge and adventure, and for living in an environment that is geared to a
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camper's needs and interests.
Aided by a well-trained staff we seek to teach and inspire lasting skills and values. We offer ongoing opportunities for success, a freedom from inhibiting competitive pressure, and an environment that promotes increased self-esteem and a close sense of community. High Rocks offers the opportunity to grow with one, two, three and four week sessions, each with a higher skill and trip progression.
Locations Throughout British Columbia & Yukon
Wilderness adventure - Canada
Fireside Adventures offers 7 - 10 day outdoor leadership expeditions throughout the summer located in BC and Yukon aged 10 - 16 years of age. We also offer 21 day climate change education and outdoor leadership courses
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in British Columbia, Italy, Yukon, Japan and Ecuador for 13 - 18 year olds. Co-ed youth enroll in our World Bound and Explorer leadership courses as we are small group, mobile, dynamic and immersed in the wilderness.
