Hey, Camp Fans!

If you’re unsure where you want to attend camp in the following season, then today’s Blog post just might introduce you to your summer camp experience for next year! We’re shining our summer camp spotlight over to the eastern coast where we find this Jewish summer camp in Connecticut since the long ago year of 1937, Camp Laurelwood.

Perched upon 140 magnificent acres of magical wooded wilderness, Camp Laurelwood is the summer setting for life-long memories and friendships. It’s a place where kids can develop a better understanding of who they are and how they fit into a community that they’re happy to be a part of!

Summer camp at Laurelwood offers classic camp activities such as Archery, Baseball, Basketball, Boating, Dance, Ga-ga, Fitness, Football, Floor Hockey, High and Low Ropes, Kickball, Lacrosse, Martial Arts (including Krav Maga), Mountain Biking, Ping Pong, Playscape, Soccer, Softball, Speedball, Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, Yoga, Zip Lines, and more! Have fun in the water too with Canoeing, Kayaking, Surf-Biking, and everyone’s favorite—Paddleboarding!

You can have fun indoors at Laurelwood too with fun activities like Arts & Crafts where campers can create pottery, ceramics, jewelry, soap, candles, mosaics, and other craft projects. They can learn new songs and dance routines. And their aerobics program combines the music kids love with fitness, exercise and fun.

Sprinkled with adorable cabins to accommodate campers in the girl’s campus as well as the boy’s campus, Camp Laurelwood features the Drazen Dining Hall, Dance Studio, the Nature Hut, the Health Center, and so many more great facilities that are more than complementary to the surrounding wilderness!

If Camp Laurelwood sounds like it might be the place for you check it out further by clicking here for your next summer’s camp experience! As always, Camp Fans, thanks for reading.

- John

Hey, Camp Fans!

This year’s summer camp season is still fresh in our minds, but for serious Camp Fans we think about camp all year long. If you’re unsure where you’ll be attending camp in the following season, then today’s Blog post just might introduce you to your summer camp experience next year! We’re shining our summer camp spotlight over to the eastern coast where we find Camp Jewell YMCA in the Berkshires of northwest Connecticut.

A regular fun factory, Camp Jewell has been around since 1901 and providing kids with 540 beautiful acres along the banks of New Hampshire’s Lake Swanzey. Once an all-boys camp, Camp Jewell moved to a co-ed program in 1970 and has since shown boys and girls summer fun like they’ve never experienced before. With their beginning more than a hundred years ago with well under a hundred kids, they now welcome 1500 campers each summer!

Join the exciting summer happenings going on at Camp Jewell where campers get the chance to splash it up with activities like Swimming, Canoeing and Kayaking, Fishing, Paddleboarding, and more. For land activities, they have Archery, Basketball, Carpetball, Climbing Towers, 4-Square, Frisbee, Hiking, Outdoor Cooking, Ropes Course, Soccer, Volleyball, Wiffleball, Zip Line, and lots, LOTS more!

And for indoor fun, Camp Jewell gives campers the opportunity to sharpen their skills in other activities such as Arts & Crafts, Dance, Drama, Guitar, Ukulele, Pottery, and other cool activities you can try your hand at!

One last note about Camp Jewell, their facilities and cabins for camper quarters are accommodating and complementary to the natural surroundings. The Main Camp Facility fills up at 400 people and they offer 13 fully winterized cabins that can each sleep up to 26 people! Every cabin features bathrooms, showers, and a central common area with a fireplace. And the Senior Lodge sleeps up to 68 people!

Check out more about Camp Jewell by clicking here and, as always, thanks for reading, Camp Fans.

- John

What’s up, Camp Fans?!

With this year’s summer camp season now all wrapped up, it’s still so fresh in our minds that we can’t help but think about camp next year! If you’re scratching your head about where you’ll be attending camp in the following season, then today’s Blog post just might introduce you to your next summer camp experience. We’re shining our summer camp spotlight over to the eastern coast in the state of Maine where we find Hidden Valley Camp! This fun-filled boys and girls summer sleep away camp is situated nicely on top of 350 acres very close to the beautiful coast of Maine. Each summer since 1948, kids between the ages eight and fourteen are invited to spend a 4-week stay at this beautiful visual arts camp.

Join the fun happening on these campgrounds! Hidden Valley gives campers the chance to splash it up with activities like Fishing, Swim & Sauna, the Water Slide, and more. For land activities, they have Animal Care, Gardening, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Jogging, Mountain Biking, Outdoor Adventures, Ropes Course, all kinds of Sports, Ultimate Frisbee, and much more!

And for indoor fun, Hidden Valley gives campers the opportunity to sharpen their skills in other activities such as Arts & Crafts, Communication Arts, Creative Writing, Guest Artists, Performing Arts, Piano, Music, and other cool activities you can try your hand at.

Campers eat their meals with their cabin mates and they spend rest hours together as well. They frequently enjoy Cabin Nights together or some other means that provides a bonding experience in addition to all their daytime adventures outdoors. Cabins are made up of a dozen campers who are accompanied by several camp counselors.

Enjoy taking some time to look into Hidden Valley Camp for your own summer camp experience and, as always, thanks for reading, Camp Fans!

- John

Hey, Camp Folks!

Here on the Everything Summer Camp Blog, I like to give the awesome summer camps that we work with a little time for each one to shine in the summer camp spotlight that we’re shining! Today, get a glimpse of a great Massachusetts camp featured right here, right now! Today, we’re shining our summer camp spotlight over to the east coast where we find Camp Half Moon.

Since 1922, Camp Half Moon has come to be known as ‘The Best Little Camp in the Berkshires’. Located in a beautiful wooded area on the shores of Lake Buel in Monterey, Massachusetts, Half Moon campers find themselves among the tall pines in the mountainous western region of the state.

While at Camp Half Moon, kids have fun in the water with activities like Recreational Swim, Sailing, Kayak and  Canoeing, Water Trampoline, Snorkeling, Waterskiing, and more! And on land, they’re busy building their skills in Archery, Batting Cages, Badminton, Basketball, Biking, Camping & Survival, Golf, Horseback Riding, LaCrosse, Nature Education, Ropes Course, Soccer, Skateboarding, Street Hockey, Tennis, Volleyball, and more.

And, offering a plethora of indoor activities too, campers have the opportunity to spend some time doing Arts & Crafts, Baking/Cooking,  Cake Decorating, Digital Photography,  Drawing/Painting, Drum Lessons, Electric Keyboard, Fashion, Guitar Lessons, Improv, Jewelry, Martial Arts, Newspaper, Pottery, Singing/Songwriting, Theater, Videography, and Yoga.

The camp’s small size and five-to-one camper-to-counselor ratio, helps to achieve this status. More individual attention geared toward each camper gets everyone feeling more comfortable and part of a tight-knit community in a very short span of time.

Camp Half Moon may very well be a great summer camp experience for you. Look into it for your next summer camp stay by checking out their website and, as always, thanks for reading, Summer Campers!

Hey, Camp People!

Where was your summer camp experience this camp season? Maybe you went to the camp that we’re featuring on today’s Summer Camp Spotlight Blog post! We’re swinging the Everything Summer Camp spotlight across the Great Lakes region and just outside the country into Ontario in Canada where we find the wonderful Glen Bernard Camp for Girls found on the east side of Lake Bernard.

Mary Edgar chose this property because she found the glen at the base of a hill close to the lake to be perfect for a number of camp programs such as campfires, storytelling, outdoor plays, and other traditional games. The camp was founded in 1922—initially 225 acres but grew to 430 by just the second year!

Campers at Glen Bernard Camp get the opportunity to participate in traditional summer camp activities like Canoeing, Kayaking, Sailing, Boardsailing, Theatre, Rock Climbing, Ropes Courses, Mountain Biking, Horseback Riding, Trampoline, Canoe Trips, Arts & Crafts, Tennis, Archery, Golf, and more!

Rich in character and charm, the buildings at Glen Bernard Camp don’t have to work too hard to coincide with the natural surroundings! The Main Lodge was constructed in 1936 with a sizable stage and space for an audience of 360. One of their buildings features three stories, an observation deck, and their Living Lightly Lab with rooftop gardens. The Dining Hall whips up meals that have been carefully planned out to meet the standards of the Ministry of Health!

Each cabin is suitable for 8 to 10 people. Bunny and Otter Campers have counselors sleep in their cabins while all the other campers’ counselors sleep separately but close by. Staff members are available throughout the night. Facilities for showers and toilets are centrally located in each section and give campers a sense of really roughin’ it without electricity in the cabins.

You may want to give Glen Bernard Camp a closer look for your own upcoming summer camp stay. Check it out for yourself sometime and, as always, thanks for reading today’s Everything Summer Camp Blog post!

- John