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Shenandoah Summer Camp
Coed Residential Adventure Camp
Dear Families,
Are you ready for the most unique camping experience of your life? Welcome to Shenandoah Summer Camp! The place where fun, adventure, and friendships combine for thrills chills and excitement!
Come experience rock climbing, hiking, canoeing, hang gliding (*NEW), white water rafting, campfires, 500' zip line, backpacking, ropes courses and more!
To us, summer camp is about fun but it's also a whole lot more. We believe that positive friendships are formed by sharing challenging experiences and overcoming obstacles. We offer 130 acres of unspoiled wilderness where you will be surrounded by a beautiful healthy environment, caring adults and positive teen role-models. We also offer exciting opportunities to explore some of the most scenic mountains, rivers and cliffs of Virginia and West Virginia. This sets the stage for gaining the confidence to scale a rock wall, building new friendships and strengthening old ones, finding leadership, and discovering nature!
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Pleasant Hill Outdoor Camp
Residential coed summer camp
Our Something Different is Something Special. Let's face it. You can choose from a lot of different camps. So what makes Pleasant Hill so special? It's because our camp is more than canoes and campfires. Don't worry, Pleasant Hill has all the toys. We're even installing a NEW Zip Line this year for you to enjoy and our slip-n-slide will be an even bigger hit with the improvements we are making. Pleasant Hill is a camp where new friendships, great fun and new skills are developed all in the environment of a Christian camp. Here you'll find a place where you can challenge yourself to new experiences and discover a new confidence or just stick with the tried and true. Pleasant Hill is a camp where you can shine from the inside out.
Programs include Adventure Camp, Horselovers Camp, Wilderness Camp and Teen Adventure trips. You can choose from a lot of camps but we don't think you'll find any that are more committed to providing you with a top shelf traditional summer camp experience in an atmosphere that is as encouraging and uplifting as Pleasant Hill. That is our promise.
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Bluestone Summer Camp
Residential coed summer camp
Bluestone offers four one week camping sessions in June and July. Our Resident Program will accomodate youth entering 3rd through 10th Grade, and our Trip Camps are for high school youth entering 10th through 12th Grades.
Our Summer Camping Program is based on a small group philosophy, which consists of one female and one male counselor to a group of around 10-12 kids. A week at Bluestone will provide campers with excellent opportunities for spiritual and personal growth, for meeting new friends, learning new skills, and challenging themselves.
In addition to daily arts and crafts, swim time and song time, Resident Campers have a daily bible study based on the theme of the summer. Hikes, creek walks, canoeing, sleeping out under the stars, nightly vespers, cookouts and s'mores are just some of the many other things to look forward to at Bluestone! Trip Campers can look forward as well to whitewater canoeing and rafting experiences, as well as other adventure activities depending upon which week they attend.
Blue Star Camps
Residential coed summer camp
Blue Star Camps is an American Camp Association accredited summer camp for Jewish children ages six to sixteen. We offer a truly amazing program that is customized to meet the needs and interests of each individual child. Blue Star presents our campers with a variety of activities ranging from Creative Arts, Land Sports, Outdoor Adventure and Nature, Waterfront, Tennis, Horseback, as well as a Living Judaism program.
Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, Blue Star empowers campers to develop independence, self-esteem, new skills and life-long friendships. Owned and directed by the Popkin family for sixty years, Blue Star is a sanctuary from the stresses of the "real world" where magic is made each summer in our child-centered world.
Gwynn Valley Camp
Coed Residential and Day Summer Camp
Since 1935, a summer camp for Boys and Girls, ages 5-14 which offers a farm, wilderness and traditional program that nurtures the child while fostering a connection with the land and the simple joys of childhood. The strength of Gwynn Valley is its nurturing environment in a child centered world where each camper will learn and grow under the guideance of a mature and caring staff. We are committed to each individual becoming a vital part of the community. Simplicity, acceptance, a non-competitive program, and an appreciation of the natural world are our core values. We maintain a camper/staff ratio of 3:1. Our residential camp offers sessions of 1, 2, and 3 weeks in length. We grow 70% of our food on our farm and operate an 1890's Grist Mill as an extension of that program. We also have a small Day Camp for children K-4th grade.
Primary activities at our coed camp include: Horseback Riding, Outdoor Living Skills, Farm, Mountain Biking, Texture Crafts, Rock Climbing, Grist Mill, Waterfront, Whitewater Kayaking and Canoeing, Pioneer Crafts, Sports, Fine Arts, Web of Life, and Backpacking and much more.
NorthBay
Residential coed summer camp
NorthBay's mission is to teach young people that their actions and attitudes have a lasting impact on their future, the environment and the people around them. During the day, campers receive instruction on three skills. Those skills include Arts and Crafts, Archery, Dance, Drama, Cooking, Extreme Science, Filmmaking, Land Sports, Mountain Biking, Mountaineering, Paddling, Pioneering, Rock climbing, Sailing, Swimming, Wilderness Living and Waterskiing/Wakeboarding.
After skill sessions are done, campers reconnect with their cabin mates and participate in an adventure activity. Adventure activities include our 80 foot high ropes course, water/land zip lines, indoor and outdoor climbing walls and giant swing.
After dinner, when most camps are winding things down, we crank things up a notch with NorthBay Live. In NorthBay Live, campers will sing and dance to our very own live band, True North. They also participate in skits and hear an inspirational character building message from a member of our staff. Other evening activities include the obstacle course, pool parties, entertainment night, hoe-down, county fair and all camp dance.
All NorthBay cabins are air-conditioned, have their own restrooms and provide linens, a pillow, and towel. Meals are prepared fresh daily by our five, culinary institute trained chefs.
Camp Hidden Meadows
Residential coed summer camp
Spectacular location, great staff, quality program! 1, 2, 3, & 4 week sessions. Ages 7-16. A wonderful summer experience in the beautiful Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. At Camp Hidden Meadows we provide a place where young people can have fun, make new friends, and return home feeling great about their accomplishments.
Activities include horseback riding, mountain boarding, backpacking, canoeing, whitewater rafting, whitewater kayaking, tubing, fly fishing, caving, tree climbing, mountain biking, rock climbing, outdoor climbing tower, archery, performing arts, high ropes coures, soccer, organic farming, arts program, fun evening activities, swimming, drama, yoga, our famous 1000-foot zip line, and more!
The College Settlement Camps
Coed Summer Camp with Residential and Day Camp Sessions
The camp offers camping experiences to children ages 8-12 who cannot afford such opportunities. The College Settlement Camp offers children from different ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds the opportunity to live, play and learn together. We do not discriminate as to race, creed, color, national origin, special needs or gender
All campers stay in cabins and can have fun participating in activities such as swimming, boating, crayfishing, creek crawling, berry picking, archery, campfires, sports, games, crafts, camping out, participating in a talent show or a dance. There is an endless list of fun things to choose from! Most twelve year old campers will have a chance to experience wilderness camping for four days and three nights at our Spruce Run Outpost in the Poconos
Shenandoah Summer Camp
Coed Residential Adventure Camp
Dear Families,
Are you ready for the most unique camping experience of your life? Welcome to Shenandoah Summer Camp! The place where fun, adventure, and friendships combine for thrills chills and excitement!
Come experience rock climbing, hiking, canoeing, hang gliding (*NEW), white water rafting, campfires, 500' zip line, backpacking, ropes courses and more!
To us, summer camp is about fun but it's also a whole lot more. We believe that positive friendships are formed by sharing challenging experiences and overcoming obstacles. We offer 130 acres of unspoiled wilderness where you will be surrounded by a beautiful healthy environment, caring adults and positive teen role-models. We also offer exciting opportunities to explore some of the most scenic mountains, rivers and cliffs of Virginia and West Virginia. This sets the stage for gaining the confidence to scale a rock wall, building new friendships and strengthening old ones, finding leadership, and discovering nature!
