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Hidden Valley Camp
Residential coed summer camp	Freedom, Maine
For 60+ years, Hidden Valley has featured the finest in visual and performing arts, challenging outdoor adventures, horse-riding and much more on 330 acres with a private lake and heated pool near the Maine coast. Develop new skills in 12 art studios, 4 dance and theater spaces, our new ropes course, state-of-the-art stables and spacious playing fields which form the setting for high-quality elective offerings. Professional staff provide challenging individualized teaching and counseling designed to foster independence, community and creativity in all dimensions of children's summer experience. Campers come from all over the US and 5 continents. Great food, many choices, support for allergies. Directors have lived on site for over 20 years. A parent writes: "It is a truly extraordinary camp, fun, interesting, inclusive, and with the kind of values that indirectly teach kids how to be better human beings. Each year my kids go there, I see so many positive changes when they return home. . . The camp directors are confident of their product as they should be."
E-mail: summer@hiddenvalleycamp.com, Website: www.hiddenvalleycamp.com, (800) 922-6737
Accredited by American Camp Association Established in 1948

Acadia Mountain Guides offers small group coed camp experiences for ages 9 - 12 and ages 13 - 17. Our Explorer Series for young campers features multi-sport adventure and focused climbing camps primarily within Acadia National Park in Maine. These five day camps are available in day or overnight formats. Adventure camps include a diversity of activities such as rock climbing, ropes course, hiking, nature study, canoeing, caving, swimming, first aid and survival skills. Our specialized rock climbing camps focus on rock climbing and related skills.

Are you a teenager looking for summer adventure? Join one of our RockPro climbing camps or multi-sport adventure camps! Our tiered climbing camps offer something to all levels of rock climbers from those just starting out who want to learn the ropes to advanced sport and traditional lead climbing camps. Multi-sport adventure camps mix it up with rock climbing, rafting, sea kayaking, hiking throughout Maine. Camps may be combined for up to five weeks of summer fun. Accredited by the Professional Climbing Instructors Association and the AMGA. Certified climbing instructors. Member Maine Youth Camp Association. Brochure and detailed information available.

Williwaw has been creating unique adventures for young adults since 1999. Our expeditions are designed to provide a safe and meaningful wilderness experience that balance challenging adventure and exploration with fun. We spend time developing outdoor skills and focus on the group experience.

Wilderness travel, paddling and sailing are the core components to our expeditions, and students leave with a solid foundation of skills so that they can pursue and become competent in these activities in the future. Activities include backpacking, sea kayaking, whitewater rafting and kayaking, coastal sailing, community service and surfing.

Camp Micah, an overnight camp located in Bridgton, Maine is committed to providing a safe, stimulating and challenging environment infused with Jewish traditions and values that promotes the building of self-esteem, social relationships and skill development.

Activities include: team sports (baseball, basketball, soccer, etc.); individual sports (tennis, archery, gymnastics, and golf on our mini-golf course); arts (arts & crafts, music, theatre, dance, etc.); waterfront (water skiing, kayaking, canoeing, sailing,); multimedia (computers, radio, etc.); ropes, wilderness & hiking, and much more.

A non profit Christian camping ministry offering high quality Adventure based activities and canoe trips in Maine and Canada.

Wilderness canoe trips and adventure based activities including learning survivor skills, whitewater canoeing, orienteering, backpacking and whitewater rafting. Camp sessions from late June through late August, 5 days to 3 weeks. Ages 10-18.

You can't go very far at Kingsley Pines without hearing a laugh or seeing a smile. In our safe surroundings and enriching environment, children have the responsibility of choosing their own activities. They develop a higher level of self-confidence and form friendships that last forever. Our camp is so much fun they'll want to come back year after year! Kingsley Pines - it is the way camp should be!

Ages 8-15, Coed, 2 & 3 Week Sessions

Maine Teen Camp represents a dynamic, diverse, and enthusiastic group of teenagers from across the United States and around the world. We are located in southwestern Maine on beautiful Stanley Lake. Each summer, over 275 teens and over 100 staff gather together at MTC, sharing their special interests and unique cultural experiences with each other, creating a supportive environment to explore new and exciting challenges. Mature, experienced, caring staff and a fully elective program.

Activities include: Rock music program, professional tennis instruction, wakeboarding/waterski, land sports, water sports, performance and fine arts, adventure course, academics, trips, and much more! 2-4-6-8 week sessions available.

Rich in the finest Maine camping traditions, Kamp Kohut offers a unique blend of wholesome fun and quality instruction. Surrounded by spectacular Lake Thompson, lush woods and fields, Kohut offers a magnificent setting for our comprehensive and spirited 4-week program, designed to create lifelong friendships, skills & memories. Over 50 different activity selections provide a balanced focus on land and water sports, arts, adventure, and nature-oriented trips. We emphasize teamwork & character development, while celebrating the uniqueness of each individual with an elective program of structured choice.

Our 1:3 counselor: camper ratio provides careful and attentive supervision and instruction. Campers choose three 1-week blocks of 6 activities per day. Boys & Girls, 175 campers, ages 7 - 16.

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.

Overnight camp offering 2 or 4 week sessions for boys and girls 8-15 years old in a non-competitive, nurturing environment. Located on Gould Academy's beautiful campus in the charming town of Bethel, Maine, we offer high quality instruction in visual/performing arts, technology, special interest activities and individual/lifetime sports. We foster a non-competitive atmosphere where campers feel comfortable pursuing new interests as they choose from a variety of activities including acting, improvisation, theater tech, dance (hip hop, modern, ballet, tap, choreography), chorus, drawing/painting, pottery, batik, printmaking, sculpture, jewelry, stained glass, animal care, digital photography, videography, web design, robotics, rocketry, culinary arts, chess, science, tennis, golf, kayaking/canoeing, mountain biking, martial arts and yoga/fitness.

Our director and assistant director make it a priority to communicate actively with parents and stay involved in the day-to-day camp operations. We cultivate a small, inclusive camp community, led by a staff of experienced, professional instructors and mature dorm counselors, creating a 3:1 camper/staff ratio.

Adventure Bound Summer Camp is an outdoor adventure travel camp that offers teens ages 13 to 17 a unique and challenging summer experience. Campers are given the opportunity to choose between 14 and 21 day sessions filled with a host of exhilarating outdoor excursions. Go on scenic hikes, backpack overnight, learn wilderness survival skills, take a relaxing canoe paddle to a remote fishing spot, feel the adrenaline as you learn the technical skills of rock climbing, let your body race down world class rapids on some of New England's most exciting rivers as you learn whitewater rafting and kayaking.

Our specialty is teaching the proper safety and beginner skills to make your outdoor experience a safe and rewarding one. The individual growth of each of our campers is also very important to us. Adventure Bound Summer Camp staff encourages campers to excel at their own speed by challenging them where they are and helping them to get to where they want to be. Located in some of Maine's most pristine wilderness, Adventure Bound offers a beautiful setting for any environmental or outdoor enthusiast to break out of their usual summer time routine and embrace the challenges they've been dreaming of.

C-A-M-P is committed to the creative, artistic and self expression of every participant. Young people flourish through a non-competitive exploration of the creative arts. Dedicated and professional staff support individualized programs fostering each camper's interests, talents and aspirations. Next to Little Bear Pond in Hartford, Maine.

Activities include exploration of the creative arts including music, performance, dance, drama, creative writing, musical theatre and basic film making complement traditional camp activities. A twelve-day overnight intensive in August for ages 7-17.

Since 1915, children from Maine, across the United States, and around the world have been creating memories at our camp that last a lifetime. The "Y Camp is located on Lake Cobbossee in Winthrop, Maine, 7 miles west of Augusta, Maine's state capital. We offer a traditional summer experience for 8-16 year old boys and girls along with special programs including Outdoor Adventure Programs and Leader -In Training.

Activities include: arts and crafts, dramatics, music, nature study, campcraft, hiking, overnight camping, swimming, sailing, canoeing, kayking, water skiing & tubing, windsurfing, ropes course, tennis, archery, aerobics, ping pong, team building, low ropes course, soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, football, softball.

The Laurel Camps are in the forefront of Maine's camping tradition. We take great pride in our camper-centered programs based on the philosophy that each child is a unique individual with personal interests. Each offers quality instruction and an atmosphere that is stimulating, challenging, & provides everyone an opportunity to succeed. Our staff consists of collegians & professionals who are attracted by a program that allows them to be creative, and by a deep personal interest in every camper's welfare and a strong desire to make a difference in a child's life.

Activities consist of Land/Water Sports, Fine Arts, Theatre, Adventure, Riding and more. Each camp boasts such top notch facilities as beautiful waterfront beaches, brand new full-size Theatres, pro-quality baseball fields, new basketball centers, Arts & Crafts areas with new facilities for rocketry, ceramics and radio, extensive ropes courses with extreme climbing walls (including 55 foot climbing towers and bouldering walls), brand new stables and riding rings, newly surfaced state-of-the-art tennis courts and more.