Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids
Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps
- Shiloh, http://bymcamps.org/programs/shiloh-quaker-camp/ [1]
- Opequon, http://bymcamps.org/programs/opequon-quaker-camp/ [2]
- Teen Adventure , http://bymcamps.org/programs/teen-adventure/ [3]
- Catoctin. http://bymcamps.org/programs/catoctin-quaker-camp/ [4]
For families who seek over-night Friends summer camp for 6, 7, and 8 year-olds.
Five Friends' camps (on the US East Coast) fill the need. Registration for some begin in early December and camps can fill up in hours.
Those camps include:
- Dark Waters, NJ, http://www.campdarkwaters. org/ [5]
- Onus, PA http://camponas.org/ [6]
- Friends Camp, ME http://friendscamp.org/ [7]
- Journey's End Farm, PA https://www.journeysendfarm .org/ [8]
- Camp Celo, NC http://www.campcelo.com/ [9]
3 Camps have a farm focus: Celo, Journey’s End Farm, and Tamarack Farm.
Farm and Wilderness has 5 overnight camps, Vermont
- Saltash Mountain Camp, https://farmandwilderness.org/saltash-mountain/ [10]
- Flying Cloud, https://farmandwilderness.org/flying-cloud/ [11]
- Tamarack Farm, https://farmandwilderness.org/tamarack-farm/ [12]
- Timberlake, https://farmandwilderness.org/timberlake/ [13]
- Indian Brook, https://farmandwilderness.org/indian-brook/ [14]
Two Camps devoted to the Performing Arts
- Monteverde, Costa Rica, Theater Camp, http://mfschool.org/summer-camp-in-costa-rica/ [15] (This camp is the only bilingual camp)
- Friends Music Camp, Earlham, IN, https://friendsmusiccamp.wordpress.com/ [16]
More camps that are non-profits, or connected to Yearly Meetings
- Neekaunis, Ontario, https://www.neekaunis.org/ [17]
- Mountain Friends Camp, NM, http://mountainfriendscamp.org/ [18]
- Woolman, CA, http://woolman.org [19]
- Woodbrooke, WI, http://www.campwoodbrooke.org/ [20]
- Quaker Camp and Service Camp at Ben Lamond, CA http://www.quakercenter.org/summer-youth-camps/ [21]
Friends Camps with a Christian Focus
- QuakerLake, NC, http://www.quakerlakecamp.org/ [22]
- Twin Rocks Camp, OR http://www.twinrocks.org/ [23]
- Camp Tilikum, OR http://camptilikum.org/ [24]
- Camp Quaker Haven, KS, https://www.campquakerhaven.org/ [25]
- Quaker Haven Camp, IN, http://quakerhaven.com/ [26]
Camps owned by individual Friends that are grounded in Quaker values
- Camp Applejack, NY, http://campregis-applejack.com/ [27]
- Camp Shohola, PA, http://www.shohola.com/ [28]
Other Opportunities for kids of ALL ages:
- Friend General Conference. Yearly Gathering. http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering [29]
- Many residential Yearly Meeting Gatherings are fabulous places for kids to attend. Kids from birth to 8th grade are free at Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Annual Session [30].
- Some Yearly Meetings have quarterly High School and Middle School conferences.
- Many Friends Schools host summer day camps.
- Many Friends camps also have family camps and work camps.