For Youth and Families.  It’s going to be a fun summer at camp with a couple more themed camps. Have you ever wanted just a little more adventure at camp? Well, this is your summer. We’ve scheduled two sessions of ADVENTURE CAMPS, one for younger youth and one for older youth. We’ll camp out in tents, cook a bunch of meals on an open fire, go exploring in kayaks outside of the cove, take some big hikes to explore our beautiful property, and learn more about living in our outdoor setting.

We are also doing another CREATIVE ARTS CAMP. It’s our second year for this…just because it was so much fun to learn some theater techniques to create a performance, paint big paintings, dance in beautiful colors, try our hand at printmaking, and learn new drawing skills. We are lucky to have professional artists and actors on staff at camp that week to bring us a high level of creative education not always available in schools. We’ll still do all the fun camp stuff, too…like swimming, kayaking, archery and roasting marshmallows over campfires. Don’t miss this amazing week.

In addition to FAMILY CAMP, now campers can bring their grandparents to camp for GRANDPARENT & ME CAMP. Won’t it be fun to have grandparents getting to have quality time with their grandchildren? Held on Labor Day weekend, Grandparents and Me Camp will be a great way to spend the weekend. Camp runs Friday evening through Sunday. You’ll still have Labor Day open.

For Adults with Developmental Disabilities: Last summer’s camps for adults with a wide variety of disabilities were overflowing with happy campers. To accommodate the interest, we’ve added another camp this summer–MEADOWLARK CAMP. When trying to name this camp, we contacted longtime camp volunteer, Glenda Bower to educate us on how DDA camps got their names: Arrowhead, Buffalo, and Cottonwood. She said the names were created because the camps used to be called “A Camp”, “B Camp”, and “C Camp”. They didn’t want anyone to think that “A Camp” was better than “B Camp” or “C Camp”, so they gave them word names. Now, we know that Meadowlark doesn’t start with a D, but we thought it very fitting since the Meadowlark is the state bird. Now, you know more of the history of the DDA camps that were started just a few years after the opening of camp in 1963. It’s a ministry we are truly engaged in and proud of.