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New Age Camping

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, a crusty old cowboy played by Jack Palance dispenses this bit of wisdom to Billy Crystal’s character (who’s suffering a mid-life crisis), and I’m paraphrasing here, “One thing. Find the

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Skimming The Surface

Campers gather on the beach. Odyssey Expeditions isn’t the traditional overnight camp for children. This summer camp puts its students out on the sea to learn first-hand what it means to be a seaman.

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A Mixed Bag

Located in the ski resort town of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., The Station has as its goal to change lives through action sports. But the activities provided -- snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding, rock

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A Well-Rounded Facility

Located along the shores of Bulls Bay on the Albemarle Sound about an hour from the Outer Banks, the Eastern 4-H Center is North Carolina’s newest 4-H facility, providing a wide variety of services to guests

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Peeling Away The Clutter

Over the last 25 years, and particularly in the last 10 years, Camp Fowler in Lake Pleasant, N.Y., has made intentional decisions that took into account how the world’s natural systems operate. During that time the camp has:

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Climbing To New Heights

Emily started getting ready 20 minutes before siesta ended, and left her cabin 10 minutes before her cabin mates were to be on the ropes course. She was excited about the climbing activities scheduled for the day and wanted to be on time.

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The Centennial Camp

It is sometimes hard to imagine a New England summer camp in the late '50s. It conjures sepia-toned, idyllic images of lakes, mountains and kids running through unspoiled campgrounds and swimming in pristine water.

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The Direct Path

As brothers Dan and George Kuntz surveyed the kids kicking the black-and-white checked ball around, occasionally barking words of encouragement and offering advice, they recognized that this first three-

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Branching Out

It's tough to say which is busier for Kanakuk Kamps, summers or winters. Summer sees thousands of campers traveling to the shores of Table Rock Lake near Branson, Mo., for Kanakuk's brand of Christian

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Nationwide

After they’re dried off and rested from a morning of water skiing, this group of teenagers heads for the rope course, swinging, jumping, whooping and hollering. That night, their voices echo off the lake as they

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Community Storehouse

Do you believe in miracles? At YMCA Storer Camps, located on 1,200 acres of lakefront property in Napoleon, Mich., they certainly do.

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Sailing the Seas

Running a successful camp is about mixing the right ingredients, in the right order, in the right way. Or, for sailors, it's about blending a skilled skipper and crew with a sturdy ship.

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Cascading Along

Let's face it… The Pacific Northwest is a great location for a summer camp, complete with foaming fresh and salt whitewater, enormous timber, dizzying elevation changes and a plethora of lakefronts.

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Back to Basics

More than 60,000 stream through Timber-lee Christian Center's rolling hills to partake in various resident camps, day camps and retreats. To handle this type of volume and the sheer number of programs ongoing

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Adaptation to Excellence

The owners and directors of Camp MaroMac have learned by doing over the years, and the number one lesson they've learned is adaptation. Since Sid and Esther Marovitch bought the camp in 1968, the changes in children's

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Sierra Surroundings

Mountain Camp, located in California's Sierra Mountains near Lake Tahoe, is a technologically-savvy anti-technology camp. These two worlds are effectively compartmentalized and utilized to the camp's advantage.

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Camp, Camp & More Camp

The best camps have a pervasive electricity about them -- a high-voltage feeling that emanates from the director to the counselors and, most importantly, to the campers.

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Action & Interaction

Five years ago, a new camp was added to New Hampshire camps Brookwoods and Deer Run. The camp, Moose River Outpost, was not created as a mere extension of the already-established private camps.

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Access to Adventure

There are five degrees of separation between the two SpringHill Camps. The first camp, Camp 44, located in Evart, Mich., sits at the 44th parallel, while its four-year-old sibling, Camp 39, is five degrees south at the

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Sugar Sand Park Community Center

It was a typical Monday morning last summer at Sugar Sand Park Community Center in Boca Raton, Fla. I walked out of my office to see the bustling actors taking their places. The production assistant