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Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids

Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities. Many have subsidies for low-income and members of Friends meetings.

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps

• Catoctin. http://bymcamps.org/programs/catoctin-quaker-camp/
• Opequon, http://bymcamps.org/programs/opequon-quaker-camp/
• Shiloh, http://bymcamps.org/programs/shiloh-quaker-camp/
• Teen Adventure , http://bymcamps.org/programs/teen-adventure/

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

• Camp Celo, NC http://www.campcelo.com/
• Dark Waters, NJ, http://www.campdarkwaters. org/
• Friends Camp, ME http://friendscamp.org/
• Journey’s End Farm, PA https://www.journeysendfarm .org/
• Onus, PA http://camponas.org/

Farm and Wilderness has 6 overnight camps, Vermont

• Flying Cloud, https://farmandwilderness.org/flying-cloud/
• Indian Brook, https://farmandwilderness.org/indian-brook/
• Questers https://farmandwilderness.org/questers/
• Red Spruce Grove https://farmandwilderness.org/red-spruce-grove/
• Saltash Mountain Camp, https://farmandwilderness.org/saltash-mountain/
• Tamarack Farm, https://farmandwilderness.org/tamarack-farm/
• Timberlake, https://farmandwilderness.org/timberlake/

Two Camps devoted to the Performing Arts

• Friends Music Camp, Earlham, IN, https://friendsmusiccamp.wordpress.com/
• Monteverde, Costa Rica, Theater Camp, http://mfschool.org/summer-camp-in-costa-rica/ (This camp is the only bilingual camp)

More camps that are non-profits, or connected to Yearly Meetings

• Mountain Friends Camp, NM, http://mountainfriendscamp.org/
• Neekaunis, Ontario, https://www.neekaunis.org/
• Quaker Service and Art Camp at Ben Lamond, CA http://www.quakercenter.org
• Woodbrooke, WI, http://www.campwoodbrooke.org/
• Woolman, CA, http://woolman.org

Friends Camps with a Christian emphasis and some with connections to Yearly Meetings

• Camp Quaker Haven, KS, https://www.campquakerhaven.org/
• Camp Quaker Heights, IA, https://www.campquakerheights.org/quakercamps
• Camp Tilikum, OR http://camptilikum.org/
• Quaker Haven Camp, IN, http://quakerhaven.com/
• Quaker Knoll Camp, OH, https://quakerknoll.org/quaker-knoll-summer-camps/
• Quaker Lake, NC, http://www.quakerlakecamp.org/
• Twin Rocks Camp, OR http://www.twinrocks.org/

Camps owned by individual Friends that are grounded in Quaker testimonies of radical equality and practices of listening, sharing, connection, and service.

• Camp Applejack, NY, http://campregis-applejack.com/
• Camp Shohola, PA, https://www.shohola.com/

Other Opportunities for kids of ALL ages:

• Friend General Conference. Provides an annual 6 night gathering for more than 1000 Friends off all age groups around the 1^st week of July. http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering
• Many residential Yearly Meeting Gatherings are fabulous places for kids to attend.
• Some Yearly Meetings have quarterly High School and Middle School conferences.
• Many Friends Schools host summer day camps.
• Three Camps have a farm focus: Celo, Journey‚Äôs End Farm, and Tamarack Farm.
• Many Friends camps also have family camps, and work camps.

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