Quaker Summer Camps 2021

Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids

Quaker camps are in the process of discerning whether and how to open this summer. Please check their websites for up to date information.

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/
• Onas, 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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