Teen Adventure Camp

The waterfront offers a wide variety of activities for all our campers! Campers can go kayaking and paddleboarding, enjoy a refreshing swim in the swimming area, or try their luck at fishing along the shoreline.  We stock our lake every year with fish, so most kids can find success with a fishing rod at our lake. Who knows, you might even catch a glimpse of the elusive Sarah the Whale somewhere in the lake!

• Swimming – The water is truly fine up at camp! Our swimming area has one of the best views you can ask for, and during the summer, the water is just cold enough to take the edge off the heat from the sun.
• Kayaking/Paddleboarding – Want to just relax and take in the view around the lake? Kids can kayak or paddleboard around in the sun and enjoy the beautiful scenery while gliding across the water.
• Fishing – Many catch their first fish at our lake; our staff learn to fish themselves and know lots of tips and tricks to ensure that kids find success no matter what! It helps that our lake is private and we stock it every year with trout and bass though!

Our teens get to take advantage of our camp’s amazing location by taking a trip to one of the amazing opportunities around us! Each season is a different trip, with some rotating back by popularity every few years. Trips from recent seasons have included:

• Cat Haven – A 93-acre zoo just west of camp, the teens get to go on a guided tour of some of the rarest cats in the world. While learning about the conservation efforts and programs designed to keep these species around for future generations.
• Boyden Caves – An amazing marble cavern in the Sequoia National Forest. The caves feature stalactites, stalagmites, flowstone, and other natural features that have taken millions of years to form!
• King’s Canyon & Sequoia National Parks – Teens can visit some of the largest and oldest trees on the planet, including the General Grant, General Sherman, and others.

At Arts & Crafts Shed, campers get to dive into their creativity! Their imaginations can run wild with materials for painting, making lanyards and bracelets, bead crafts, weaving, coloring, and more! Each cabin also gets to design and paint their own special plaque that stays at camp as part of a mural each year, so each camper and staff get a chance to leave their mark on camp!

• Fabric Paint/Tye Dye – Bring a shirt, bag, or hat to make uniquely yours at our craft shed. Don’t have one to bring? That’s ok, we sell plain white Y tees in the shop for just that reason!
• Cabin Plaques – Each Camper gets to leave their mark on camp with their whole cabin! Each cabin designs and decorates their plaque with their names and memories from the week to stay at camp for forever as part of a mural.
• Other Crafts – Bracelet and Lanyard Making, Melting Beads, Weaving, coloring activities, modeling clay, and many, many more activities await!

Teens challenge themselves on our climbing and adventure courses; our youngest kids get to scale our rock wall, older kids and teens can try our zipline and adventure course, and our older teens experience teambuilding and the challenge of the Giant’s Ladder. Campers can enjoy thrilling experiences high above the ground or team up for exciting challenges together to create memories along the way!

• Climbing Wall – All our campers 8+ get to climb the climbing wall and then rappel down! Challenging themselves and experiencing a new high!
• High Ropes & Zipline – After conquering the Climbing wall, Teens get to scale the high ropes obstacle course and then zipline down from the top in a challenging adventure!
• Giant’s Ladder – Teens get to challenge themselves and each other in the ultimate teambuilding activity by climbing the Giant’s ladder together. The only way up is together!

The best part about being at camp is the amazing location! Camp offers a wide variety of outdoor experiences with varying difficulties for different age groups. Teens can enjoy activities such as basketball, volleyball, gaga ball, soccer, our ‘Ninja Warrior’ course, and more. We also teach outdoor skills like fire or shelter building, and archery. This is the perfect place for teens to spend time outside, having some friendly competition or just some fun!

• Hiking – Camp is in the heart of the Sequoia National Forest, and we take advantage of our beautiful location. Every group goes on at least one hike and gets to experience the ecological marvel that is our forest!
• Archery – A mainstay of summer camps worldwide, kids can unleash their inner Robin Hood and try to master the art of the bow and arrow!
• Field Sports – Teens get to get out and run and play! Just the great outdoors, fresh air, and a ball of some kind to enjoy their surroundings! Every day we do some kind of sport whether its Soccer, Volleyball, Basketball, Gaga Ball, Kick Ball, or just about any other sport with a ball!
• Outdoor Skills – We teach the fun stuff of being outdoors, like how to build a shelter, or safely start and manage a fire, tie knots, read a compass and map, or many other useful skills!

Our teens get multiple opportunities throughout the week to practice their communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills. Whether solving challenges as a team, leading younger campers through activities, or taking charge of a camp wide event, they learn responsibly and master group dynamics together while at camp.

• Team Building – Teens challenge themselves with their cabins to overcome challenges and obstacles together. Our talented counselors guide them through activities that cannot be completed alone and help them learn to communicate and cooperate together.
• Leadership – Each week, the teens take on an activity that they learn themselves, then later in the week, they help the younger cabins do the same activity. Learning with their counselors how to lead and teach others something they’ve learned themselves.
• Group Organization – Every week, we hold a Talent show in camp, and with guidance from their counselors, the Teens are responsible for the sign-ups, schedule, and to MC the event!