Adventure summer camps provide a multitude of different types of exciting activities and travel itineraries for campers to participate. Whether it's an expedition in the mountains, a visit to an amusement park, or extreme sports at the beach, a summer adventure camp can provide thrill seekers the excitement they seek.
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1. Frost Valley YMCA - Frost Valley Adventure Trips are an opportunity for teens to make great friends, try new things, develop valuable life skills and have fun in a dynamic and safe environment. Whether through backcountry living, volunteer service, extreme activities or cultural exploration, we strive to create a community where everyone can gain leadership experience, acquire new skills and build healthy relationships with their peers and leaders.
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Resident Camp
Travel Camp
Coed
Claryville, New-YorkMap

Our trips are broken down into three categories.
Wilderness trips are designed for participants who are looking for a challenging, outdoor experience away from civilization and creature comforts. The group will be staying primarily in tents in primitive campsites, which means running water, showers and toilets are not available.Participants will have opportunities to take on leadership roles and learn back-country skills such as how to read a map and compass, knot tying and water purification techniques.

Multi-sport trips are designed for participants who are looking for a fun, outdoor experience. The group will be staying in tents in established campsites and campgrounds (unless otherwise noted) during their trip, where they will have access to showers, flushing toilets and running water. Participants will be responsible for camp chores (setting up tents, cooking, cleaning, etc) and most meals will be prepared by the group members on camping stoves. Trips destinations include Maine, West Virginia, Vermont, White Mountain and more!

Our Service Learning Adventures offer three trips partnered with Habitat for Humanity™ to build, landscape and create a home where a deserving family can start a new life. Gain the community service hours that many high school’s require for graduation, add to your college resume, and most importantly, make great friends and learn new skills while giving a part of yourself to service. (Must be 14 years or older to participate.)

2. Long Lake Adventure Camp - Amazing summer adventure camp for adventureous spirits looking to explore their wild side
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Resident Camp
Coed
Long Lake, New-YorkMap

Your summer adventure begins at Long Lake Camp in New York's Great Adirondack Park. Every day is thrilling as you embark on your unique journey. Campers enjoy all the positive aspects of camp life while living in modern cabins, having great fun and learning skills that will last a lifetime. At Long Lake Adventure Camp our campers have the unique opportunity to create their own schedule from a wide variety of options for each of our seven periods. We go on many exciting trips exploring the Adirondack high peaks, unspoiled rivers, lush forests plus sea plane rides and theme parks with roller coasters and giant water slides! Everyday you can go horseback riding, tubing, ATVing, play paintball, all land and water sports, you can start a rock band or get creative in our fine arts building. Since 1969 our family has provided the most wonderful experiences in summer fun. Campers immediately feel at home enabling them to thrive and grow.


3. Camp Choconut - We are a wilderness camp on a private lake in a square mile campus, a safe place where boys reconnect with nature and build self-respect while having fun! Our small size means lots of individual attention for every boy.
Resident Camp
Family Camp
All Boys
Friendsville, Pennsylvania
NY: Binghamton, Vestal
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No Computers, No Video Games
No I-Pods, No Cell Phones
No Radios, No TVs

Just The Woods & The Lake

Camp Choconut For Boys 9-15
Building Confidence and Self-Reliance
Through Woodland Activities Since 1896

Camp Choconut's pristine private lake and miles of Pennsylvania forest provide the setting for a boy's camp with limited enrollment. Boys get lots of individual attention while learning that they CAN do things for themselves that they may not have imagined before.

Camp Choconut offers a safe place for boys to explore in a clean, natural setting under the supervision of counselors who are carefully chosen as good role models. Our goal is to create a safe, supportive, and fun community based on cooperation, simplicity, and responsibility. Our overnight camp or sleep-away camp allows for the boys to experience living away from home in a safe and friendly environment.

The bell in the center of camp marks our day. It wakes us up, calls us to meals, and marks the time. It can be heard as it echoes across the lake and deep into the woods.

When it rings continuously, it’s known as The Assembly Bell, and campers come running. This rule keeps us ready in the event of an emergency, but usually just signals the start of a Big Game.

We have two "details" every morning, mandatory periods where the boys learn archery, knife, hatchet and map reading skills, make things in the wood shop, work on group construction projects, and gardening.
That is followed by a compulsory swim where we work on building skills so they can pass the Lake Test, a 1/4-mile swim.

After drying off, it is time for milkshakes, which is followed by Jury, where the boys meet together with the Director to solve and discuss camp issues as a group.

Then it is lunch, rest period and free time. Counselors announce where they will be and the boys are welcome to choose their activity or make their own. Either way they are supported in an activity they want to do.

Then it is dinner, where cereal is always available (an old camp tradition), followed by the evening game and bed.

This routine is punctuated by special events – bonfires, campouts, hikes, evening swims, stargazing during meteor showers and trips.

We take the boys on a clear night to our fields to look at the heavens through, to a dry creek bed littered with fossils they can collect, and to a magical land of waterfalls, they can play in and sit under.

Then there are the Big Games. The Flour Bomb Wars have two teams of boys armed with paper lunch bags filled with baking flour. They must attack and defend a cabin simultaneously.

The most anticipated of the Big Games is the Villa Hunt. It’s origins date back to World War One. Pancho Villa and his Raiding Party are secretly chosen and spend weeks preparing to raid the camp. When the whole camp is together, they run shouting through the assembly, then disappear into the woods. The boys and counselors break into teams and scramble to get their things together for a three-day game of hide-and-seek over a square mile of woods, fields and streams.

Our program is designed to help boys rise above their limitations and learn self-respect. They do their best to meet expectations not from threat of punishment, but from a sense of responsibility to others. They have so much fun; they don’t realize they’re growing.


4. French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts - French Woods features individualized programming for ages seven to seventeen. Select from theatre, dance, music, circus, art, sports, riding and much more. Spend the summer of your life in the scenic western Catskills.
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Resident Camp
Coed
Hancock, New-YorkMap

French Woods offers summer camp programs in dance, theater, music, circus, magic, visual arts, sports, and horseback riding programs. Each child, works with our staff to design his or her own unique summer experience. Campers are able to focus on one particular area of interest, or they may choose to select a variety of activities. We are at the same time, a theater camp, an art camp, a dance camp, a circus camp, a horseback riding camp, a sports camp, a magic camp, and a camp that offers all the traditional camp activites, with world class programs that each child can choose a-la-cart.

French Woods is located on a private lake in the western Catskill mountains of New York State near the Delaware river and the Pennsylvania Border. The camp is approximately two and a half hours from New York City between Monticello and Binghamton.

5. Ocean Classroom Seafaring Adventure Camp - One and two week learning adventures along the New England Coast for young people ages 13-19, sailing and living aboard the schooners Spirit of Massachusetts, Harvey Gamage, and Westward.
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Resident Camp
Travel Camp
Coed
Boothbay Harbor, Maine
MA
CT
RI
NH
NY
NJ
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When you climb the gangway to the deck, you step away from the familiar routines of school, friends, and family, and begin your own personal voyage of discovery. Your home is a magnificent 19th century-style sailing ship, cruising the New England Coast.
You become a sailor, standing watch, tending sheets, and steering your ship with pride as she scuds along before a fresh breeze. You watch whales, seals, and dolphins in their natural habitats, and observe the ocean world through hands-on investigations led by dynamic instructors eager to share their passion for ocean stewardship.

You’ll visit historic ports along the coast and her islands, including historical sites and museums, and be submerged in maritime culture through the stories, legends, superstitions, and myths of sailing ships and the sea. The rewards are found in moonlight nights with a gentle breeze…in knowing the names of the stars… and in feeling at home in the vastness of the ocean world.

You experience this voyage with strangers who will quickly become friends – friendships born through shared adventure. You become a respected member of a close-knit community, and what you learn about yourself is the true bounty of your voyage. Welcome aboard!

6. Park Slope Day Camp Inc.
Day Camp
Coed
Brooklyn, New-York
7. American Trails West Teen Tours - US, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Europe, Hotel & Dorm or Camping, Hotel & Dorm teen tours, Activity oriented, Great supervision, 3-6 weeks
Travel Camp
Coed
Great Neck, New-York

American Trails West Teen Tours, with 46 years of experience in student travel, offers the most wonderful summer adventures imaginable. ATW participants can raft the best rivers, hike sandstone canyon trails, or ski down Alpine mountains, while enjoying the excitement and entertainment of major cities. Itineraries include the East Coast, Western United States, Canada, Hawaii, Alaska, and Europe. Teen Tour Participants can choose exciting combination resort, hotel, camping and dorm trips, or deluxe resort, hotel and dorm tours. These 2 to 5 week programs offer a skillful blend of outdoor activities, sightseeing, sports, and evening entertainment. ATW accepts travelers from 13 to 17 years old, but each group is made up of students of the same age, traveling with a highly experienced staff of young adults who understand and relate to teenagers. A summer of travel with American Trails West Teen Tours is a broadening experience in discovering new places, and an opportunity to make friends with fellow travelers from across the United States, Canada and Europe. Our unique MINI TEEN TOURS, specially designed for middle school students in the NY/NJ Metropolitan Area and the Philadelphia/Cherry Hill area, feature travel from Monday to Friday, with weekends at home. The Mini Tours are hotel programs with destinations ranging from Virginia Beach to Niagara Falls, from Maine to Orlando. Our two GET-A-WAY tours travel for 2 weeks at a time, you can choose either one or both.

8. International House New York - H New York students come from all over the world and have a wide range of English language levels. But they study together with the common goal of learning English, making new friends and exploring the most exciting city in the world.
Resident Camp
Coed
New York, New-York

Broadway, the Met, Carnegie Hall, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Rockefeller Center, the Brooklyn Bridge, Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building: so many world-renowned icons in one place! Few cities in the world can be considered a center for world-class art, theater, architecture, dance, literature, design, fashion and sports. But New York has it all.

New York's attractions make it an extraordinary place to visit, and an even better place to study English. This is why International House New York brings both of these experiences together to create the ultimate educational adventure.

With IH New York you have guaranteed professionalism with our staff and programs for teenagers.

IH New York students come from all over the world and have a wide range of English language levels. But they study together with the common goal of learning English, making new friends and exploring the most exciting city in the world.

With International House you can rest assured that everything for your trip is already arranged. We can organize to have students met at the airport and taken to the university campus. Upon arrival, students will find the university setting to be a supportive and friendly environment as they begin first-rate English classes. Not only will students improve their spoken, written, reading and listening skills, but they will learn new grammar and build their vocabulary and fluency both inside and outside of the classroom.

Our supervised off-site excursions take students all over the city and make the most of the wonders of New York. Also, our on-site activities allow students to meet up with classmates from all over the world.

9. Camp Nashopa Adventure Club - Summer Camp AND Outdoor Adventure Club - Serving ALL of New York ( and located near Orange County, Ulster County, Sullivan County, Dutchess County) , major nearby Towns - Newburgh, Middletown, Monticello, Liberty, Monroe, Walkill, Walden NY and just 55 minutes from NYC (New York City)
Resident Camp
Adult Camp
Day Camp
Family Camp
Coed
All Boys
All Girls
Bloomingburg, New-York

CAMP NASHOPA ADVENTURE CLUB

SUMMER CAMP and Recreation Activity Park

**OPEN YEAR ROUND**

Located in the HUDSON VALLEY AREA of NEW YORK
1 mile off Route 17
55 minutes from NYC / 15 minutes from the Catskills (mts)

TAKING RESERVATIONS NOW, FOR YOUR
Privates Parties, School Trips, Scouting Adventures and Corporate Events.

BIRTHDAY PARTIES ! Many packages to choose fom !

We also have many seasonal activities thru out our park.

Ask about our Team Building, and newly added PAINTBALL & ReBall !

Large capacity Rustic Lodging
Rough Camping
Concession stand
Large Rec Hall w/raised stage + sound system

CALL or EMAIL for Daily Admission price, Group Rates, more info, or for reservations.


We are constantly adding more activities so call or email us to join our mailing list !


10. 360° Student Travel - Our 30th summer of showing teenagers the summer of a lifetime! 7 programs types on 6 continents in 19 countries –Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador/Galapagos, Europe, Fiji, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.
Travel Camp
Coed
Mamaroneck, New-York

360° Student Travel by Westcoast Connection allows you to step in a new direction. Travel, volunteer, improve your foreign language skills or get a taste of the college life. Regardless of travel style, all of our programs are created with the understanding that no matter what you want to accomplish during the summer, it is still summer, and the challenges and experiences should be enjoyable as well as rewarding. By moving outside of their comfort zone, 360° trip members experience different cultures and new adventures that encourage self-development, group bonding, and an unparalleled sense of discovery.
360° Student Travel offers 7 program types on 6 continents in 19 countries – Active Teen Tours, Community Service, Language Programs, Pre-College Enrichment, Global Adventures and ON TOUR for 11th and 12th Grade Completing Students in Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador/Galapagos, Europe (England, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland), Fiji, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, Thailand and the United States (including Alaska & Hawaii).

11. Eden Village Camp - Jewish environmental overnight camp for a vibrant, sustainable world! Campers build leadership, outdoor skills, purpose & joy in compassionate community with organic farming, wilderness, science, arts, music, zero-waste goal, sports & more!
Resident Camp
Coed
Putnam Valley, New-York

Want to learn to milk goats and make feta cheese? Snack on cherry tomatoes and raspberries from your bunk-side garden? Hand-harvest wheat from our on-site organic farm, collect eggs, make a clay oven... and bake truly home-made challah? Live in a thriving, inspired, down-to-earth Jewish community and make friends who also get excited at learning to play guitar and drums, getting to know local wild edibles, botany, ecology, geology, animal-tracking and more, building fires and fort villages in the woods, creating homegrown art, dance and music, sailing, boating, swimming, sports and so much more?

Want to spend the summer having a blast while creating positive change in the world?

Eden Village Camp is a unique non-profit Jewish environmental overnight camp, supporting 3rd-12th-grade girls and boys in gaining leadership and outdoor living skills, and awakening their sense of connectedness, purpose and joy.

Located 50 miles north of NYC and touching the Appalachian Trail, the beautiful 248-acre camp brings an innovative environmental program to the best of traditional camp. The experience includes organic farming, outstanding organic Kosher food, animal care, wilderness adventure, natural science, a zero-waste goal, pool & lake, biking, climbing, music, arts, sports, service projects, amazing staff, culture of kindness... all in a vibrant Jewish community!

Our campers have fun while deepening their understanding and appreciation for themselves, their communities, their Judaism, and the natural systems that sustain us.

Eden Village Camp aims to be a living model of a thriving, sustainable Jewish community, grounded in social responsibility and inspired Jewish spiritual life. By bringing the wisdom of our tradition to the environmental, social, and personal issues important to today’s young people, we practice a Judaism that is substantive and relevant. Through our Jewish environmental and service-learning curricula, joyful Shabbat observance, pluralistic Jewish expression, and inspiring, diverse staff role models, we foster our campers’ positive Jewish identity and genuine commitment to tikkun olam (healing the world).

Our 1:3 staff:camper ratio and gifted, kid-specialist bunk counselors ensure focus on the needs of each camper. Our specialists are professionals in their field. Eden Village Camp adheres to, and often exceeds, industry standards for health, safety and hygiene, and Directors Yoni and Vivian Stadlin bring a wealth of camp experience to Eden Village Camp.

Great scholarships and incentives are available. Yoni and Vivian would love to hear from you at (877) 397-3336 (EDEN)!

12. Peconic Dunes 4-H Camp - Located on the beautiful north fork of Long Island, Peconic Dunes is the perfect setting for learning about our Island's bountiful natural resources while enjoying the great outdoors.
Resident Camp
Travel Camp
Day Camp
Family Camp
Coed
Southold, New-York

Peconic Dunes Summer Camp provides 2 programs to meet the needs of our campers. Our 4-H overnight and day programs include basketball, kayaking, soccer, softball, swimming, canoeing, archery, campfires and cookouts. The E.C.O. program gives campers a chance to work on a variety of projects including, pond study, marine science, forest and woodlands. Training in outdoor survival skills as well as fishing and environmental crafts are part of both programs. Peconic Dunes Camp is co-educational, offering sleep away or day camp experiences for children ages 7-17.

13. YMCA Camp Onyahsa - Camp Onyahsa offers an exciting and rewarding experience for any camper. On Chautauqua Lake, we offer traditional camp sessions, specialty camps, academic programs, teen activities, leadership programs, waterfront events and much more.
Resident Camp
Day Camp
Family Camp
Coed
Dewittville, New-York

"For Fun, For Friends, Forever;" this is the heart of the Onyahsa experience- for the new camper or the veteran. Since its inception well over a century ago, YMCA Camp Onyahsa has been a great place for youth and families. Then as now, it offers security, authenticity, peace, and exciting fun; as necessary today as ever. In a beautiful wooded setting, on the edge of the lake, we don't only enjoy recreation; we aim to "re-create" in the Great Outdoors.

Celebrating its 112th year in 2010, Camp Onyahsa offers an exciting, genuine, and rewarding experience for any camper. Nestled in its own wooded bay on northern Chautauqua Lake, we offer traditional camp sessions, specialty camps, academic programs, teen activities, leadership development programs, extensive waterfront classes, outdoor environmental education, and much more. Each of our weeks has a fun theme as the focus of its activities, and is implemented by caring, committed and competent staff members.

Campers live in rustic single-sex, age-graded cabins or tents under the supervision of carefully selected and trained staff members. The Camp's directors and health staff also reside on site, and provide 24 hour per day supervision, and the Camp has a staff to camper ratio of at least 1:8.

All campers participate together in our special activities, such as campfires, skits, Club Time, theme nights, Olympic games, village nights, and other all-camp programs. Meanwhile, through age-group cabin and tent living with their adult counselors, campers learn as members of small groups to share and live cooperatively. The activities and living areas are staffed with well-qualified and highly committed counselors, who share the goal of making a stay at Onyahsa a truly rewarding experience for all members of the Camp Community.

The Onyahsa mission is to foster the healthy Spiritual, Intellectual, and Physical well-being of Camp Participants from diverse backgrounds within a nurturing outdoor environment, while creating a meaningful sense of Community among them through an active learning experience.

Here we seek to encourage Spiritual growth- through a non-denominational stress on compassion, social justice, human rights, and the strengthening of faith in a loving Creator; Intellectual growth by fostering tolerance, self-awareness, and multi-cultural mutual understanding- the foundations of peace; Physical health, an appreciation for the gift of life and a responsibility to nurture it; and the creation of Community- an authentic experience of belonging created by diverse members who share traditional common values including honesty, caring, respect, and responsibility.

The Onyahsa experience is set in a beautiful, natural outdoor environment, and is fostered by committed, caring and competent staff members and volunteers. Our goal is to provide a genuine, safe, healthy, and happy camp experience for youth and families through life-enriching, "back-to-basics" organized summer and year-round programs.

Join us for this wonderful, exciting, and necessary experience. And whether it's for the first time or the hundredth, Come Home to Camp Onyahsa.

14. Forrestel Riding & Sports Camp - Forrestel Farm Riding & Sport camp is a fully accredited ACA camp, established in 1980. We offer one, two and four week co-educational sessions ages 7-16.
Resident Camp
Day Camp
Family Camp
Coed
All Girls
Medina, New-York

Forrestel Farm Riding & Sport camp is a fully accredited ACA camp, established in 1980. We offer one, two and four week co-educational sessions ages 7-16. Our historic 800 acre working farm is located 40 miles east of Niagara Falls, NY. There are two outstanding programs: equestrian and outdoor adventure & sports. Whether choosing to ride 2 to 4 hours daily or participate in teambuilding, high adventure and sports activities, campers at Forrestel always have a blast! Imagine horseback riding, adventure activities, and sports spread out over our working farm. Forrestel campers laugh and play, swim and fish, ride, run, and skip- the way we used to so long ago. Established in 1980 and accredited by the American Camp Association, the camp is located between Rochester and Buffalo, New York. Forrestel provides campers with a safe and nurturing environment where they are inspired to succeed. There are one, two and four week sessions for youngsters ages 7-16. Some sessions are co-ed and some are just for girls. To inquire about our excellent program, dates & rates please call 585/798-2222.

15. Beaver Camp - Lessons in Life... Experiences in Adventure. Contact us for more information and standard or online registration.
Resident Camp
Travel Camp
Day Camp
Family Camp
Coed
Lowville, New-York
16. Westcoast Connection - Active Teen Tours - Our 30th summer of showing teenagers the summer of a lifetime! 7 programs types on 6 continents in 19 countries –Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador/Galapagos, Europe, Fiji, Israel, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.
Travel Camp
Coed
Mamaroneck, New-York

From our first trip exploring the western USA and Canada, we could never have imagined how many thousands of teens would come to share in our spirited groups and travel with us on 7 program types in 6 continents throughout 19 countries .

30 years ago, Westcoast Connection / 360° Student Travel began with a modest goal of using exciting, memorable travel to teach and inspire teenagers and to enhance their understanding of themselves along the way. Our philosophy of “EACH & EVERY” is the cornerstone of our programs; “EACH” focuses on respecting the individual, looking for what makes each student unique and avoiding a one size fits all approach while “EVERY” reminds us that no matter how incredible a site like Bryce Canyon or Machu Picchu might be, the experience would fall below expectations unless we created tightly knit groups where everybody is included in an enriching program. With amazing sights, activities, accommodations and restaurants, there's no doubt that Westcoast Connection will show you the "perfectly planned, perfectly paced" summer of a lifetime.

17. Maximum Teen Travel Camp
Travel Camp
Coed
Oceanside, New-York
18. Samuel Field Y - Imagine the Possibilities...
Travel Camp
Day Camp
Coed
Wheatley Heights, New-York

The Samuel Field Y Summer Day camp allows parents the opportunity to build a custom camp for all age groups. Campers have the opportunity to explore our 350 acre campgrounds. The Samuel Field Y Summer Day Camp promotes a community where we teach values and respect and where the children are valued and respected. The Samuel Field Y Summer Day Camp is a place where children learn skills that will carry them through their lifetimes. We are the premier Day camp with a sleep away camp feel.

Call us for more information on a summer that your children will remember for the rest of their life!

19. Camp Summit - CAMP SUMMIT is a GREAT camp! It's a second home to our campers and our favorite place on earth! We have great bunks, clean bathrooms, & terrific food! ----- You WILL fit in and have the time of your life!
Resident Camp
Coed
Wurtsboro, New-York

Believe us! If you haven't been to CAMP SUMMIT, you haven't been to camp!

THIS IS IT! The camp you've always wanted... A place to make the best friends you'll ever have, feel like part of the family and have the time of your life!

We offer both group and individual activities so you can do EVERYTHING, together and on your own, from tennis, hockey & soccer, to swimming, theatre, camp crafts & woodshop. Even challenge yourself with our incredible ropes course, caving programs and overnight adventure trips!

We've got everything you'll ever need in a camp, and your parents will love the safety and professionalism of our trained & nurturing staff. CHECK US OUT!






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