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.

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!

The Fresh Air Home provides an environment in which special needs children can socialize, mature and develop physically, emotionally and psychologically. Campers gain new confidence and return home with wonderful memories of fun and new friendships. Many of the children have their first experiences of leadership and competition in an environment of equality and fun.

Children between the ages of 8 to 18 participate in one of two three-week sessions or a one week session. Camp programming is the same as any other summer camp including arts and crafts, music/drama and swimming. Adaptive equipment and flexible rules allow campers to participate in every sport from basketball to hockey. Wheelchair tennis and sailing were recently added. During the summer more than 150 campers participate in the programs.

The Home is one of the few summer residential camp facilities for disabled children in the Eastern United States. It is a barrier-free with paved walks and ramps. Children live in fully equipped dormitories.

Two registered nurses are on campus to provide 24 hour medical attention, a doctor is on call, and Southampton Hospital is five minutes away. There is also a physical therapist on staff.

Waterfront personnel is fully certified including CPR. The staffing ration is 1.5:1, counselors to campers and the majority of the staff are students studying in fields devoted to special needs.

Many of the 150 children who attend each summer are in need of total care and require help in dressing, feeding, bathing toileting and transferring. Others use electric or manual wheelchairs, braces or crutches, while some manage without any appliances. Camp enrollment now includes children from schools, agencies and programs throughout New York and the United States.

The Southampton Fresh Air Home is a not-for-profit corporation which is tax exempt under section 501 c(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is funded by donations from individuals and foundations, and to a limited extent from agencies and fees. The Home does not discriminate against anyone because of inability to pay, race, creed, religion, national origin, sex or handicap.

Tha camp offers a very generous scholarship scheme that is open to all applicants.

Our MISSION is to provide an enriching,, recreational camping experience. We are committed to helping our campers develop physically, emotionally, and educationally, with the goal of fostering esteem, maturity and independence through a broadly balanced program, while providing their families with a well deserved respite.

This organization is dedicated to improving and expanding it's programs and facilities as new opportunities, technology and financial support become available.

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.

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).

"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.

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.

Brand new 5000 square foot heated swimming pool with 80 foot long water slides

Camp Cory is located on the shores of Keuka Lake, just outside Penn Yan, New York in the heart of the Finger Lakes region. Only 60 miles from the city of Rochester, Camp Cory offers 27 beautiful acres along with three beautiful waterfront areas for swimming, sailing, canoeing and a variety of other water activities.

Campers sleep 8 to a cabin with one or two counselors assigned to live in every cabin. Accommodations are basic and bathrooms are shared. The youngest campers have bathrooms and showers inside their cabin, while the older campers use modern bathouses. All meals are enjoyed "family style" in the dining hall and there is a daily opportunity to visit the Camp Store for treats and treasures. A modest amount of money can be put in the camper's "bank" during Sunday registration for use throughout the session.

Campers arrive on Sunday afternoons and depart Saturday mornings. Transportation is available to/from Camp for an additional fee. Campers staying consecutive weeks can remain at camp between sessions through our stayover program. Cabin assignments are made prior to arrival and are based on information provided on the registration materials. There is an opportunity to request one roommate on the form. Campers are placed in cabins with other campers of similar age and grade.

Our staff receives extensive training in leadership skills, first aid and safety, as well as the various program areas. The majority of our staff are also certified lifeguards. Since some of our counselors are international students, campers often have the opportunity of getting to know staff members from all over the world!

Camp Cory also offers 9 Sessions of Day Camp as well as year round programming and rentals.

Founded over 100 years ago, we focus on personal growth fueled by fun – sports, arts, adventure and camaraderie. Nestled in the gorgeous Adirondack Mountains, surrounded by pristine Lake George, this upstate New York sleep-away camp for boys and girls is a wondrous environment that will enliven your child’s spirit. We welcome your children to the best summer of their lives!