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Every day is a fun-filled adventure! The first day at camp is special because…. It’s the first day at camp! We call it opening day, and it is how we start each session.

A week-end at camp is a whole new adventure that transplants campers to a different world, a different time, or a different place!

OPENING DAY (Sunday)
Arrive and check-in between 2:00-4:00PM (Refer to the parent handbook for more details)

Move into cabin
Meet cabin mates and cabin counselor (parents depart)
As a cabin group, take an exciting fun-filled tour of camp
Do a swim test and pool orientation
Dinner with the cabin group
Choose activities for the week
Village time, meet others in the village
Opening Camp-fire as a whole camp (be prepared to sing crazy songs!)
Bed (9:30-10:30, depending on village


After opening day, the typical schedule remains the same until the weekend. Once a session each cabin group will experience an overnight camp out on our property. Throughout each session there is also the option to sign up for trips. These Adventure Challenge Unit (ACU) trips are typically ½ day or full day trips into the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Campers may sign up to take a trip rock climbing, river canoeing, eco-challenge hikes and more! All trips are led and supervised by our specially trained staff.

Here is a typical weekday schedule…
7:40 Reveille
8:00 Flag gathering/Breakfast/Cabin & area Clean-up
9:30 Period ONE (you choose your activity!)
10:30 Period TWO (you choose your activity!)
11:30 Period THREE (you choose your activity!)
12:30 Lunch (JR Trading post)
1:30 Siesta (rest and relax in cabins)
2:30 Period FOUR (sr swim, jr’s choose activities)
3:30 Period FIVE (jr swim, sr’s choose activities)
4:30 Cabin Time
5:30 Flag gathering / Dinner (Mail Call)
6:30 Senior Trading Post / Hang time on the courts
Junior Evening Activity
7:30 Senior Evening Activity
8:30 Junior recall from evening activity
9:30 Senior Recall from evening activity
Junior lights out
10:30 Senior lights out

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A weekend at camp is a whole new adventure!
Weekend at Camp
Campers staying for only 2 weeks get to experience our famous theme weekends. These are filled with crazy activities and events that are unique and different from a typical day at camp. Carnivals, raft battles, dances, fashion shows, giant camp wide games, skits, barbeques, color wars, goofy Olympics, and all sorts of random activities related to each theme! We might spend a day dressed up like space aliens, or cowboys, or movie stars, or cavemen, or superheroes. Be prepared for anything.

Campers staying for 4 weeks get a special treat during the mid-session. We load up campers and staff in chartered busses and head to Knoebels Family Amusement Park in Pennsylvania. We spend the day picnicking, riding the rides, and enjoying the best small family style amusement park on the east coast!

2008 weekend themes:
Session 1A American Gladiator
Session 1B TBA
Session 2A Hollywood Weekend
Session 2B MasonStock

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