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  Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids

Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities.

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps

• Shiloh, http://bymcamps.org/programs/shiloh-quaker-camp/
• Opequon, http://bymcamps.org/programs/opequon-quaker-camp/
• Teen Adventure , http://bymcamps.org/programs/teen-adventure/
• Catoctin. http://bymcamps.org/programs/catoctin-quaker-camp/

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:

• Dark Waters, NJ, http://www.campdarkwaters. org/
• Onus, PA http://camponas.org/
• Friends Camp, ME http://friendscamp.org/
• Journey's End Farm, PA https://www.journeysendfarm .org/
• Camp Celo, NC http://www.campcelo.com/

3 Camps have a farm focus: Celo, Journey’s End Farm, and Tamarack Farm.

Farm and Wilderness has 5 overnight camps, Vermont

• Saltash Mountain Camp, https://farmandwilderness.org/saltash-mountain/
• Flying Cloud, https://farmandwilderness.org/flying-cloud/
• Tamarack Farm, https://farmandwilderness.org/tamarack-farm/
• Timberlake, https://farmandwilderness.org/timberlake/
• Indian Brook, https://farmandwilderness.org/indian-brook/

Two Camps devoted to the Performing Arts

• Monteverde, Costa Rica, Theater Camp, http://mfschool.org/summer-camp-in-costa-rica/ (This camp is the only bilingual camp)
• Friends Music Camp, Earlham, IN, https://friendsmusiccamp.wordpress.com/

More camps that are non-profits, or connected to Yearly Meetings

• Neekaunis, Ontario, https://www.neekaunis.org/
• Mountain Friends Camp, NM, http://mountainfriendscamp.org/
• Woolman, CA, http://woolman.org
• Woodbrooke, WI, http://www.campwoodbrooke.org/
• Quaker Camp and Service Camp at Ben Lamond, CA http://www.quakercenter.org/summer-youth-camps/

Friends Camps with a Christian Focus

• QuakerLake, NC, http://www.quakerlakecamp.org/
• Twin Rocks Camp, OR http://www.twinrocks.org/
• Camp Tilikum, OR http://camptilikum.org/
• Camp Quaker Haven, KS, https://www.campquakerhaven.org/
• Quaker Haven Camp, IN, http://quakerhaven.com/

Camps owned by individual Friends that are grounded in Quaker values

• Camp Applejack, NY, http://campregis-applejack.com/
• Camp Shohola, PA, http://www.shohola.com/

Other Opportunities for kids of ALL ages:

• Friend General Conference. Yearly Gathering. http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/gathering
• Many residential Yearly Meeting Gatherings are fabulous places for kids to attend. Kids from birth to 8th grade are free at Baltimore Yearly Meeting's Annual Session.
• Some Yearly Meetings have quarterly High School and Middle School conferences.
• Many Friends Schools host summer day camps.
• Many Friends camps also have family camps and work camps.