Quaker Summer Sleep-Away Opportunities for Kids
Most Friends Camps are affordable and provide a range of activities.
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camps
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:
Several camps have a farm focus including Celo and Journey’s End Farm.
Farm and Wilderness has multiple overnight camps in Vermont, including:
Tamarack Farm also has a farm focus.
Two Camps devoted to the Performing Arts
- Monteverde, Costa Rica, Theater Camp
This camp is the only bilingual camp. - Friends Music Camp, Earlham, IN
More camps that are non-profits, or connected to Yearly Meetings
- Neekaunis, Ontario
- Mountain Friends Camp, NM
- Woolman, CA
- Woodbrooke, WI
- Quaker Camp and Service Camp at Ben Lamond, CA
Friends Camps with a Christian Focus
- QuakerLake, NC
- Twin Rocks Camp, OR
- Camp Tilikum, OR
- Camp Quaker Haven, KS
- Quaker Haven Camp, IN
Camps owned by individual Friends that are grounded in Quaker values
- Camp Applejack, NY
- Camp Shohola, PA
Other Opportunities for kids of ALL ages:
- Friend General Conference. Yearly 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.