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Summer Camp Guide 2023

We will update this guide regularly as more camps finalize their schedules. Call the camp or check their website for the most up-to-date information. 

Camps directors, if you’d like to be on our list, reach out via email.

Did we miss a really great camp? Please email us suggestions!

Camps are listed geographically, click on a region to jump down.

Middlebury, Bridport, Cornwall, Ripton, Weybridge
New Haven, Bristol, Lincoln
Vergennes, Ferrisbergh
Monkton, Starksboro, Hinesburg, Huntington
Salsibury, Brandon, Orwell, Hubbardton
Sports Camps
Overnight Camps

Middlebury, Bridport, Cornwall, Ripton, Weybridge

Addison Central Teens

Explore the Chittenden Brook Hut, learn photography from local artist Josh Hummel, camp out at Branbury State Park, do some “art bombing,” get into theater and more at these weeklong day camps for teens. Find all the programs here.

  • Ages: 12-16
  • Dates: weekly sessions, July 5 through August 18
  • Times: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: pay what you can
  • Tuition Assistance: n/a

Aurora Preschool

Each week will look a bit different but will include hikes, crafts, music, group games, guided activities, free choices, dramatic play, forest exploration and discovery.

  • Ages: 3-6
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: N/A

Better Days Ranch

Horse camp for beginner and experienced riders in Bridport.

  • Ages: 5 and up
  • Dates: June 19 through August 25, weekly sessions
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: $350/week
  • Contact: [email protected]

Bridge School

Bridge School Summer Camp is a holistic summer camp experience. All weeks of camp include a fun and balanced approach to the day; blending crafts with outdoor free play, energetic group games, music and storytelling. And, of course, we enjoy eating together — all campers please bring a sack lunch, snack and water bottle.

  • Ages: entering grades 1-7
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition assistance: If the child receives subsidy from the state

Camp Kookamunga (Middlebury Parks & Rec)

Middlebury Parks & Rec offers this day camp each year based at Memorial Sports Center and full of field trips, hikes, games, crafts, sports and other activities.

  • Ages: entering grades 1-7
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: TBD

Camp Terrahana

Camp Terrahana is located in Middlebury’s Wright Park and Ripton’s Terrahana Forest. Enjoy the Vermont forests in summertime as we play lots of games, gather around campfires, tell stories, experiment with natural crafts, and let ourselves be wild and free!

Registration open February 8, 6 p.m., through February 12, noon.

  • Ages: 6-13
  • Dates: June 26 through August 25, weekly sessions
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: $250/week
  • Tuition Assistance: TBD

Eddy Farm School

At Eddy Farm Riding Camp the focus is learning how to ride while having fun and being safe. Campers groom, tack, and ride their horse daily. The staff is knowledgeable with lots of horse experience and always there to help.

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: TBD

Future Genius

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: TBD

Green Mountain Adventures

Now in its 25th season, Green Mountain Adventures offers a variety of outdoor adventure day camps uniquely designed to safely lead children and young adults into the vast playground of rocks, rivers, and mountains surrounding our Central Vermont community. Participants engage in multi-activity wilderness adventures including canoeing and kayaking, mountain biking, hiking, river-tubing, and rock climbing. Each camp provides imaginative and unforgettable journeys in some of the most beautiful backcountry wilderness areas in and around the Green Mountains.

Call to register: 802-388-7245                                    

  • Ages: 6-14
  • Dates: July 10- 14; July 17-21; July 31- August 4; August 7-11
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • Tuition: $450

Mary Johnson School Age Summer Camp

Located at Mary Hogan Elementary School, our school–age camp offers a wide range of activities. Swimming, art classes, Taekwondo and archery are available to children who have completed kindergarten (and are 6 years old) through grade six, throughout the summer. An emphasis on outdoor play, group games and making friends, exploring the community and individual choice are key pieces of the experience.

Registration is open; email Director Jennifer Smith ([email protected]) for forms.

  • Ages: 6-12
  • Dates: June 28 to August 11
  • Times: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Tuition: $210/week; additional child $168/week
  • Tuition assistance: Tuition subsidy assistance through Child Care Services. Contact Jane Reilly at 388-4304 for information and application.
  • Contact: 802-388-0522 or [email protected]

Middlebury Area Land Trust

Each summer, MALT brings its mission to life by connecting local youth with the protected lands of their back yards. In forests, meadows, rivers, wetlands, and everywhere in-between we imagine, play, create, build, and connect with nature, and with each other.

Registration opens February 17-24, 2023. Full brochure here.

  • Ages: 5-13
  • Dates: June 26-August 25, 2023
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition assistance: TBD

Middlebury Community Music Center 

The Middlebury Community Music Center believes in immersion as a powerful tool for budding musicians. Our camps promote the joys as well as the focus required to make excellent music — and have fun doing it! Each camp features a final performance, providing a focal point and a celebration for the week. Camps are available for all skill levels, ranging from Music Discoveries Camp for children ages 4-7 to Camp Adagio for children ages 9-18. We can’t wait to make music with you this summer!

Registration is open.

  • Ages: 4-18
  • Dates: June 19 through August 18
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: pay what you can

Middlebury Studio School

Middlebury Studio School fosters community engagement and creative growth in the visual arts through quality instruction in clay, fine arts and other crafts. This summer it’s offering five weeks of themed half-day camps and one week of Adventure in the Arts, a collaboration with Town Hall Theater and Middlebury Community Music Center.

  • Ages: 7-11 (7-12 for Adventure in the Arts)
  • Dates: June 26-July 28
  • Times: 9-11:30 a.m. (Adventure in the Arts is 9 a.m.-3 p.m.)
  • Tuition:$130-295
  • Tuition assistance: scholarships available

Ms. Ray’s Reading Room & Learning Center

Jen Mekrut Ray is a Middlebury-based educator and tutor. Her summer programs include creative writing, illustration and poetry in nature for big kids; and “How to be a Student” for pre-k, kindergarten and 1st grade kids.

Email [email protected].

  • Ages: pre-k through 15 years old
  • Dates: June 26-30; July 10-27; August 14-18
  • Times: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  • Tuition: $80-$200/week
  • Tuition Assistance: n/a

Quilter’s Corner Sewing Camp

If you have a 10-14 year old that has interest in sewing or has experience sewing, these are the perfect camps for them. Projects will be determined by the skills of the student. Great opportunity to learn new techniques and how to sew!  Tap into your child’s creativity and watch it soar!

  • Ages: 10-14
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: TBD

Town Hall Theater 

Rock-It Science camp for teens; puppet and theater camp for little ones; and two Young Company musicals.

  • Ages: 6 and up
  • Dates: June 19 through August 19, weekly sessions.
  • Times: Rock-In Science is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; the rest are half day or shorter.
  • Tuition: $115-$285
  • Tuition Assistance: Scholarships available. Contact [email protected]

Youth Media Lab Camps at Ilsley Library 

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: Free
  • Tuition Assistance: N/A

More camps to explore!

Bristol, Lincoln, New Haven

Apple Yard Arts & Adventure Camp

Exploring individual creativity and artistic expression is what we are all about. Through painting and drawing, nature sculptures, paper mache, wood masks, sewing even friendship bracelets and more we will encourage the creative juices to flow. In Lincoln we know how to have fun adventures! Woods walks, gardening, fairy houses, hikes, building forts and story telling will all be part of the weeks at Apple Yard. Because we all have energy to expend, especially in the summer, we will have free form play time and sports from tag to soccer and a massive outdoor game of hide and seek! On hot days we will get the sprinkler out.

  • Ages: 5-13
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition assistance: N/A

Bristol Recreation Department

Mountain biking, River Camp, Wheels Camp: Bristol Rec has something for everyone. And this year they are offering a Pay What You Can tuition model:

$25 – Minimum payment
$210 – Standard tuition cost per camper
$250 – MTB camper
Anything more than $210/250 will go towards supporting other campers.

(Registration opens Feb. 1, 2023)

Mountain Bike Camps:

  • Ages: 4-15
  • Dates: June 21-23 (Little Rippers, ages 4-6); July 10-14 (ages 7+, co-ed); July 24-28 (girls ages 7+); Aug. 14-18 (ages 7+, co-ed)
  • Times: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (9 a.m. to noon for Little Rippers)
  • Tuition: Pay what you can 
  • Tuition Assistance: TBD

Summit Soccer School

Summit Soccer School has provided soccer instruction and fun on the Mt. Abraham campus to Addison County children from some of the area’s most knowledgeable soccer coaches for over 28 years. Summit Soccer School is directed by Dustin Corrigan, Mt. Abraham Union High School’s Varsity Girls Soccer Coach. The coaching staff features area high school and club coaches as well as talented current and former college and high school players from the area.

  • Ages: entering grades K-9
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition assistance: sibling discount

 

Willowell Summer Camps

Willowell camps aim to foster a sense of pride and respect for nature in youth of all ages. Camps will bring children outdoors for programming that get children playing, getting dirty, and learning from Willowell’s 230 acres of meadows, wetlands and forest. Your children will surely come home each day tired, full of new songs, smelling of campfire, and ready to take on the world with a renewed respect for themselves, their peers, and the great outdoors!

Registration open now.

  • Ages: 4-15
  • Dates: June 19 through August 25, weekly sessions
  • Times: check individual listings
  • Tuition: $250/week
  • Tuition assistance: Scholarships available. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

Vergennes, Ferrisburgh

CAMP BHC

There are countless things to do at Basin Harbor for kids and all include fun. Our summer camps are structured to make the most of the beautiful surroundings. Waterfront activities, arts and crafts, STEM activities and recreational sports are all part of daily curriculum.

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Time: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: N/A

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

LCMM’s Lake Adventure Camps offer a variety of week-long activities led by highly experienced program staff, using the fleet of watercraft, replica vessels, and teaching facilities at our 4-acre lakeside campus. Our programs promote learning, exercise, confidence and teamwork through outdoor, interactive fun.

Registration open.

  • Ages: entering grades 2-12
  • Dates: June 19-August 25
  • Time: 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Tuition: Pay what you can

School of Pyschogeographic Arts

Explore how artists respond to place in a variety of camp sessions — from backyard graffiti and guerrilla art, to landscape architecture, to indoor and outdoor painting and mosaics. 

Registration is open for 2023.

  • Ages: entering grades 2-8
  • Dates: June 19-August 18, weekly sessions
  • Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: $375
  • Tuition Assistance: N/A

Very Merry Theatre

Young thespians spend a week at the Vergennes Opera House working on a theatrical production.

  • Ages: 6-13
  • Dates: TBD
  • Time: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD

More camps to explore!

Monkton, Starksboro, Hinesburg, Huntington

Common Ground Day Camps

Our popular one-week day camp invites young campers in the Addison and Chittenden County region to join us for the best things Vermont summers have to offer. Outdoor activities include archery, tennis, swimming, exploring the pond and creek, identifying wildlife, hiking, and gardening. Indoors, we’ll cook together, play music, and explore our artsy side.

  • Ages: 6-13
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition assistance: Scholarships available. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Camp Outright

Common Ground Center is proud to partner with Outright Vermont to host two six-day, five-night residential summer camp sessions for queer, trans, questioning, and allied youth. We welcome folks from throughout the U.S. and beyond, with campers that range from age 13-17 and counselors-in-training ages 18-19. You don’t need to identify as LGTBQ+ to come to camp; straight allies are also welcome.

  • Ages: 13-17
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: overnight
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition assistance: Scholarships available. Contact [email protected] for more information.

 

Green Mountain Audubon Center

Our day camps invite children to explore the world around them, get in touch with all of their senses, and connect to the plants and animals that call the Green Mountains home. There are moments of magic every day at camp, whether around the bonfire, on a hike to Lookout Rock, or scooping for critters at the pond.

  • Ages:  3-12
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: scholarships available

Brandon, Leicester, Orwell

Art on the Farm

Outdoor art and play camps for kids offered by Moya Cavanagh and Zelie Wright-Neil on a 100-acre farm in Leicester, VT. Inspired by Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, this camp is intended to connect children with the natural world through exploration, art, imagination, and play. Children will spend the week exploring the land’s many woods and gardens and interpret what they see through creative projects. For more information and to register contact [email protected].

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: NA

Green Mountain Day Camp (Girl Scouts) 

Green Mountain Day Camp is set at Branbury State Park in Brandon. Have fun exploring beautiful Lake Dunmore and the treasures that hide beneath the surface. Enjoy campfires, cooking outdoors, tenting and more, with new friends this week at camp.

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: NA

Mount Independence State Historic Site

Children will enjoy learning about Revolutionary times, Mount Independence, archaeology, and more, with walks and new hands-on activities. Attendees will make special items to bring home. Limited space. Pre-registration required.

  • Ages: TBD
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: Sibling discounts and scholarships

Overnight Camps

  • Aloha Camp for Girls Girls • ages 12-17 • Fairlee • 802-333-3400
  • Brown Ledge Camp Girls • ages 10-18 • Colchester • 802-862-2442
  • Camp Abnaki Boys • ages 6-16 • North Hero • 802-652-8180
  • Camp Aloha Hive Girls • ages 7-12 • Fairlee • 802-333 -3400
  • Camp Betsey Cox Girls • ages 6-15 •  Pittsford • 866-213-4717
  • Camp Billings Coed • ages 8-15 • Fairlee • 802-333-4317
  • Camp Birch Hill Coed • ages 6-16 • New Durham, N.H. • 603-859-4525
  • Camp Common Ground Family camp • Starksboro • 802-453-2592
  • Camp Downer Coed • ages 8-16 •  Westport, N.Y. • Sharon • 802-276-4420
  • Camp Dudley Boys • ages 10-15 •  Westport, N.Y. • 518-962-4720
  • Camp Hawkeye Coed • ages 8-16 • Moultonborough, N.H. • 718-315-1297
  • Camp Hochelega Girls • ages 6-17  • South Hero • 802-862-7520
  • Camp Kiniya Girls • ages 9-15 • Colchester • 802-893-7850
  • Camp Outright • ages 13-22 • Starksboro • 802-453-2592
  • Camp Sangamon Boys • ages 9-16 •  Pittsford • 802-665-7505
  • Circus Smirkus Co-ed • ages 5-18 • Greensboro • 802-533-7443
  • Forest Lake Camp: Coed • ages 8-15 • Southern Adirondack Mountains of New York • 518-623-4771
  • Green Mountain Camp (Girl Scouts) Girls • day camps and overnight camps • 888.474.9686
  • Hosmer Point Coed • ages 8-14 • day and overnight camps • 802-586-7767 (summer phone) 802-586-2090 (winter phone)
  • Keewaydin Dunmore Boys • ages 8-16 • Salisbury • 802-352-4770
  • Lanakila Boys • ages 8-14 • Fairlee • 802-333 -3400
  • Pok-O-MacCready Camps Girls/boys/coed • ages 6-16 • Willsboro, N.Y. • 518-963-7656
  • Songadeewin Girls • ages 8-16  • Salisbury • 802-352-9860