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Summer Camp Guide 2024

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, Rochester, 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 TBD
  • 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: weekly sessions TBD
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: TBD
  • 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.

Registration opens on the Bridge School website on May 16.

  • Ages: entering grades 1-7
  • Dates: weekly sessions, June 24-August 16
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: Bridge Students: $285/week; non-Bridge $325/week

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: June 17 through August 23, weekly sessions
  • Times: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  • Tuition: $220-$253/week
  • 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 7, 6 p.m., through February 11, noon.

  • Ages: 6-13
  • Dates: June 17 through August 23, weekly sessions
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: $300-$400/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

Green Mountain Adventures

Now in its 26th 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: 6-15
  • Dates: July 8-12; July 22-26; July 29-Aug. 2
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
  • Tuition: $450/week

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 opens in the spring; email Director Jennifer Smith ([email protected]) for forms.

  • Ages: 6-12
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • Tuition: TBD
  • 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 open: Full brochure here.

  • Ages: 5-13
  • Dates: June 24 through August 23, weekly sessions
  • Times: 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
  • Tuition: $260-$305
  • Tuition assistance: TBD

Middlebury Community Music Center 

We believe 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.

Registration open now.

  • Ages: 4-18
  • Dates: weekly sessions, June 17-Aug. 23
  • 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 seven weeks of themed camps, including Nature’s Palette, Art in Nature at Branbury*  (10 am- 4 pm), Upcycled Unleashed, Enchanted Forest, Art for the Stage* with Town Hall Theater: 1-4 pm, and Community Harmony* with MCMC: 9 am-3 pm.

  • Ages: 7-11
  • Dates: Weekly camps, June through August
  • Times: Camps at the Marble Works location run from 9-11:30am. Camps at other locations (or split between Marble Works & an alternate location) have all day or afternoon hours.
  • Tuition: varies by camp
  • Tuition assistance: scholarships available

Monarch Soccer Camp

Join Coach Chris George, the Monarch SC coaching staff, and Middlebury Tiger players for the most fun week of soccer in Addison County. The Monarch Way incorporates age-appropriate coaching methodologies with a focus on teamwork and leadership, while teaching energetic and creative soccer to players of all ages. Our Monarch Summer Camp Series focuses on foundational technical skills and small sided games in a fun and safe environment.

  • Ages: 7-11
  • Dates: July 15-19
  • Times: 9 a.m. to noon (grades 1&2); 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (grades 3-6)
  • Tuition: $175-$250
  • Tuition assistance: TBD

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: TBD
  • Times: TBD
  • Tuition: TBD
  • Tuition Assistance: n/a

The Penn Program

The Penn Program offers an alternative education model for middle and high school students in Rochester. Educator Andrew Fersch is offering two summer programs: an Outdoor Adventure & Joyful Learning program for ages 4-5; and a Teen Creative Project for ages 14-18.

  • Ages: 4-5; 14-18
  • Dates: July 29 through August 19
  • Times: 8-11:30 a.m. for the little kids; 2-5:30 p.m. for the big kids
  • Tuition: sliding scale $100-$300

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 17 to August 17, weekly sessions 
  • Times: Rock-In Science is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; the rest are half day or shorter.
  • Tuition: $115-$350
  • Tuition Assistance: Scholarships available. Contact [email protected]

More camps to explore!

Bristol, Lincoln, New Haven

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, 2024)

Mountain Bike Camps:

  • Ages: 4-15
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. (9 a.m. to noon for Little Rippers)
  • Tuition: Pay what you can 
  • Tuition Assistance: n/a

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 opens in mid-January.

  • Ages: 4-15
  • Dates: TBD
  • Times: check individual listings
  • Tuition: TBD
  • 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 now.

  • Ages: 13-17
  • Dates: weekly sessions, June 17-August 17
  • 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 opens in the spring.

  • Ages: entering grades 2-8
  • Dates: TBD
  • Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  • Tuition: TBD
  • 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