Private/Independent
Private camps are the flagships of the great American summer camp tradition. Many have been around a long, long time and these camps are generally family owned and cater to children from high-income families - in short this is where the money is!! Because mum & dad are paying a lot to send their little darlings to camp, there's a lot for said darlings to enjoy - from the conventional activities like watersports, tennis, drama and baseball to the more unusual like skateboarding, climbing and even circus!
Outside of sports and arts, campers enjoy some very traditional camp activities - such as team building games, sleep outs, making s'mores around the campfire, and sing-a-longs, and the good news is - you get to do all of it too!
One such camp we work with is 'Echo', a traditional, coed (that's boys and girls to you and me), residential camp located about 90 minutes from New York City. It caters each summer for 350 campers, ages 7-15, and has 200 staff members.
The camp is situated in a beautiful natural environment, including a private lake and 200+ acres of fields and wooded trails. It's surroundings provide the perfect setting for trotting horses, rowing boats, hitting balls, riding bikes, discovering trails, painting canvases, roasting marshmallows (are you seeing a pattern emerging?), and making new best friends. All this just a convenient and comfortable distance from the greater New York City and Philadelphia areas.
