Wanderlust World Wanderlust World A wide variety of travel camps are offered for children, teens, adults and seniors in New York. Given the significant impact of arts and culture in the state, many travel camps also incorporate these fields in their programs. These travel camps typically involve going to esteemed natural destinations and cultural and historical man-made attractions distinct to New York.
Camp Hilltop, a traditional overnight camp in New York’s Catskill Region, offers a series of travel camp programs ranging from two to eight weeks. Its structured but comfortable, non-competitive and nurturing set-up features more than 50 activities given at flexible schedules. Campers enjoy intensive instructions in recreation activities such as horseback riding, water skiing, tennis, go-karts, high and low ropes course, tree climbing, canoeing, sailing, windsurfing, archery, gymastics and basketball. Art activities are also incorporated in the programs like ceramics, jewelry-making, leather crafts, painting, photography, tie-dying, woodworking and stain glass art.
92Y Travel Camps provides day camps, travel camps, short-term sleepaway camps and other specialty camps for children, teens, adults and those with developmental disabilities. Keeping the cost of camps affordable for New York City families, its programs are sustained through the continuing support of patrons and donors. It also offers need-based scholarships for kids attending the camps. Most programs are geared towards children. Campers typically meet up in New York City and ride buses to the Rockland County campgrounds located in Pearl River, New York.
The Queens County Farm Museum features summer camp programs for New York kids where they can travel and explore the suburbs of New York to learn arts and crafts, while also immersing themselves in work on a real farm with actual farm animals. This type of travel camp exposes them to real farm chores and even gardening work. Apart from the hands-on experience in farm life in Floral Park, New York, campers also take courses in photography, cooking, agriculture and natural sciences.
Since it started as a one-week summer session for children with disabilities in the 1970s, the Mid-Hudson Valley Camp expanded into a nine-week camp program for children and adults with developmental, mental and physical disabilities and illnesses. Its aim is to mainly provide people in need with fun travel camp experiences where they can enjoy a variety of recreation activities in the camp’s facility located along the picturesque Hudson River in Esopus, New York, about 100 miles north of New York City. Campers benefit from a junior Olympic-sized pool, gymnasium for sports and games, playground with jungle gym, recreation hall for playing billiards and ping-pong, large screens for indoor and outdoor movie watching, golf carts for convenient transport of campers and a fish-friendly pond equipped with paddleboats.