Summer-Long Camps: Where Kids Stay All Season

Camps Offering 7–8 Week Sessions (Full Summer)

Many traditional overnight camps run **full-summer sessions (7–8 weeks)**. Examples:

Co-ed

• Camp Pocono Trails (PA): 7-week session; 100+ activities (arts, sports, aquatics, adventure, STEM). Weight-loss/wellness focus optional.
• Frost Valley YMCA (NY): 1-week to 8-week options; Catskills; values-based.
• Camp Walden (MI): 7-week; all-girls (sister camp: Camp Walden for Boys).

Single-Gender

• Camp Winnebago (ME): Boys; 7-week; traditional (waterfront, trips, arts, sports).
• Camp Timanous (ME): Boys; 7-week; small, non-competitive, character-focused.
• Camp Wyonegonic (ME): Girls; 7-week; oldest girls' camp in US (1902).
• Camp Wawenock (ME): Girls; 7-week; leadership, wilderness trips.

Jewish / Faith-Based

• Camp Ramah in the Berkshires (NY): Conservative Jewish; 4 or 8 weeks; Hebrew, Israel ed, observant.
• Camp Modin (ME): Pluralistic Jewish; 7-week.

Specialty / Long-Term

• Interlochen Arts Camp (MI): 3–6 weeks; intensive arts (music, theatre, dance, visual, writing).
• Phillips Exeter Summer School (NH): 5 weeks; academic enrichment.
• NOLS / Outward Bound: 30–80 day wilderness expeditions (ages 14+).

How to Choose

• **ACA Accreditation** (American Camp Association) — health, safety, staff standards.
• Session length flexibility (some allow 3+4 or 4+4).
• Visiting day / family weekend policies.
• Cost: $7,000–$15,000+ for 7 weeks; financial aid often available.