Overnight Summer Camps in California

Easterseals Camp Harmon offers activities such as an animal farm, garden, arts, ceramics, music, performing arts, outdoor nature trails, outdoor nature education, sports, games, campfire sing-a-longs, talent shows, swimming, arts and crafts,...

Gold Arrow Camp offers activities that include wake boarding, horseback riding, and rock climbing. Campers live in rustic conditions and take part in these activities as part of a traditional summer camp experience. • Ages: 6–14 years old Gold Arrow...

Griffith Park Boys' Camp offers activities such as rock climbing, a high ropes challenge course, archery, and hiking. Campers use a 30 ft. rock climbing wall, an industrial climbing wall, a high ropes course, an archery range, and nearby hiking...

Kennolyn Camps offers activities such as Outpost overnights where campers sleep under the stars and make foil stew and s’mores, ropes courses, Trapeze, and campfires with skits. Campers take part in special days including Senior Beach Day, Boardwalk...

Kennolyn Camps – Huntington Lake Overnight Camp offers a wide range of lake and outdoor activities, including sailing, waterskiing, standup paddleboarding, wakeboarding, kayaking, fishing, tubing, and rock jumping. Campers also take part in hiking,...

Mountain Meadow Ranch Summer Camp is a small-enrollment summer camp with around 120 campers. The camp emphasizes an unplugged, mindful experience guided by four themes: Connect, Unplug, Explore, and Grow. Campers and staff bond like family, and...

Overnight Camp at YMCA Camp Campbell includes traditional camp activities such as campfires, hikes, skits, and sleeping under the stars. Campers take part in outdoor exploration, hiking, rafting, and kayaking as part of the program. The camp...

Overnight Summer Camps at YMCA Camp Jones Gulch take place in a facility with four separate camp villages, each with its own campfire circle. The overnight sleep away camps are described as places where kids can develop skills, self-confidence, new...

Pacific Summer High School Institute is a two-week residential pre-college summer program where students take courses and join evening and recreational activities. Outside of class time, the program offers movies under the stars, arts and crafts,...

Pine Springs Ranch Summer Camp is a Christian summer camp program at Pine Springs Ranch (PSR), a Christian camp and retreat center owned and operated by the Southeastern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The summer theme is “Made for...

Redwood Glen Summer Camps offers camp-inspired activities and Bible lessons that include crafts, swimming, singing, hiking, games, and campfires. Campers take part in sleeping in a tent, cooking over an open fire, exploring endless trails, stomping...

Sleepaway Camps at Sequoia Lake offers campers a week at the lake with activities such as hiking, swimming, canoeing, rock climbing, fishing, paddle boarding, and recreational water activities. Campers also take part in crafts, arts and crafts,...

The Painted Turtle offers horseback rides, campfires, art, swimming, athletics, canoeing, stargazing, acting on stage, and adventuring, where children also sing, dance, paint, and play. During these activities, children become artists, swimmers,...

Wilshire Boulevard Temple Camps offers a wide range of activities, including arts and crafts, archery, swimming at the pool, Israeli dancing, surfing, bodyboarding, ocean adventure, sports conditioning, aviation, drones, and a variety of sports....

YMCA Camp Arbolado offers activities such as Arts & Crafts, archery, games, hiking, canoeing at the lake, swimming, mountain biking, a ropes course, evening campfires, special events and meals, and ping-pong. Campers also have access to a projector...

Mendocino Outdoor Science School is a program of the Mendocino Woodlands Camp Association that focuses on group camping and environmental education. Participants take part in activities such as hiking and mountain biking as part of the outdoor...

Outward Bound California offers outdoor programs where students backpack, rock climb, and tackle a challenge course. Programs include high and low ropes and other challenge course experiences, single-day rock climbing programs in Joshua Tree,...

Jameson Ranch Camp has been screen-free and technology-free since 1934 — not as a policy, but as a philosophy. Set on a historic working ranch in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Glennville, California, JRC is a two-week residential summer program...

Discovery ChalleNGe Academy (Discovery Youth ChalleNGe Program) is a free 22-week residential, quasi-military style alternative education program supported by the National Guard with no military obligation. Cadets take part in workshops and skills...

Camp Gold Hollow Summer Camp Programs include activities such as swimming, archery, canoeing, and campfires. The programs are part of Camp Fire Golden Empire’s camp offerings. • Ages: 5–17 years old Camp Gold Hollow Summer Camp Programs are part of...