About
R.M. Pyles Boys Camp offers a multi-year wilderness camp experience for boys that is supplemented by year-round mentoring. The program includes winter follow-up, a second-year summer camp, leadership development, and college scholarship programs. Each year, the camp selects over 450 boys from Southern California counties to attend one of five first-year sessions, and families of the boys who attend do not pay any costs, as the camp operates on a non-discriminatory basis.
• Ages: 12–14 years old
• Schedule: Skills Weekend May 22–25, 2026; Work Party June 5–7, 2026; Staff Training June 14–19, 2026; three camp sessions from June 22–July 3, July 6–17, and July 20–31, 2026
R.M. Pyles Boys Camp has operated since 1949. Its mission is to promote long-term positive behavioral change for low-income, disadvantaged boys by providing a multi-year wilderness camp experience with year-round mentoring that builds life skills and instills the values of hard work, education, and positive choices. The founder, Robert McDonald Pyles, described the purpose of the camp as finding poor and needy, underprivileged children and rebuilding them into healthier and happier generations of Americans, firmly endowed with the ideals and principles of a freedom-loving country. The camp was recognized in 1992 by President George Herbert Walker Bush as one of his Thousand Points of Light. One camper from 2013 stated that R.M. Pyles Camp made a positive influence in his life, that it became as important as his family, friends, and school, and that the things he learned at Pyles Camp would help him in life and in obtaining a job. The camp operates in partnership with Sequoia National Forest Giant Sequoia National Monument, serves local communities, and is sustained through fundraising events, private industry and foundation donations, and generous individuals.
Last updated March 12, 2026.
• Ages: 12–14 years old
• Schedule: Skills Weekend May 22–25, 2026; Work Party June 5–7, 2026; Staff Training June 14–19, 2026; three camp sessions from June 22–July 3, July 6–17, and July 20–31, 2026
R.M. Pyles Boys Camp has operated since 1949. Its mission is to promote long-term positive behavioral change for low-income, disadvantaged boys by providing a multi-year wilderness camp experience with year-round mentoring that builds life skills and instills the values of hard work, education, and positive choices. The founder, Robert McDonald Pyles, described the purpose of the camp as finding poor and needy, underprivileged children and rebuilding them into healthier and happier generations of Americans, firmly endowed with the ideals and principles of a freedom-loving country. The camp was recognized in 1992 by President George Herbert Walker Bush as one of his Thousand Points of Light. One camper from 2013 stated that R.M. Pyles Camp made a positive influence in his life, that it became as important as his family, friends, and school, and that the things he learned at Pyles Camp would help him in life and in obtaining a job. The camp operates in partnership with Sequoia National Forest Giant Sequoia National Monument, serves local communities, and is sustained through fundraising events, private industry and foundation donations, and generous individuals.
Last updated March 12, 2026.
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