Sacramento Adventure Playground Camps
Maple Neighborhood Center, 3301 37th Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95824
About
Sacramento Adventure Playground Camps offers themed Spring Camp, Summer Camp programs, and Holiday Play Camps that include activities such as fort building, art, group physical play, and free play. Camp sessions include options like Adventure Spring Camp Bot’s of Fun, Play Camp, Fort Building I, Fort Building II, Critter Camp, Minecraft Camp, Minions: The Rise of Play, Fort Camp III, Build It Camp, Investigators Academy, and Wacky Science vs Art of Mess. Many camps also include special features such as a campfire and marshmallow roast, s’mores with donated supplies, and Pizza Fridays for kids present at 4 PM.
• Ages: 6–15 years old
• Schedule: Five-day camps running Monday–Friday with most summer sessions from 9 AM–12 PM, a spring session from 11 AM–2 PM, Holiday Play Camps from 9:00 AM–2:15 PM, and a typical daily camp schedule that includes blocks of enrichment, group physical play, art, and free play; early drop-off is available starting at 7:45 AM, and various after-care and free public play options extend care into the afternoon.
• Price: Five Day Standard Camps are $195, Five Day Fort Camps are $200, Play Camp is $105, Holiday Play Camps are $10, early drop-off ranges from $5–$10 per day per camper, Monday after-care for summer camps is $20, Spring Camp Monday after-care is $15, and Tuesday–Friday bridge care from 12 PM–2:15 PM is $10 per camper per day, with some after-school and public play hours offered at no cost.
Sacramento Adventure Playground Camps takes place in a European style adventure playground with a junkyard atmosphere that functions as a makers’ laboratory or tinkerers’ workshop where youth use real tools to build and create things that reflect their own ideas and visions. The site includes a dedicated 5 & Under Area that is open during public play hours, a Mud Play Area added in March, and six themed forts built by Summer Campers for the area. The program’s out-of-school time program features non-adult directed play and a free after-school youth development program for ages 6 to 15, along with Free Community Days on the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of the month from October through May, including for children under 5.
Sacramento Adventure Playground is powered by Fairytale Town, whose board of directors adopted the vision “Inspire, educate and strengthen communities through play” in 2011 and later committed in 2015 to implementing an adventure playground at Maple Neighborhood Center. The Sacramento Adventure Playground states that “the keys to youth learning are keeping it simple and making it fun” and notes that research clearly shows play enhances social and academic abilities. The Site Supervisor is Steve Caudle, Play Manager, and the media contact is Lisa Keyson, Director of Advancement at Fairytale Town. The Sacramento Play Coalition, an outgrowth of the Sacramento Play Summit produced with the Sacramento Public Library, has focused on Pop-Up Adventure Play Days at Maple Neighborhood Center, and La Familia Counseling Center on the same campus may offer a free mid-day Monday–Thursday Summer Lunch Program/Camp and traditionally gives lunches to aftercare kids. Donations for the Playground can be made through Fairytale Town’s website.
Last updated June 9, 2026.
• Ages: 6–15 years old
• Schedule: Five-day camps running Monday–Friday with most summer sessions from 9 AM–12 PM, a spring session from 11 AM–2 PM, Holiday Play Camps from 9:00 AM–2:15 PM, and a typical daily camp schedule that includes blocks of enrichment, group physical play, art, and free play; early drop-off is available starting at 7:45 AM, and various after-care and free public play options extend care into the afternoon.
• Price: Five Day Standard Camps are $195, Five Day Fort Camps are $200, Play Camp is $105, Holiday Play Camps are $10, early drop-off ranges from $5–$10 per day per camper, Monday after-care for summer camps is $20, Spring Camp Monday after-care is $15, and Tuesday–Friday bridge care from 12 PM–2:15 PM is $10 per camper per day, with some after-school and public play hours offered at no cost.
Sacramento Adventure Playground Camps takes place in a European style adventure playground with a junkyard atmosphere that functions as a makers’ laboratory or tinkerers’ workshop where youth use real tools to build and create things that reflect their own ideas and visions. The site includes a dedicated 5 & Under Area that is open during public play hours, a Mud Play Area added in March, and six themed forts built by Summer Campers for the area. The program’s out-of-school time program features non-adult directed play and a free after-school youth development program for ages 6 to 15, along with Free Community Days on the 2nd or 3rd Saturday of the month from October through May, including for children under 5.
Sacramento Adventure Playground is powered by Fairytale Town, whose board of directors adopted the vision “Inspire, educate and strengthen communities through play” in 2011 and later committed in 2015 to implementing an adventure playground at Maple Neighborhood Center. The Sacramento Adventure Playground states that “the keys to youth learning are keeping it simple and making it fun” and notes that research clearly shows play enhances social and academic abilities. The Site Supervisor is Steve Caudle, Play Manager, and the media contact is Lisa Keyson, Director of Advancement at Fairytale Town. The Sacramento Play Coalition, an outgrowth of the Sacramento Play Summit produced with the Sacramento Public Library, has focused on Pop-Up Adventure Play Days at Maple Neighborhood Center, and La Familia Counseling Center on the same campus may offer a free mid-day Monday–Thursday Summer Lunch Program/Camp and traditionally gives lunches to aftercare kids. Donations for the Playground can be made through Fairytale Town’s website.
Last updated June 9, 2026.
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