UCSB Summer Day Camp
UCSB Recreation Center, 516 Ocean Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3025
About
UCSB Summer Day Camp offers activities such as pool time, swimming, a Rock Wall, a Ropes Adventure Course, gymnastics, tennis, soccer, softball, ultimate frisbee, arts & crafts, group games, movies, nature hikes, and field trips. The camp also includes themed special events such as Fun Fridays, a Carnival with carnival games and bounce houses, a talent show, and an epic music festival during the Summer Send Off week.
• Ages: 5–14 years old
• Schedule: 9 weekly sessions from June 15–August 14, 2026, Monday–Friday, with camp days running 8:15am–5:15pm and swim lessons offered in separate Monday–Thursday two-week sessions beginning June 23
• Price: Early registration $315 per week ($215 for the 4-day Juneteenth and July 4th weeks) and regular registration $345 per week ($276 for the 4-day Juneteenth and July 4th weeks); Junior Counselor Program $90 for up to 2 sessions, $180 for up to 4, $270 for up to 6, and $360 for up to 9 sessions
All UCSB Summer Day Camp staff and counselors are CPR and First Aid certified. The UCSB Department of Recreation states that it serves the Gaucho community by cultivating well-being through its programs, services, and facilities. The camp offers a Junior Counselor Program as a volunteer position that may count toward community service or volunteer requirements, includes a T-shirt, and requires Junior Counselors to complete an online Bullying Prevention training before their first day; community service paperwork for Junior Counselors must be submitted to the Youth Programs Coordinator by August 14, 2026. Weekly themes include Camp Olympics, Superheroes, Party in the USA, The Great Outdoors, Carnival, Magical World of Camp, Young Einsteins, Camp’s Got Talent, and Summer Send Off, and the Gauchos group for ages 11–14 participates in nature-based science experiments at the Sci Trek laboratory on campus in a real-life college lab with campus partners Sci Trek.
Parents are asked to complete an online Consent To Treat form on or before a child’s first day in the program, and the camp does not offer pro-rated prices for partial weeks. Swim lessons must be purchased separately, counselors are available to walk children to 4:30pm lessons only, and parents must pick up 4:30pm lesson participants at the Recreation Center. Early registration is open from February 18 to April 18 at noon, with registration required by April 17 at noon to receive the early registration rate, and families are asked to sign up for each camp session by 7am on the Thursday before that session.
Parent feedback notes appreciation for the full-day schedule, the energy of the counselors, the variety of activities, access to UCSB campus and resources, and the camp’s weekly themes and carnival. Another parent notes that their children enjoy the chance to swim and jump off the high dive, the themed weeks, the carnival, the counselors, and the camp hours.
Last updated June 25, 2026.
• Ages: 5–14 years old
• Schedule: 9 weekly sessions from June 15–August 14, 2026, Monday–Friday, with camp days running 8:15am–5:15pm and swim lessons offered in separate Monday–Thursday two-week sessions beginning June 23
• Price: Early registration $315 per week ($215 for the 4-day Juneteenth and July 4th weeks) and regular registration $345 per week ($276 for the 4-day Juneteenth and July 4th weeks); Junior Counselor Program $90 for up to 2 sessions, $180 for up to 4, $270 for up to 6, and $360 for up to 9 sessions
All UCSB Summer Day Camp staff and counselors are CPR and First Aid certified. The UCSB Department of Recreation states that it serves the Gaucho community by cultivating well-being through its programs, services, and facilities. The camp offers a Junior Counselor Program as a volunteer position that may count toward community service or volunteer requirements, includes a T-shirt, and requires Junior Counselors to complete an online Bullying Prevention training before their first day; community service paperwork for Junior Counselors must be submitted to the Youth Programs Coordinator by August 14, 2026. Weekly themes include Camp Olympics, Superheroes, Party in the USA, The Great Outdoors, Carnival, Magical World of Camp, Young Einsteins, Camp’s Got Talent, and Summer Send Off, and the Gauchos group for ages 11–14 participates in nature-based science experiments at the Sci Trek laboratory on campus in a real-life college lab with campus partners Sci Trek.
Parents are asked to complete an online Consent To Treat form on or before a child’s first day in the program, and the camp does not offer pro-rated prices for partial weeks. Swim lessons must be purchased separately, counselors are available to walk children to 4:30pm lessons only, and parents must pick up 4:30pm lesson participants at the Recreation Center. Early registration is open from February 18 to April 18 at noon, with registration required by April 17 at noon to receive the early registration rate, and families are asked to sign up for each camp session by 7am on the Thursday before that session.
Parent feedback notes appreciation for the full-day schedule, the energy of the counselors, the variety of activities, access to UCSB campus and resources, and the camp’s weekly themes and carnival. Another parent notes that their children enjoy the chance to swim and jump off the high dive, the themed weeks, the carnival, the counselors, and the camp hours.
Last updated June 25, 2026.
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