About
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 Day, Thursday Thrill Day, Beach Day, and theme days, as well as international day and a dance. The program also includes access to a large pool, a sprawling field, an animal barn, and activities like onewheel and extreme sports.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
Since 1946, Kennolyn has been a family owned camp where kids build lifelong friendships, unplug from technology, and explore the world around them. Kennolyn Camps offers programs for grades 1–12 at the Santa Cruz Mountains Overnight Camp, where campers choose their own activities while sharing meals, sleep, and time with their cabin family. The camp focuses on fostering emotional, social and physical growth in each camper, while embracing fun, play and adventure, and it describes itself as a place for children to learn and grow.
Kennolyn Camps states that its community acknowledges and embraces diverse identities, including age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, nationality, religion, physical ability, and socioeconomic status. The camp describes its culture as practicing intentional kindness and appreciating the value that each camper and staff member brings. Kennolyn Camps states that it believes non parental adults are critical to a child’s development and that this belief guides its work with campers, along with an awareness of the trust it takes for parents to send their children away to camp. The program notes that kids deserve a time and place where fun is the main objective, with structure and guidelines and regulated behavior.
The staff at Kennolyn Camps are all adults who are carefully recruited, extensively trained, and closely supervised by experienced supervisors. The leadership team includes Lindsey Caldwell Johnson (Communications and Parent Relations Director), Andrew Townsend (General Manager), Samantha Townsend (Santa Cruz Mountains Overnight Camp Director), Mike Higginbotham (Huntington Lake Camp Director), Dan Johnson (Day Camp Director), Pam Caldwell Nootbaar (President), and Mackenzie Fullmer (Accounting). Kennolyn Camps is family owned and operated and describes itself as having run for 80 summers.
Campers describe favorite experiences such as Outpost, sleeping under the stars, making foil stew and s’mores, ropes courses, campfires, skits, the dance, Senior Beach Day, Boardwalk Day, Thursday Thrill Day, Trapeze, international day, and spending time with friends. Some campers say Kennolyn feels like a second home, mention returning for multiple years, and highlight campfires, funny skits, Beach Day, theme days, and the freedom they experience at camp.
Last updated March 10, 2026.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
Since 1946, Kennolyn has been a family owned camp where kids build lifelong friendships, unplug from technology, and explore the world around them. Kennolyn Camps offers programs for grades 1–12 at the Santa Cruz Mountains Overnight Camp, where campers choose their own activities while sharing meals, sleep, and time with their cabin family. The camp focuses on fostering emotional, social and physical growth in each camper, while embracing fun, play and adventure, and it describes itself as a place for children to learn and grow.
Kennolyn Camps states that its community acknowledges and embraces diverse identities, including age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, nationality, religion, physical ability, and socioeconomic status. The camp describes its culture as practicing intentional kindness and appreciating the value that each camper and staff member brings. Kennolyn Camps states that it believes non parental adults are critical to a child’s development and that this belief guides its work with campers, along with an awareness of the trust it takes for parents to send their children away to camp. The program notes that kids deserve a time and place where fun is the main objective, with structure and guidelines and regulated behavior.
The staff at Kennolyn Camps are all adults who are carefully recruited, extensively trained, and closely supervised by experienced supervisors. The leadership team includes Lindsey Caldwell Johnson (Communications and Parent Relations Director), Andrew Townsend (General Manager), Samantha Townsend (Santa Cruz Mountains Overnight Camp Director), Mike Higginbotham (Huntington Lake Camp Director), Dan Johnson (Day Camp Director), Pam Caldwell Nootbaar (President), and Mackenzie Fullmer (Accounting). Kennolyn Camps is family owned and operated and describes itself as having run for 80 summers.
Campers describe favorite experiences such as Outpost, sleeping under the stars, making foil stew and s’mores, ropes courses, campfires, skits, the dance, Senior Beach Day, Boardwalk Day, Thursday Thrill Day, Trapeze, international day, and spending time with friends. Some campers say Kennolyn feels like a second home, mention returning for multiple years, and highlight campfires, funny skits, Beach Day, theme days, and the freedom they experience at camp.
Last updated March 10, 2026.
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