About
Kennolyn Camps offers activities such as Outpost overnights where campers sleep under the stars and make foil stew and s’mores, ropes course challenges, and campfires with skits. Campers take part in special days and events including Thursday Thrill Day, Senior Beach Day, Boardwalk Day, international day, Beach Day, Theme days, and a camp dance, as well as activities like Trapeze and time with friends. Programs include options where campers can choose their own activities while sharing meals, sleep, and time with their cabin group, along with campfires and watching skits that cabins put on.
• 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 focuses on fostering emotional, social and physical growth in each camper while embracing fun, play, and adventure, and offers programs for grades 1–12 at the Santa Cruz Mountains Overnight Camp, Overnight Camp at Huntington Lake for grades 6–11, Santa Cruz Mountains Day Camp for grades K–11, and a Work at Camp program in California for ages 18 and over. The camp states that it is a place for children to learn and grow, that it acknowledges and embraces diverse identities, and that it works to ensure that everyone regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, nationality, religion, physical ability, or socioeconomic status has the opportunity to reach their fullest potential, guided by intentional kindness and the belief that non parental adults are critical to a child’s development.
Kennolyn Camps describes that kids deserve a time and place where fun is the main objective, with structure and guidelines and regulated behavior, and that the trust parents place in sending their children to camp guides what the camp does. 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). The staff are all adults who are carefully recruited, extensively trained, and closely supervised by experienced supervisors.
Campers describe Outpost, where they sleep under the stars, make foil stew and s’mores, and build a fire in the woods, as a favorite part of Kennolyn Camps, along with going on the ropes course and challenging themselves with new circuits. Campers also highlight Thursday Thrill Day, Trapeze, international day, Senior Beach Day, Boardwalk Day, Beach Day, Campfires, Theme days, and the dance as favorite experiences, and some describe Kennolyn as their “second home,” their “all time favorite camp,” and “the best place on earth,” where they feel there is a lot of freedom, make close friends over many years, and look forward to coming back, learning something new, and meeting new people.
Last updated June 8, 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 focuses on fostering emotional, social and physical growth in each camper while embracing fun, play, and adventure, and offers programs for grades 1–12 at the Santa Cruz Mountains Overnight Camp, Overnight Camp at Huntington Lake for grades 6–11, Santa Cruz Mountains Day Camp for grades K–11, and a Work at Camp program in California for ages 18 and over. The camp states that it is a place for children to learn and grow, that it acknowledges and embraces diverse identities, and that it works to ensure that everyone regardless of age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, nationality, religion, physical ability, or socioeconomic status has the opportunity to reach their fullest potential, guided by intentional kindness and the belief that non parental adults are critical to a child’s development.
Kennolyn Camps describes that kids deserve a time and place where fun is the main objective, with structure and guidelines and regulated behavior, and that the trust parents place in sending their children to camp guides what the camp does. 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). The staff are all adults who are carefully recruited, extensively trained, and closely supervised by experienced supervisors.
Campers describe Outpost, where they sleep under the stars, make foil stew and s’mores, and build a fire in the woods, as a favorite part of Kennolyn Camps, along with going on the ropes course and challenging themselves with new circuits. Campers also highlight Thursday Thrill Day, Trapeze, international day, Senior Beach Day, Boardwalk Day, Beach Day, Campfires, Theme days, and the dance as favorite experiences, and some describe Kennolyn as their “second home,” their “all time favorite camp,” and “the best place on earth,” where they feel there is a lot of freedom, make close friends over many years, and look forward to coming back, learning something new, and meeting new people.
Last updated June 8, 2026.
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