Steve & Kate’s Camp
Boulder Country Day School, 4820 Nautilus Ct N, Boulder, CO 80301
About
Steve & Kate’s Camp offers a wide range of activities, including coding, robotics, sewing by hand and machine, baking, and a Tinker Lab with arts and crafts. Campers can spend time making and building with custom maker packs, 3D pens, LEGO engineering workshops, marble mazes, and fort-building, as well as filming and creating stop-motion animation, exploring 3D worlds with an interactive virtual reality experience, and using interactive art apps, robot landscapes, and custom mazes. The camp also includes sports and recreation such as classic sports, a go-kart experience, making up new games, water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, a giant sprinkler, tabletop games, lounging, reading from a thoughtfully stocked bookshelf, and long-standing traditions like Find Chuckie and Friday Pie-Day, along with weekly specials like reptile shows, magic shows, humane society presentations, museum programs, circus performances and skills workshops, and Team HERO games and activities.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: Camp hours 8:00am–6:00pm, running May 26–July 31 and closed July 3
Steve & Kate’s Camp has been operating since 1980. The camp states that all year long kids are in rigid structure, and that in summer it gives them freedom to expand and evolve by letting campers choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, describing this as both pure joy for kids and a training ground for life where they are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The camp notes that it is a summer day camp for kids aged 4–12 in general, with a camp age limit of 13 and the option for a camper who turns 14 while attending to finish out the summer.
The program allows families to buy any number of days and send their child to camp on any day, with drop-off and pick-up allowed at any time within camp hours. The camp lists long camp hours, meals and snacks, and all activities as included with no additional fees, and notes automatic full refunds for unused Day Passes and partial refunds for underused Summer Passes at summer’s end. It also states that additional state-required paperwork must be submitted for every child before their first day of camp, and that registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with information on what to bring and not bring.
Steve & Kate’s Camp describes its locations as islands of freedom and notes that it has more than 70–90 summer camp locations. It also states that Colorado camps follow all local water restrictions and conservation requirements and adjust programming as needed. The camp highlights decades-old traditions such as Find Chuckie and Friday Pie-Day, as well as weekly specials including live reptile shows, magic shows, humane society presentations, sports coaching, museum programs, circus residency, and LEGO engineering workshops.
The camp lists partnerships with Longmont Humane Society for presentations about animal work, Denver Museum of Nature & Science for educational programs, Hero Kids Sports for games and activities, Spoon Circus for a residency program, and LEGO Engineering experts from Inspire 2 Learn & Imagine for workshops. The Boulder camp is led by a Director named Susanna.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include a statement from Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, saying that children at the camp blossom, discover a freedom of identity, and find their thumbprint, and noting his one complaint is wondering where the camp was when he was a kid. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that given its philosophy, it is not a surprise that many attend. The Washington Post describes the camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired innovative approaches to programming and payment. The Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
• Schedule: Camp hours 8:00am–6:00pm, running May 26–July 31 and closed July 3
Steve & Kate’s Camp has been operating since 1980. The camp states that all year long kids are in rigid structure, and that in summer it gives them freedom to expand and evolve by letting campers choose which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long, describing this as both pure joy for kids and a training ground for life where they are empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. The camp notes that it is a summer day camp for kids aged 4–12 in general, with a camp age limit of 13 and the option for a camper who turns 14 while attending to finish out the summer.
The program allows families to buy any number of days and send their child to camp on any day, with drop-off and pick-up allowed at any time within camp hours. The camp lists long camp hours, meals and snacks, and all activities as included with no additional fees, and notes automatic full refunds for unused Day Passes and partial refunds for underused Summer Passes at summer’s end. It also states that additional state-required paperwork must be submitted for every child before their first day of camp, and that registered families receive a link to a virtual camp orientation with information on what to bring and not bring.
Steve & Kate’s Camp describes its locations as islands of freedom and notes that it has more than 70–90 summer camp locations. It also states that Colorado camps follow all local water restrictions and conservation requirements and adjust programming as needed. The camp highlights decades-old traditions such as Find Chuckie and Friday Pie-Day, as well as weekly specials including live reptile shows, magic shows, humane society presentations, sports coaching, museum programs, circus residency, and LEGO engineering workshops.
The camp lists partnerships with Longmont Humane Society for presentations about animal work, Denver Museum of Nature & Science for educational programs, Hero Kids Sports for games and activities, Spoon Circus for a residency program, and LEGO Engineering experts from Inspire 2 Learn & Imagine for workshops. The Boulder camp is led by a Director named Susanna.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include a statement from Andrew Stanton, Director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, saying that children at the camp blossom, discover a freedom of identity, and find their thumbprint, and noting his one complaint is wondering where the camp was when he was a kid. Apple’s Hot News states that if kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve & Kate’s Camp. Variety magazine notes that the camp did not set out to cater to children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic, but that given its philosophy, it is not a surprise that many attend. The Washington Post describes the camp as a blend of traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-savvy touch, with a laid-back aura and Silicon Valley-inspired innovative approaches to programming and payment. The Chicago Tribune states that working parents’ worries dissipate as they contemplate Steve & Kate’s model.
Last updated April 30, 2026.