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DuBois Center Summer Camp includes activities such as canoeing, crafts, creek walks, horseback riding, games, hayrides, fishing, sports games, archery, campfires, swimming, hiking, nature study, and team building. Campers may also experience meals around the table, cookouts with dinner cooked over the fire, campfire cooking, roasting hot dogs and marshmallows, jumping in the lake, wading, playing on the watermat, canoe games, pontoon boat rides, Dock-to-Dock swim, Kiddie Pool Kickball, nine square, Gaga, and jumping in the gaga pit. Some sessions feature horse-focused activities such as riding a horse, horse painting, horse baths, making horse treats, feeding and grooming horses before breakfast, and a morning ride off into the sunrise, and Outback includes a night of camping under the stars.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Half-week and week-long summer sessions in 2026, including options such as Just You and Me, Camp Quest, Discovery, Rustic Sampler, Settler, Horse Play, Splash!, Trekkin’ It, Art Explosion, Base Camp, Giddy Up, Dunk’d, Outback, and Saddle ‘Em Up
• Price: Register before February 14th and save $20 for part-week sessions and $40 for full-week sessions; session costs range from $250 per person for Just You and Me up to $685 for Giddy Up and Saddle ‘Em Up
DuBois Center Summer Camp is part of DuBois Center, which is the Camp and Retreat Center of the Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ. Paid summer staff are First Aid and CPR certified and have completed training in safety, program facilitation, activity leadership, and emergency response, and all staff members and volunteers are screened and trained in accordance with Safe Conduct procedures. DuBois Center was established in 1965 as the Conference Retreat Center and Summer Camp of the Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ and has run continuously since 1965, with 2025 marking 60 years of camping at DuBois Center. The mission statement is “Growing together...in Faith, in Respect for Ourselves and Others and in our Care for Creation.” The Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, ability, national origin, religious background, sexual orientation, or gender identity and endeavors to accommodate a variety of physical, mental, emotional, medical, or dietary needs, and DuBois Center hosts camps and retreats for all ages, genders, denominations and races and opens its arms to any and all who wish to join for summer camp. The equestrian program is one of the longest continuously running in the area, has offered first-time rides to visitors of all ages, and has seen many campers grow into a lifelong love of horses, and the camp is beginning to welcome third- and fourth-generation DuBois Center campers.
Last updated January 9, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: Half-week and week-long summer sessions in 2026, including options such as Just You and Me, Camp Quest, Discovery, Rustic Sampler, Settler, Horse Play, Splash!, Trekkin’ It, Art Explosion, Base Camp, Giddy Up, Dunk’d, Outback, and Saddle ‘Em Up
• Price: Register before February 14th and save $20 for part-week sessions and $40 for full-week sessions; session costs range from $250 per person for Just You and Me up to $685 for Giddy Up and Saddle ‘Em Up
DuBois Center Summer Camp is part of DuBois Center, which is the Camp and Retreat Center of the Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ. Paid summer staff are First Aid and CPR certified and have completed training in safety, program facilitation, activity leadership, and emergency response, and all staff members and volunteers are screened and trained in accordance with Safe Conduct procedures. DuBois Center was established in 1965 as the Conference Retreat Center and Summer Camp of the Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ and has run continuously since 1965, with 2025 marking 60 years of camping at DuBois Center. The mission statement is “Growing together...in Faith, in Respect for Ourselves and Others and in our Care for Creation.” The Illinois South Conference of the United Church of Christ does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, ability, national origin, religious background, sexual orientation, or gender identity and endeavors to accommodate a variety of physical, mental, emotional, medical, or dietary needs, and DuBois Center hosts camps and retreats for all ages, genders, denominations and races and opens its arms to any and all who wish to join for summer camp. The equestrian program is one of the longest continuously running in the area, has offered first-time rides to visitors of all ages, and has seen many campers grow into a lifelong love of horses, and the camp is beginning to welcome third- and fourth-generation DuBois Center campers.
Last updated January 9, 2026.
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