Camp Birchwood
Northern Minnesota, 6983 North Steamboat Lake Drive NW, LaPorte, MN 56461
About
Camp Birchwood offers a wide range of activities including archery, riflery, tennis, sports and fitness, and mountain biking. Campers can take part in arts and crafts, ceramics, painting, drama and theatre, dance, yoga, and time in the Literary Loft. Water activities include canoeing, kayaking, sailing, paddle boarding, tubing, waterskiing, windsurfing, open waterfront time, and campfire cooking, along with hiking, climbing, and horseback riding.
• Ages: 7–17 years old
Camp Birchwood describes its mission as a place where girls are embraced with love and support as they engage their whole selves in fun, meaningful activities in the Great Outdoors. The camp notes a focus on discovering self-confidence by teaching girls to root themselves in their own strengths, building lasting friendships and genuine connections, and acquiring essential soft skills with an emphasis on collaboration. It highlights celebrations of accomplishments such as hitting a tennis ball over the net for the first time or completing a week-long trip in the remote wilderness, and describes the experience as a “home away from home” where campers get comfortable fast and are immersed in memory-making that “simply can’t happen back at home or in school.” Camp Birchwood states that girls learn from a vibrant team of women who run every aspect of the operation, and that campers ditch gadgets and spend time outdoors running and exploring woods and tall grasses. The program notes that travel to camp can be arranged via flights with chaperones on certain routes, coach buses, car drop-off and pick-up, or private flights to Bemidji Regional Airport or a local airfield. Camp Birchwood describes itself as championing girls since 1939.
One camper, Emily O., says, “At Camp Birchwood you can be yourself - you don’t have wear makeup or cool clothes. You can blurt out camp songs even if you’re off key and wear pajamas to breakfast. Every year I come home changed. Birchwood has really shaped who I am as a person today.” A parent, Therese M., describes Camp Birchwood as “truly the golden standard when it comes to summer camps” and notes that “the most unbelievable part was to witness how much my children matured over the two weeks.”
Last updated July 26, 2026.
• Ages: 7–17 years old
Camp Birchwood describes its mission as a place where girls are embraced with love and support as they engage their whole selves in fun, meaningful activities in the Great Outdoors. The camp notes a focus on discovering self-confidence by teaching girls to root themselves in their own strengths, building lasting friendships and genuine connections, and acquiring essential soft skills with an emphasis on collaboration. It highlights celebrations of accomplishments such as hitting a tennis ball over the net for the first time or completing a week-long trip in the remote wilderness, and describes the experience as a “home away from home” where campers get comfortable fast and are immersed in memory-making that “simply can’t happen back at home or in school.” Camp Birchwood states that girls learn from a vibrant team of women who run every aspect of the operation, and that campers ditch gadgets and spend time outdoors running and exploring woods and tall grasses. The program notes that travel to camp can be arranged via flights with chaperones on certain routes, coach buses, car drop-off and pick-up, or private flights to Bemidji Regional Airport or a local airfield. Camp Birchwood describes itself as championing girls since 1939.
One camper, Emily O., says, “At Camp Birchwood you can be yourself - you don’t have wear makeup or cool clothes. You can blurt out camp songs even if you’re off key and wear pajamas to breakfast. Every year I come home changed. Birchwood has really shaped who I am as a person today.” A parent, Therese M., describes Camp Birchwood as “truly the golden standard when it comes to summer camps” and notes that “the most unbelievable part was to witness how much my children matured over the two weeks.”
Last updated July 26, 2026.
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