Steve & Kate’s Camp – Hoboken
Elysian Charter School of Hoboken, 713 Washington St., Hoboken, NJ 07030
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Steve & Kate’s Camp – Hoboken offers a wide range of activities, including coding, robotics, sewing, baking, and various making projects. Campers can also spend time in the Sewing Salon, Media Lab, Bakery, Tinker Lab, and Gameroom & Lounge, as well as take part in sports and recreation, water play, tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, stop-motion animation, filming, and lounging. Additional options include virtual reality experiences, interactive art apps, S&K Traditions, Weekly Specials, and music-focused Beat Makers by Lightkeepers International LLC, along with traditions like Find Chuckie and Friday Pie-Day, and occasional go-kart experiences.
• Ages: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 29–Aug 28, 8:00am–6:00pm (closed July 3)
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $104; Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $89; Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,670
Steve & Kate’s Camp – Hoboken runs occasional trips to nearby parks, including Stevens Park and Elysian Park. The camp describes its approach as giving kids freedom in the summer after a school year of rigid structure, with campers choosing which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long. Steve & Kate’s Camp states that this experience is also a kind of training ground for life, where kids will need to be empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Steve & Kate’s Camp has been operating in this way since 1980, and the Hoboken camp lists a director named Adam.
The program includes several flexible features: campers choose their own activities and plan their own days; parents can buy any number of day passes, send their child to camp on any day, and receive automatic refunds for unused passes at summer’s end. The camp notes that long camp hours, tasty meals, and snacks are included. It also states that if a Summer Pass is underused, the difference versus the daily rate is automatically refunded.
For Summer 2026 at this location, Steve & Kate’s Camp – Hoboken offers a Mentorship Program intended exclusively for children ages 14–15. Mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation. The program uses self-directed learning to support mentees in their development into young adults ready to take on more responsibilities. Returning mentees pay $0 for the Mentorship Program, any unused Mentorship Day Passes are automatically refunded in full at summer’s end, and if a Mentorship Summer Pass is used for fewer than 30 days, the difference versus the daily rate is automatically refunded.
As summer approaches, registered families receive an email with a link to a virtual camp orientation that covers local drop-off and pick-up procedures, how to check in and out each day, what to bring and not bring, and other camp details.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp “blossom and discover a freedom of identity” and that “kids find their thumbprint at Steve & Kate’s.” Apple’s Hot News states, “If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and Kate’s Camp.” Variety magazine notes that many children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend, and The Washington Post describes the camp as combining a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-focused approach 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: 4–12 years old
• Schedule: Jun 29–Aug 28, 8:00am–6:00pm (closed July 3)
• Price: Mentorship Day Pass Rate: $104; Mentorship Day Pass (15+) Rate: $89; Mentorship Summer Pass Rate: $2,670
Steve & Kate’s Camp – Hoboken runs occasional trips to nearby parks, including Stevens Park and Elysian Park. The camp describes its approach as giving kids freedom in the summer after a school year of rigid structure, with campers choosing which activities they do, whom they do them with, and for how long. Steve & Kate’s Camp states that this experience is also a kind of training ground for life, where kids will need to be empowered, independent, resilient, and responsible for their own decisions. Steve & Kate’s Camp has been operating in this way since 1980, and the Hoboken camp lists a director named Adam.
The program includes several flexible features: campers choose their own activities and plan their own days; parents can buy any number of day passes, send their child to camp on any day, and receive automatic refunds for unused passes at summer’s end. The camp notes that long camp hours, tasty meals, and snacks are included. It also states that if a Summer Pass is underused, the difference versus the daily rate is automatically refunded.
For Summer 2026 at this location, Steve & Kate’s Camp – Hoboken offers a Mentorship Program intended exclusively for children ages 14–15. Mentees help facilitate camp activities, engage with campers, and help encourage camper connection and participation. The program uses self-directed learning to support mentees in their development into young adults ready to take on more responsibilities. Returning mentees pay $0 for the Mentorship Program, any unused Mentorship Day Passes are automatically refunded in full at summer’s end, and if a Mentorship Summer Pass is used for fewer than 30 days, the difference versus the daily rate is automatically refunded.
As summer approaches, registered families receive an email with a link to a virtual camp orientation that covers local drop-off and pick-up procedures, how to check in and out each day, what to bring and not bring, and other camp details.
Testimonials about Steve & Kate’s Camp include comments from Andrew Stanton, director of WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and Finding Dory, who says that children at the camp “blossom and discover a freedom of identity” and that “kids find their thumbprint at Steve & Kate’s.” Apple’s Hot News states, “If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and Kate’s Camp.” Variety magazine notes that many children of people at Pixar and Industrial Light & Magic attend, and The Washington Post describes the camp as combining a traditional camp experience with a modern, tech-focused approach 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.