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Hayground Camp offers activities such as four square, Ga-ga, time in the Loop Lounge, working in the garden, rehearsing for the Follies, building and racing go-karts, leaping off the trapeze platform, and tasting a carrot picked with their own hands. Campers make choices every day and design their summers based on the passions they want to follow, and the camp follows the lead of its campers. The program includes a kitchen–garden continuum that connects Jeff’s Kitchen and the gardens to help kids learn where their food comes from, along with a curriculum of playful learning and education through experience.
• Ages: 3–13 years old
Hayground Camp was founded in 1996 as a fundraising arm for Hayground School, a small private school with a public mission, and it began at its first location, the Watermill Center, in 1996. Hayground School broke ground at 151 Mitchell Lane in September 1998, and Hayground Camp joined there in the summer of 1999, with Jeff’s Kitchen built in 2002 in honor of founder Jeff Salaway. What started out as 40 campers and a handful of counselors has become a community of hundreds of young people learning to live and play together, and Hayground is described as a safe space to practice community kindness. The camp states that its purpose is to generate opportunities in which children and their mentors can do things they love and discover new passions in a safe, structured environment, and that it believes kids need time, care, and mentoring as they stretch in the physical world and in their physical selves. The leadership team includes Doug Weitz, Daniella Charlton, Janella Walker, Gabe Butler, and Jody Davis-Mitrea. Hayground welcomes all families and accepts registration for children between the ages of 3 through 13.
Last updated February 7, 2026.
• Ages: 3–13 years old
Hayground Camp was founded in 1996 as a fundraising arm for Hayground School, a small private school with a public mission, and it began at its first location, the Watermill Center, in 1996. Hayground School broke ground at 151 Mitchell Lane in September 1998, and Hayground Camp joined there in the summer of 1999, with Jeff’s Kitchen built in 2002 in honor of founder Jeff Salaway. What started out as 40 campers and a handful of counselors has become a community of hundreds of young people learning to live and play together, and Hayground is described as a safe space to practice community kindness. The camp states that its purpose is to generate opportunities in which children and their mentors can do things they love and discover new passions in a safe, structured environment, and that it believes kids need time, care, and mentoring as they stretch in the physical world and in their physical selves. The leadership team includes Doug Weitz, Daniella Charlton, Janella Walker, Gabe Butler, and Jody Davis-Mitrea. Hayground welcomes all families and accepts registration for children between the ages of 3 through 13.
Last updated February 7, 2026.
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