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Camp Asbury offers activities such as canoeing, swimming, biking, archery, ropes courses, ceramics, and hiking. The program includes co-ed options for campers in grades 1–12 and emphasizes small group living with an emphasis on Christian faith development.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
Camp Asbury began summer programming in 1957. It is a year-round camp and retreat center that is a ministry of the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church and welcomes people of all faiths. Camp Asbury is accredited by the American Camp Association and has been a certified tree farm since 1981, managed with a Forest Stewardship Plan revised every five years with the assistance of an Ohio DNR service forester. The mission of East Ohio Camps and Retreat Ministries is to develop comfortable settings and implement quality Christian programs at camp and retreat sites through which members of the East Ohio Conference and persons in surrounding communities can experience Christ’s love for them and all creation, and have the opportunity to share that love with others. Camp Asbury’s mission-specific niche is to connect its unique landscape, which supports a diversity of northeast Ohio life, with the diversity of a 2.5 million person metropolitan area, and to discover and celebrate signs of God’s presence and activity in the interaction of people and landscape.
Throughout the year, Camp Asbury hosts retreats, family reunions, leadership events, and outdoor education programs for congregations, schools, colleges, universities, and non-profit agencies and organizations. The site includes 450 acres of forest, fields, and wetlands, including 80 acres of wetland permanently protected in 2004 by a USDA Wetland Reserve Program conservation easement. Camp Asbury’s Sugar Maple trees are tapped annually by neighboring farmers, and graded pure Ohio Maple syrup is available at the camp store.
One camper shared, “From what I do remember, I wasn’t really involved with nature until coming to camp for the first time.” Another camper said, “I want to do that.”
Last updated June 25, 2026.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
Camp Asbury began summer programming in 1957. It is a year-round camp and retreat center that is a ministry of the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church and welcomes people of all faiths. Camp Asbury is accredited by the American Camp Association and has been a certified tree farm since 1981, managed with a Forest Stewardship Plan revised every five years with the assistance of an Ohio DNR service forester. The mission of East Ohio Camps and Retreat Ministries is to develop comfortable settings and implement quality Christian programs at camp and retreat sites through which members of the East Ohio Conference and persons in surrounding communities can experience Christ’s love for them and all creation, and have the opportunity to share that love with others. Camp Asbury’s mission-specific niche is to connect its unique landscape, which supports a diversity of northeast Ohio life, with the diversity of a 2.5 million person metropolitan area, and to discover and celebrate signs of God’s presence and activity in the interaction of people and landscape.
Throughout the year, Camp Asbury hosts retreats, family reunions, leadership events, and outdoor education programs for congregations, schools, colleges, universities, and non-profit agencies and organizations. The site includes 450 acres of forest, fields, and wetlands, including 80 acres of wetland permanently protected in 2004 by a USDA Wetland Reserve Program conservation easement. Camp Asbury’s Sugar Maple trees are tapped annually by neighboring farmers, and graded pure Ohio Maple syrup is available at the camp store.
One camper shared, “From what I do remember, I wasn’t really involved with nature until coming to camp for the first time.” Another camper said, “I want to do that.”
Last updated June 25, 2026.
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