Camp RIO

Camp RIO offers summer camp sessions each summer, including day, overnight, and mini-overnight sessions. Campers take part in canoeing, archery, sports, crafts, dance, and songs, and overnight campers also have special evening programs. Camp RIO also offers outdoor education with adventure-based learning activities such as archery, plant and animal identification, team-building, and canoeing.

Programs

• Summer Camp — Day, overnight, and mini-overnight sessions each summer · Campers participate in outdoor activities such as canoeing, archery, sports, crafts, dance, and songs; overnight campers also have special evening programs.
• Outdoor Education — Adventure-based learning for students with activities such as archery, plant and animal identification, team-building, and canoeing.
• JROTC Leadership & Career Readiness — A one-day leadership and career readiness experience combining JROTC leadership development, STEM applications, and workforce preparation through immersive outdoor learning.
• Future Educators — Students prepare and facilitate age-appropriate learning experiences for real elementary aged students.
• Law Enforcement — Students rotate through dispatch, investigation, security, and incident-response roles.
• Engineering Design Challenge — Students work as engineering firms to solve authentic infrastructure challenges, building and testing prototypes and presenting recommendations.
• Carpentry & Construction Challenge — Students experience the construction process from planning through completion using drawings, tools, construction math, safety procedures, and quality-control practices.
• Work Ready Skills (Teambuilding) — Adventure-based and ground-level team challenges that mirror workplace demands.

At a glance

• General schedule: Summer camp sessions occur each summer.

About the provider

Camp RIO says its mission is to provide world-class nature-based programming to the Rio Grande Valley by engaging children, families, and educators in outdoor adventures in Deep South Texas. Camp RIO is an American Camp Association (ACA) Accredited Camp, and it lists a 10 Year Anniversary Video among its history-related facts.

Campers are never left unsupervised. Camp RIO follows the “Rule of 3”: counselors and campers must always move in groups of three or more. Security Guards patrol the property from sundown to sunrise during the summer camp season. Camp RIO has fencing around its 85 acres, two electric gates locked at all times, and visitor access requires appointment, background check, and visitor badge.

Last updated October 31, 2026.