Sessions

Full Season:  Kawanhee’s traditional program was originally built upon a 7-week stay.  We feel that this session is most successful in allowing a boy to become fully immersed in all that the camp experience has to offer.

In addition to the Full Season option, we offer shorter stays of 4 weeks (Tumbledown Session) and 3 weeks (Skookumee Session).  For many families, these shorter stays provide their sons with a complete camp experience, while allowing for other activities during the summer and accommodating family vacations and school and sports schedules back home.

Please refer to the DATES AND RATES page under FOR PARENTS for 2023 information.

We will again be offering a Trailblazer Program. Known formerly as our Two Week Program, this offering is for first-time campers younger than 12 years of age who want to give camp a try, but may not yet feel ready for a longer commitment.

The goal of the program is to address the particular interests and needs of this group, by intentionally nurturing and guiding these boys to be comfortable in the camp environment.

In this program, each boy will have the opportunity to experience a range of activities at least once, and have some choice time to select those activities which he decides he would enjoy spending more time in while accomplishing some individual goals. Each boy will climb a mountain and have an overnight camp-out, participate in an all-camp Grey/Maroon competition, attend an all-camp campfire, and eat meals in the dining hall with all the other Kawanhee campers. At the completion of the program, each boy will receive a wooden canoe paddle that marks his accomplishments, including a year stripe acknowledging his participation in the program.

The experienced and dedicated counselors in the Trailblazer Program will support boys as they learn to communicate openly, directly and comfortably, to manage free time, and develop some independence in self-care routines outside of the home environment,  including bathing, keeping up with clothing and personal hygiene. This intentional focus provides boys with the preparation to return to camp the following year, ready to attend one of the longer camp sessions. It is not necessary that campers begin their Kawanhee experience in this Trailblazer Program.  It is offered as another option for those whose sons prefer beginning in this style and in this timeframe.