2012 Summer Camps Reviews and Recommendations (rebuilt)

[Anonymous]

My child enjoyed the day camp at Georgetown Day. They had small groups with good ratios and she liked the field trips.

[Anonymous]

My six year old loves DC-ICE skate camp at Fort Dupont!!!

[Anonymous]

additions I have not yet seen for the MD burbs - City of Greenbelt camps are very high quality for the money - we've been using them from ages 3-10 so far, and tried several. Adults teach the youngest kids, and teen counselors are well supervised (and seemingly well hired, by comparison with other camps.)

We also tried Ancestral Knowledge camp - also in greenbelt right off the parkway. The kids basically muck around in the woods...so it's cool for an outdoor camp and they learn stuff like tracking, making shelters, camoflage, fire building, plant identification, making a bow and arrow, primitive pottery, bark baskets.

My kids loved it. It's boy-heavy, but that worked out ok.
It's low key, and they use knives. Super type-A helicopter parents would not enjoy it I would think. They don't hunt or anything, but it's implied by the other kids when they learn tracking that they might want to eat one if stranded in the wilderness - so that might be too much for some vegan kids.

It's small, so drop off/pick up is nice and quiet. Later in the summer they also run overnight camps.

Several University of Maryland camps are great (sports, bugs, terp quest, gymkana) and used by many people I know.

One daughter did camp at Trapeze School of NY at the navy yard, which was good, but expensive without time to work more intensely on anything. We'd prefer classes for the money, but overall she rated it highly.

[Anonymous]

DS (almost six) proclaimed Valley Mill the best camp of the summer (but he also really enjoyed both Headfirst Day Camp and St. Albans Tennis Camp).

[Anonymous]

So what is everyone doing for Summer 2013?

[Anonymous]

Sending our kids to camp. What are you doing?

[Anonymous]

Signing up for Acting for Young People, TIC Camp, and a couple of RECenter camps, plus band camp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what is everyone doing for Summer 2013?

Rim Rock. Girls overnight in WV. Loves it.

[Anonymous]

My daughter will be heading to overnight camp at Camp Hidden Meadows in WV for a third year.

[Anonymous]

My son did soccer camp at Good Counsel in Olney in 2012 and loved it. Very well run camp, my son loved his counselor.

[Anonymous]

Anyone have recommendations for a camp in Montgomery county, MD?

[Anonymous]

I think horses "added" camps are very problematic. The kids never seem to spend any time with the horses, riding -- too much waiting around and learning about horse care, or driving to where the horses are kept. It is very boring and frustrating. My kids said -- no more! Cannot speak to a real professional "all horse" camp.

[Anonymous]

We are planning to return to Congo camp this summer. Each summer it's my kids favorite and easiest for me cause lunch is included and my 3, 7, and 11 year old can all be at the same place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have recommendations for a camp in Montgomery county, MD?

Butler Camp

[Anonymous]

PP. What did you like best about Butler camp? We're considering this one as well.