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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Worth considering Timber Tops/Pine Forest Camp/Owego. Not too far, good mix of kids fom the DC/Philly area. Great places, and Owego is a particularly special place if you have boys. [/quote]

Funny you mention these camps--I actually have a friend from Maryland who recently told me about Timber Tops when I told her I was considering camps in the PA area! She said many kids from her kids' schools go there and to Owego. Timber Tops sounds like a wonderful place and it's one of the camps I'm looking into further/considering for my daughter.

Random question--do you know why there are SO MANY families from Maryland there? I don't mind at all that there are, and considering the location I assume there are a good amount of kids from other areas too. But the friend who I mentioned said that one of her friends said over half of the girls in her cabin were from Maryland?! Which is kind of shocking for a camp in a location that would presumably attract mostly kids from the NY area! Again, it's not at all a problem that there's so many Maryland families there, but there seem to be minuscule numbers of DC-area kids at other camps in the Poconos--what makes Maryland families attracted to these camps in particular as opposed to the several other Poconos camps, which have very few DC kids? Do Timber Tops/Lake Owego have some type of established connection to people in the DC area?

Again, this is all just out of curiosity![/quote]

Great question. No idea, but for whatever reason they seem to skew heavily toward the southern end of the Acela corridor. I[b] guess the NYC kids just go elsewhere. [/b]But anyways, they are amazing camps.[/quote]

NY kids go north into New England or go Upstate. That's not far for them. They have more options. I also think those kids are trying to go where the rest of their community attends camp, which may have historical ties to certain camps.

Whereas kids from the mid-Atlantic go up into Pennsylvania for camp as that's closer. [/quote]

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