Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tumbleweed - excellent camp with bus pick ups in a lot of areas. My kids attended several summers in ES and they came home covered in mud and happy.

Ew. Would never pay to have that happen to my kids.

Why not? I assume you would pay to have them happy and dirt washes off.

Maybe PP's kids are the plastic kind that you prop up on a shelf and don't speak or move.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tumbleweed - excellent camp with bus pick ups in a lot of areas. My kids attended several summers in ES and they came home covered in mud and happy.

Ew. Would never pay to have that happen to my kids.

Why not? I assume you would pay to have them happy and dirt washes off.

Second Gold Arrow Camp

Anonymous wrote:Tumbleweed - excellent camp with bus pick ups in a lot of areas. My kids attended several summers in ES and they came home covered in mud and happy.

Ew. Would never pay to have that happen to my kids.

Anonymous wrote:Two Rivers soccer camp

Another vote for this one! Fabulous camp.

My kids went to ocean pines in Cambria. Loved it

Two Rivers soccer camp

Cate camp
Highly recommend.
One of my DD even has been there for 2 consecutive years.
Summer residential camp operated by Cate boarding school in Carpinteria( near Santa Babara)

Camp Sea Lab in Monterey

Tumbleweed - excellent camp with bus pick ups in a lot of areas. My kids attended several summers in ES and they came home covered in mud and happy.

1:28 again. Forgot Idyllwild for Arts. It's intensive. My DD went (one? or two?) weeks for Creative Writing, but they've got music and art and stuff like that.

There are two marine/ocean-based camps on Catalina Island. I always hear great things about them--kids love them. My neighbor was just telling me about her kid loving that camp this summer.

My kids went to Skylake Yosemite (outside of Yosemite on a huge lake). It's old fashioned, no electronics. Awesome. Kids mail you postcards or letters. The first year they went for two weeks; the second year, one of mine begged and went for a month! There is a bus to/from LA (our drop off was at the Federal Building in Westwood).

The other one that so many parents raved about is called Gold Arrow (or Golden Arrow).

My kids were also into basketball and there is a hard-core girls' basketball camp at Westmont College in (Montecito) Santa Barbara. It's rigorous. I think they both went one year and one of them went two years. Their cousin from Altadena went one year, she has little experience and wanted to improve. My younger DD was really good, but went to improve too. They stay in the dorms. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of who puts it on, but they do boys too, and other sports. A google search will find it.

For a fun day camp, CaliCamp!

Random other...if you or your spouse graduated from UCLA, sign up for Bruin Woods at Lake Arrowhead (it's a lottery, near impossible to get in in the past, but thanks to how covid impacted it, there's probably a greater chance you'll get in). You're all there and it's a family camp. But there are so many activities for the kids, they go off and you only see them for meals (or activities that you choose to do together). The food is phenominal and there is no end of activities for both adults and kids. USC-affiliated people can come, but they must apologize for their affiliation (all in good fun) and be ready to watch skits and plays involving the evil Tommy Trojan

Anonymous wrote:Canyon Creek is just outside of LA
River Way Ranch Camp is between LA and SF

Have many years experience with River Way, DC had a great time. Know many people who send kids to Canyon Creek who had great things to say.

Thank you!! I will look those up.

Canyon Creek is just outside of LA
River Way Ranch Camp is between LA and SF

Have many years experience with River Way, DC had a great time. Know many people who send kids to Canyon Creek who had great things to say.

Either traditional or specialized camps…marine biology/ecology, for example. No tech camps. It would be for 11 & 14 year olds. Sleepaway. Anywhere in CA is ok with us.