Sleep Away Camps
Sometimes it’s nice just to get out of the city.
Imagine walking barefoot through lush, green grass. Swimming in a crisp, cool lake. Swinging under and old oak tree at sunset while sharing stories with your new best friend.
This sleep-away camps whisk your little ones away from the hustle and bustle–the manic placement tests!–of Brooklyn and into the calm, bucolic pastures of the country.
Fresh Air Fund
Camp: Freshkill, NY Brooklyn: CAMBA Office, 855 Flatbush Ave, 3rd Floor
Ages 6 to 15
FREE!! The Fresh Air Fund offers 2-week camps, gratis, for qualifying families. This is an opportunity for city kids to connect with their rural counterparts.
Kings Bay Y at Windsor Terrace
1224 Prospect Ave (at Vanderbilt) Kensington, Park Slope, South Slope, North Slope, Ditmas Park and Windsor Terrace
Contact: info@ywindsorterrace.org, 718-407-6377
Ages: 2-14
Kings Bay Y at Windsor Terrace has a number of summer day camps: Preschool Camp, Summer Day Camp, Hebrew Dual Language Camp, PACK Sleepaway Camp in the Poconos, Basketball Division, and Soccer Division.
What to expect: Campers will swim 3 days a week, take trips 2 times a week, and enjoy activities at the beautiful outdoor facilities on country-like campus in Bay Ridge. The Bay Ridge campus features baseball and soccer fields, an outdoor pool, private bowling alley, movie theater, basketball courts, arcade and cafe. Early drop off and late stay is available. Transportation is available from designated bus stops. Breakfast and snacks are served daily. Highly trained and skilled staff work with small groups of campers.
Kings Bay Y at North Williamsburg
14 Hope Street, Williamsburg
Contact: office@kingsbayy.org, 718-407-6377
Ages: All ages, and looking for camp counselors ages 16 and up.
Enjoy our beautiful outdoor facilities on country-like campus in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 3 days a week, featuring baseball and soccer fields, outdoor pool, private bowling alley, movie theater, basketball courts, arcade and cafe on site
Trail Blazers
Camp: Montague, NJ Brooklyn: 394 Rogers Ave
Ages 7 to 16
Trail Blazers, our nation’s second oldest sleep away camp, boasts a 1,000+ acre facility and offers campers an opportunity to ride horses, forage for food, learn rock climbing skills and more.
Olmsted Center Summer Camp
114 Bay View Avenue, PO Box 291, Cornwall-On-Hudson, NY 12520
Contact: 845-534-7900
The purpose of Five Points Mission is to minister to the spiritual, social, and physical needs of people without respect to ethnic, race or spiritual orientation.
Vacamas
256 Macopin Rd, West Milford, NJ
Contact: 973-838-0492
Vacamas offers day and sleep away camps for kids and teens.
Camp Herrlich
101 Deacon Smith Hill Rd., Patterson, New York 12563
Contact: (845)878-6662, info@campherrlich.org
Camp Herrlich offer day camp, sleep away camp, and travel camp.
YMCA
Many locations
The YMCA offers day camps, sleep away camps, and opportunities for teens to volunteer and work.
Camp Bernie
Port Murry, NJ
Contact: (908) 832-5315
Camp Bernie hosts a day camp, sleep away camp, and a counselor in training program.
Camp Hilltop
Catskills Region
Contact: 800-782-5319
Camp Hilltop offers more than sixty indoor and outdoor activities to meet the interests and skill levels of campers in a safe, nurturing, non-competitive and structured environment.
Point O’ Pines
7201 State Route 8, Brant Lake, NY, 12815
Contact: 518.494.3213
Point O’ Pines is a sleep away camp for girls only.
Camp Echo Lake
Adirondack Mountains
Contact: (518) 623-9635
Camp Echo Lake is dedicated to human development.
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