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Hi All,

Looking for summer camp recommendations for my kids:

Daughter, age 12:

  • 1-2 week overnight camp
  • themed 1 week day camp (Creative writing, fine arts, digital art, coding).

Son, age 9:

  • 1 week overnight. He might be a little young to go to a solo overnight camp, so maybe just day camp
  • 2-3 weeks of day camps (Sports, football, math, outdoors/fishing)

Long-term, I'd like them to go to the same overnight camp through high school. I'm ok with driving a couple hours each way for overnight camps... or if it's perfect a flight.

Thanks!

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West Austin Youth Association has a bunch of day camps your kids might like.  We sent our two boys there a couple of times and they had a great time.  I don't see their summer camp schedule up yet, it might be worth a call.

WAYA

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12 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Both of my kids and my stepdaughter have attended Camp Champions outside of Marble Falls and love it.  And my daughter was a counselor her last summer before going off to college.  At this point in the year they may be full or close to full, but I highly recommend checking it out.  

https://campchampions.com/

 

How many weeks did your kids generally attend?

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1 hour ago, Masshole Horn said:

How many weeks did your kids generally attend?

Generally two. But after my daughter’s sophomore year of high school, she did their counselor-in-training program which is three weeks. It was a lot of work and she was exhausted when it was over, but she loved it.

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I went to Camp Longhorn (near Burnet) for four years as a camper and four as a counselor.  Sent my kids there too, starting around 2010.  Camp Champions is probably similar. Camp Longhorn has three camps, Inks Lake is the original, Indian Springs was the second, and they have a C3 camp on Inks with shorter terms.

Inks Lake and Indian Springs offer two and three week terms.  When you are young, three weeks is a long time to be away from home.  But when you are older, you don't want it to end.

Terms at the start of the summer are going to be cooler but the water is going to be colder.  The terms towards the end of the summer can be really hot but the water is warmer.

I also did a Scouting trek at Philmont when I was 15.  At Philmont, you are part of a crew that hikes from camp to camp for about 10 days.  I think we covered about 65 miles but I can't remember.  My troop had a qualifying hike that you had to pass before you could sign up.  I wasn't ready at thirteen. Two years later the qualifier was easy, and Philmont was a challenge but doable and I'm glad I waited.

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40 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

Oh that’s cool that they have a thing in Texas now. I went to Ozark in Arkansas as a kid and it was really some of the best times of my life.

The OG is better but OTX isnt bad.  

FWIW I went to Longhorn (Inks 1st term) and send my 10 year old (4th term) there but shiiiiiiit camp is expensive these days.

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On 1/9/2025 at 2:38 PM, Firemans4Horn said:

I went to Kanakuk in the 90’s. They had a Jerry Sandusky type leader that ended up molesting dozens of boys that they covered up for 15+ years. He’s now doing life in prison.

I didn’t get diddled but would not recommend. 

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On 1/10/2025 at 9:39 AM, huge said:

Ozark - Camp OTX

My kids do Ozark in Arky.  The owners, the Torn family, are awesome people despite being Aggies.  Highly recommend the camp.

Depends on the kid.  But my daughter started doing 2 weeks at age 7.  And she had zero homesickness.

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