Southwoods is the premier four-week summer camp in the country and is considered a community where children can grow, discover, build confidence and form lifelong friendships. We build our camp experiences around people.
Southwoods, a recognized leader in the youth development field. Campers continue to take their invaluable summer camp experiences from Southwoods with them into adulthood. They then return as staff to help create those same experiences for the next generation of campers. Southwoods is an institution families trust!
Families trust Southwoods summer camp to provide an environment for children that is:
Safe
Secure
Nurturing
Positive
Challenging
Extremely Fun
Values Oriented Program
We value children, and our program has been refined and polished to help support the values parents are teaching at home. Our goal is for children to value themselves, others, and the natural world around them while at summer camp.
The Southwoods’ Summer Camp program:
Meets needs and interests of children
Challenges and provides opportunities for all ages
Is dynamic and ever evolving
Southwoods Camp Programming
Our Southwoods program provides structure with expanding boundries in each of the following:
Land sports
Water sports
Creative arts
Performing arts
Outdoor adventures
Community life
Nature
Our success comes from our ability to combine a respect of the singular talents, strengths and ideas of the individual child while facilitating a positive social networking environment.
Thank you for allowing us to share Southwoods. Continue to enjoy our site! Explore all aspects of Southwoods - a 4 week residential summer camp in Northeast NY, the heart of the Adirondack Mountains. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have and to sign up for Summer 2008:
Southwoods is committed to empowering children. Our goal is to build confidence and self-esteem by reinforcing positive human values. We achieve that goal through cutting-edge programming implemented by a carefully selected and fully trained staff whose investment in children, like our own, is unparalleled.
"I am very grateful that Jas spent her summer at Southwoods. I cannot express my thoughts knowing all the caring, late nights, early mornings, and planning that create a wonderful camping season for so many children. The Southwoods WAY is fantastic!"
The Schmale-Bohac Family Waltham, MA
Life Experiences
Southwoods’ campers are exposed to an experience filled with: