https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/camp-booking-trends-know-2023

When you have a sense of market trends, you can make better informed decisions and run your business more efficiently. Understanding when and how parents book camps, what types of camps and...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/magazine/2023-january-february-camping-magazine

View the digital issue Features ...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-run-teen-program-summer-camp-wary-teenagers

Some camps welcome teens, but others do not — perhaps because they find normative adolescent behaviors intolerable.  Why should we care? Because the summer camp experience is uniquely...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/seasonal-staff-development-leveraging-educational-supervision-recruitment-retention

The average seasonal staff member will clock approximately 840 work hours over an 8-week period. This means we camp professionals are squeezing a regular employee workload of 21 weeks into just 8!...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-creates-communities-belonging-greater-well-being-lives-well-lived

President/CEO Tom Rosenberg's latest Camping Magazine column.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/soul-soul-communication

Year after year, I’m amazed at the breadth of knowledge camp professionals bring and share with each other at the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-staff-healthy-camps

My 1978 Fiat had a toggle switch for lights — and it was awesome. They were on or off, no flipping around with running lights, fog lights, or any other mess.  We love these single-choice, yes...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/enhancing-inclusion-campers-sensory-processing-concerns-through-camp-counselor-training

Summer camps provide children an opportunity for goal achievement, a sense of community, and development of self-concept. Toward that end, goal-directed camp activities revolve around teamwork, as...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leave-no-trace-education-inclusion-approaches-strengthen-your-camp-program

Leave No Trace, the best-known stewardship education program on US public lands, helps to make people a conservation solution through easy, actionable practices that reduce negative impacts.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/yes-improvising-your-revenue-stream

As industry and societal expectations push for updated facilities, in-depth programming, equitably paid summer staff, and larger year-round teams to make it all happen, camps face the challenge of...