Camping Magazine

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View the digital issue. Features Livin' On a Prayer: The Celebration of Difference in Camp Jonah Berger, MS Ed The Courage to Create Access: Moving beyond Conversation and into...

Congratulations on all your success this past summer! I am so encouraged by the way you overcame a myriad of demanding and onerous challenges to create fun and exciting communities...

Personal and professional development issue.

I grew up a camp kid. I started going to camp when I was eight years old, participating in Camp Ondessonk's "Mini-Camp" program. Back in 2003, the program was Sunday–Wednesday...

The J. Wendell and Ruth T. Howe Golden Lens Awards photography contest.

Staff training issue.

This column is from the 2023 May/June Camping Magazine.

When the people we love die, they leave us with treasured memories. My father left 75 acres in Northern Wisconsin shaped by his influence: a summer camp infused with his values...

I believe that when we become attached to a particular part of the environment, when we try to understand a place and feel at home there, we don’t just learn about that place, we...