Girl's Resident Camp 

NCCS Camp Newaygo has provided high quality camping programs for girls and young women since 1926. Seventy-seven years of tradition is a powerful motivator. Tradition, a rich history and keeping in step with today’s young women are reasons that four generations of campers have returned to NCCS Camp Newaygo year after year.

Activities
Girls who come to Camp Newaygo can look forward to enjoying the following programs:

Each camper designs her own program of daytime activities from those listed above. With three instructional periods per day, the fourth activity period is non-instructional and offers open waterfront and crafts. Campers interested in horseback riding must sign up upon arrival.

Typical Daily Schedule 7:30 Polar Bear Swim Option 7:50 Wake Up/Showers 8:30 Breakfast 9:15 Cabin Clean Up 9:45 First Activity Period 11:00 Second Activity Period 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Store 2:00 Rest Period 3:15 Third Activity Period 4:30 Open Waterfront & Crafts Activities 6:30 Dinner 7:45 Evening Program 9:15 Snack & Songs 9:45 Evening Thoughts 10:15 Lights Out

Cabin Life
Through cabin and unit living, campers learn to share and live cooperatively as a group while forming new friendships. Living with campers and counselors from across the United States and around the world helps girls accept individual differences while building a deep sense of group belonging.

Girls, starting at the age of seven and continuing until they enter the sixth grade, live in screened cabins with campers of similar age and grade. These cabins are centrally located in Main Camp, close to our bathhouse and Lang Lodge.

Older girls live in units located further from Main Camp. Unit living offers new challenges for campers. Younger teens stay in the two-story Rangers unit or in Tinuwen’s screened "tree houses". Older teens stay in two outpost tent units: Wakonda and Pioneers. All unit campers choose and plan at least one out-of-camp trip during their stay. Past excursions have included trips to Pictured Rocks, North and South Manitou Islands, and the Pere Marquette River.
*Some trips may have an additional fee

Camp Newaygo 2008 Rates    

Find the session that is right for you!

Mini Camp (Session I) - New in 2008 - 7 Year Olds Through 8th Grade Only

This shorter session is perfect for girls just getting started at “overnight camp”.  Programming is tailored specifically to elementary and middle school kids.  Campers will have a chance to sample three new activities each day as well as getting a taste of the fabulous all-camp evening programs.  There is so much to do, including swimming, boating and cooking over an open fire with their cabin-mates, while having a wonderful time laughing and living at NCCS Camp Newaygo, your home away from home.  There is no overnight  campout component this session.

Session II

Celebrating the 4^th of July in a special way during this one week session!  In weeklong sessions campers are able to build their skill and feel a sense of achievement choosing three activities to specialize in all week long ~the choices are amazing! Enjoy the hilarity of the awesome evening programs with all the girls in camp.  Experience a taste of outdoor adventure~ each cabin (girls below seventh grade) has a campout on camp property, which may include a trip to camp’s own island, and each unit (7-11^th graders) heads out for a backpacking, canoeing or tubing trip off site.  You will build friendships here that may last a lifetime.

Session IIIA, IIIB, & III

This is Camp Newaygo’s most versatile session!  You may choose to come for one or both weeks of this session.  This is an ideal session for those two week campers who want to attend with a friend who is only able to come for one week!  Campers who stay for two weeks will have the opportunity to experience a greater variety of activities or pursue some activities longer for a real sense of accomplishment; you will experience two of the outdoor adventure overnights or trips!  Campers who attend the second week (Session IIIB) will Celebrate Christmas in July Newaygo-style and the ever popular counselor dunk tank too!  Be a part of the July Torch campfire tradition that honors our outstanding campers at the end of Session III.

Holdover

For some campers, two weeks of Camp Newaygo is just not enough!  For those who want to attend three or four weeks of camp, you can attend Session III (both weeks) or Session IIIB (the second week) and Session IV.  The Holdover option allows you to do that, without having to travel home.  During Holdover, everyone spends a day at Lake Michigan relaxing, preparing for the next two weeks.  You may do laundry at this time (offered only to campers selecting the Holdover option).  Holdover ends with a giant slumber party in camp’s Lang Lodge!

Session IV

Join this group of girls who come to Camp Newaygo for the full two week session.  Living together for two weeks~ sharing decisions, taking on challenges, making compromises and soaking in triumphs~ coming to know and accept each other, you will make camp friends like no others you have.  In addition to the extended opportunities for choosing and pursuing activities, cabins will go on two campouts and older units will take longer outings such as backpacking on North or South Manitou Island.  This continuous session provides more opportunities for camp cookouts and renowned all-camp evening programs then any other session!  You will take part in ceremonies that date back generations, including the Candle Dipping Ceremony, Wishing Boat Ceremony, and the final campfire where the camp torches are lit and the summer Logbook and its honorees are presented.

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