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The Experience of a Lifetime

Camp Kanata is a classic summer camp for kids and teens ages 6-16. Our overnight, day and leadership camps provide safe and fun experiences grounded in the natural world. We are an inclusive and welcoming place dedicated to serving families and campers from diverse cultures, races, backgrounds, faiths, gender identities and perspectives from across the country and around the world.

Camp Kanata Updates

 

Weekend Camp

We still have spaces in our spring weekend camps! Does your camper miss Kanata and just can't wait to be back? Are you an interested parent considering Kanata for your child? Do you want to spend time as a family outdoors and away from technology? Regardless the reason, a weekend at Camp Kanata could be right for your camper or family!

 

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Summer Forms

Forms for ALL 2025 overnight campers will open this Wednesday, Jan. 15. Please have all completed forms turned in by Monday, Mar. 17. It is imperative you complete all forms by the due date. Camper forms allow for our staff to prepare and provide the best experience possible for your child. 

 

Celebration Day 

Calling all! Join us Sunday, Feb. 9  from 12-4 p.m. for our 2024 Annual Campaign Celebration Day! Drop in, grab lunch, take a walk around Camp Kanata or go to an activity! Bring the whole family and have some fun. Be on the lookout for information to register. 

Cabin Updates

We are still on track with our cabin project. The floors and roofs have been installed and we continue to make great progress. Check out our Highlight reel on Instagram for the most up-to-date photos. 

Ryan's Thought for the Week- 1.13.25

On Saturday morning, my youngest daughter was up at 6:15 a.m. asking to go play in the snow. We coaxed another 20 minutes from her before we got up, had coffee and breakfast, and went outside as the sun was finally coming up a bit. As she ran around outside, laughing with glee, I reminded myself that she was four the last time we had any measurable snow. My olderst daughter was enjoying herself, flopping down into the snow with grass blades poking up around her as she made a "snow angel" or at least an angel shaped patch in the snow. My wife and I were tired and unimpressed, but the girls' joy was contagious. We took a walk and marveled at the ice covering leaves, branches and even the net on the basketball hoop. As the sun rose, the light caught the thin coating of ice and it was like everything was sparkling.
 
I'm grateful for my kids in these moments even though they aren't doing anything on purpose. They see things I can't see anymore. They see the beauty and the fun in the most mundane things and through their eyes I can begin to remember what it was like to take things in for the first time. 
 
I've grown up too much. 
 
I'll admit it's been tough this week as I see the images from southern California and check-in on friends who are, for now, OK. And, as we all know, that's just the latest difficult thing to take in.
 
My goal in the days and weeks to come, as the days lengthen and summer feels closer, is to take a cue from my kids more often. To see the world through their eyes. I encourage everyone to take a moment this week to look at something we see all the time or have seen 1,000 times and try to see it through the eyes of one taking it in for the first time. 
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Overnight Camp

A week at Camp Kanata overnight camp is like no other week during the summer. 

This week is filled with new experiences like learning how to canoe or going down the double water slide for the first time. New friends and new challenges shape campers into confident, independent people. 

Overnight Camp
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Day Camp

It’s amazing what you can do in a day – when you find the right place to do it, and the right people to do it with. Enter our world of the great outdoors, great activities, great friends and great fun.

Day Camp
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Weekend Camp

Weekend Camps at Camp Kanata are for first-time campers, veteran campers looking to reconnect with summer friends, mothers and their children and adult/ family weekends.

Weekend Camp

There's more to explore at Camp Kanata!

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Activities

From Alpine Towers to Tarzan Swings and Creative Arts to Soccer, we have it all.

Facilities

There are more than 150 acres to explore!
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Vision Plan

We are always planning for the future, for our Camp and community.
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Mission

We do what's right, we're inclusive and we're for all.