When choosing a Maine summer camp for girls, you should find a camp that suits your child’s interests. Camps generally focus on personal development, outdoor activities, the arts, sports, or may be ‘all-around’ camps that offer a variety of activities with a diverse group of campers. Summer camp activities include climbing to the top of a mountain, playing team sports, learning to windsurf, and learning how to build a solar-powered oven. These summer camps are ‘girls only. Some also offer boys camping sessions and co-ed camping sessions, as well as special trips and excursions. If you plan to send your daughter to a summer camp in Maine, be sure to enroll as soon as possible because many summer camps are fully booked by mid-May.
Best Maine Summer Camps for Girls
Camp Kippewa Summer Camp for Girls is an excellent ‘all-around’ summer camp. Just south of Augusta, this camp offers horseback riding, water sports, land sports, dance, theater, and arts. Actors and singers perform two stage shows each season and dancers can perform in the annual dance show. Ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and modern dance instruction and choreography are taught at the camp. Watersports include swimming, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, waterskiing, and windsurfing. Sports and fitness activities include gymnastics, archery, field hockey, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball, and frisbee. Arts include painting, drawing, photography, jewelry making, silk-screening, leather crafting, woodworking, pottery, knitting, and stained glass creation. Four week sessions run from June 25 to July 19 and July 22 to Aug 15. The cost is $5650, including bus transportation from major New England cities. Enroll online or by mail. Call 1-800-KIPPEWA (547-7392) for more information about Camp Kippewa.
Best Maine Summer Camps for Girls
Camp Chewonki Summer Camp for Girls is situated throughout over 400 acres of a mid-Maine peninsula. The rocky coastline, forest, fields, salt marsh, pond, and organic farmland offer fun and learning for all who attend this ecology based summer camp. This girls summer camp has a strong focus on self-discovery, teamwork, nature, and earth-friendly living. Girls stay in wooden cabins and all energy used in the camp is from renewable sources, like photovoltaic energy, solar energy, and biodiesel fuel. Campers farm produce from their own gardens and livestock is raised for milk and meat. Activities include fishing, swimming, sailing, canoeing, kayaking, field sports, woodworking, jewelry making, bread making, baking in solar ovens, basket weaving, and designing nature journals. A strong emphasis is placed on skill-building and education with courses in survival skills, sustainable living, composting, recycling, and identifying edible plants. Drama and singing instruction and performances are also available. Girls ages 9 to 16 may choose to attend a 3 week session from June 23 to July 14 or from July 19 to July 28. Girls ages 9 to 11 can attend a 10 day session from July 19 to July 28. Girls ages 8 to 11 may wish to attend a special saltwater session in Wiscasset from Aug 17 to Aug 21. Camp Chewonki also offers co-ed wilderness trips for teenagers. Financial aid camp scholarships are available. Enroll online or by mail. Call 207-882-4047 for more information about Camp Chewonki.
Best Maine Summer Camps for Girls
Camp Fernwood Summer Camp for Girls is on the shores of Lake Thompson in Poland. With just under 200 campers and just over 100 staff members, this summer camp provides personal attention and a family atmosphere. Summer camp activities are designed to help the girls learn about themselves, gain self-confidence, and learn the importance of teamwork. Everyone wears a uniform, so no importance is placed on the superficial. Rustic bunks have no electricity and girls are grouped according to age. Day trips may go to Acadia National Park, Mount Katahdin, the White Mountains, or along the St. Croix and Androscoggin Rivers. These trips provide an opportunity to enjoy nature by hiking, mountain climbing, biking, or canoeing. Lake activities include swimming, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, windsurfing, kneeboarding, wakeboarding, and waterskiing. Sports and fitness activities include aerobics, archery, basketball, gymnastics, horseback riding, field hockey, lacrosse, rifle target practice, a rope course, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. Courses and programs in the arts are also available, including arts & crafts, ceramics, dance (jazz, tap, and ballet), fashion design and sewing, music (guitar and piano), photography, theatre, silversmith, painting, and woodworking. Also, expect many special events and ‘parties’. A seven and a half week session for girls aged 8 to 15 is from June 25 to Aug 13. Call Camp Fernwood at 207-998-4346 (summer) or 610-356-7602 (winter) or request more information online.
