4-H Camping Programs
A Great Summer Camp Experience Awaits
When it comes to providing your child with a life-changing experience, there’s nothing quite like 4-H summer camp. Camp provides the full benefits of a 4-H experience coupled with the fun and wonder of camping in the great outdoors. 4-H camps are about making friends, enjoying new experiences, an opportunity to explore their interests, learning cooperation and teamwork skills and participating in fun activities.
The best gift we can give our kids is to empower them with skills that will last for a lifetime, which is why parents have been sending their kids to 4-H summer camps for decades.
4-H was founded on the belief that when kids are empowered to pursue their passions and chart their own courses, their skills grow and take shape, helping them to become true leaders in their lives, careers and communities.
Pennsylvania 4-H offers residential (sleepover) camps, day camps and special interest camps. 4-H camps are conducted by county 4-H programs or by cooperating groups of counties. There are 11 overnight camp programs offered across the state.
4-H Day Camps offer day long or multi day programs for youth to learn about 4-H project areas and have the experiences of residential camp without sleeping away from home.
One of the greatest summer opportunities – 4-H camp counselor! A fun, leadership-building experience, for a few days each summer, you take responsibilty for the care of someone’s child.
4-H camp is the best week of the year, just ask any 4-H camper or counselor! Discover new interests, skills, and friendship in a few days but make memories for a lifetime.
Participants learn about:
- Being part of a safe outdoor environment for learning, having fun, and being creative
- Working with caring, trained adults
- Being an active participant in a living-learning community
- Being part of a group living with other kids in a cabin, tent or under the stars
- Being part of a group to have fun and learn together
- Life skills while exploring nature
