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All 82 adult camps we track, 68 of them verified active. The rest are on hiatus, gone, or unconfirmed, and they stay listed with a plain label because other sites keep recommending them years after the last session. Active camps sort first.

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  • 'Camp' Camp

    America's longest-running LGBTQ+ adult summer camp, holding its 26th season in 2026 at a new central Maine site.

    Maine Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Adult Space Academy (Space Camp for Adults)

    The most famous themed camp in America runs a grown-ups-only version: Adult Space Academy at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville packs astronaut training simulators, the multi-axis trainer, and a simulated shuttle mission into a three-day weekend with meals and habitat lodging included.

    Alabama Week-long $500 to $999

  • Astronomy Camp for Adults (University of Arizona)

    Astronomer Don McCarthy has run this camp since 1988, putting adults behind the eyepieces of research-class telescopes at Mount Lemmon Observatory above Tucson.

    Arizona Week-long $500 to $999

  • Augusta Heritage Center Summer Workshops

    A 50-year-old Appalachian folk arts camp where adults study blues, Cajun, and old-time music face to face with master artists for a week at a time.

    West Virginia Week-long Varies / not published

  • Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) Weekend Workshops

    A 30-plus-year-old program run by state fish and wildlife agencies that gives women 18+ a full sleepaway-camp weekend at residential camps: bunks, dining halls, and rotating classes in archery, fishing, firearms, paddling, and survival skills.

    Multiple locations, USA / Canada Weekend Under $500

  • Boston Red Sox Fantasy Camp

    The Red Sox flagship adult baseball camp at their spring training complex: eight days of daily games and coaching from former Sox players, with at least one game inside JetBlue Park, the mini Fenway.

    Florida Week-long $2,000 and up

  • Broadway Fantasy Camp

    A Manhattan fantasy camp for adults who never shook the theatre bug: rehearse numbers from big musicals with Broadway pros, tour backstage at a Broadway house, do headshots and mock auditions where everyone gets cast, and toast at an opening-night party.

    New York Format varies $500 to $999

  • Bummer Camp

    Bestselling author Ann Garvin spun her camp-set novel Bummer Camp into a real women-only readers' retreat in the Wisconsin woods.

    Wisconsin Weekend Varies / not published Creator-run

  • CAMMAC Music Centre (Lake MacDonald)

    Canada's classic amateur-musician camp, run since 1953 on Lake MacDonald in the Laurentians.

    Quebec, Canada Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Camp Atta Girl

    A traveling women-only summer camp that rents classic camp facilities in several states, including a dedicated Texas edition, for weekends of archery, crafts, campfires, and cabin bonding.

    Multiple locations, USA Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp BYOB

    Ananse Events runs Camp BYOB as Chicagoland's 21+ summer camp weekend at a lakeside camp in Ingleside, blending nostalgia programming, nature, theme parties, and the 'power of play' into a sleepaway format.

    Illinois Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp Château

    The TikTok-viral women's summer camp in the south of France: five-night all-inclusive sessions where women 21+ (trans women welcome) sleep in château bunks or glamping tents, do crafts and pool days, and drink local wine with dinner.

    France Format varies $1,000 to $1,999

  • Camp Chief Ouray Adult Camp

    The century-old YMCA camp at Snow Mountain Ranch runs a dedicated adult session pitched largely at campers 50 and up, with lodge accommodations at 8,750 feet in the Colorado Rockies.

    Colorado Week-long Under $500

  • Camp Forever Fun

    The Midwest's answer to the coastal adult-camp brands: a 21+ all-inclusive weekend in southwest Michigan with archery, a high ropes course, canoe races, a climbing wall, and a giant swing by day.

    Michigan Weekend Under $500

  • Camp Improv Utopia

    A nonprofit-run network of 18+ improv sleepaway camps where campers split their days between workshops with top improv instructors (Craig Cackowski among 2026 East faculty) and genuine camp fare like archery, axe throwing, and arts and crafts.

    California / New York / Colorado Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp John Waters

    The Pope of Trash hosts an adults-only takeover of Club Getaway's Berkshires camp each September, judging costume contests, hosting movie marathons, and mingling with campers between zip lines and Bloody Mary bingo.

    Connecticut Weekend $500 to $999 Creator-run

  • Camp Mustache

    A woodsy Washington-state lodge weekend where about 50 devotees of the Mr.

    Washington Weekend Under $500 Creator-run

  • Camp No Counselors

    The Shark Tank-famous brand that turned adult summer camp into a category, Camp No Counselors runs three-night, all-inclusive weekends at rented kids' camps in New York, California, and Texas.

    New York / California / Texas Weekend $500 to $999

  • Camp Reset

    Toronto's beloved phone-free camp, running since 2015, locks devices away at the gate and enforces three rules: no phones, no work talk, no real names.

    Ontario, Canada Weekend $500 to $999

  • Camp RoundUp

    Founded in 2022 by Alison Rampa and Erica Chiseck, Camp RoundUp is an unapologetically pro-fat summer camp for 'ladies and theydies' 21+, covered by NPR for its swim-dance-play-celebrate ethos.

    Ohio Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp Runabout

    An all-inclusive Poconos summer camp built for the run-club crowd: mornings open with scenic group runs, then dissolve into zip lining, paddleboarding, ropes courses, and arts and crafts.

    Pennsylvania Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp Sober Fest

    A drug- and alcohol-free sleepaway camp for adults in recovery, mixing classic camp activities with meetings, workshops, and campfire fellowship at a lakeside camp in the Sequoias.

    Texas / California Format varies Varies / not published

  • Camp Social

    NYC social-events creator Liv Schreiber spun her Hot and Social community into the self-described #1 adult summer camp for women: roughly 400 campers per weekend at a lakeside camp in Equinunk, Pennsylvania, 2.5 hours from NYC. Tickets have sold out in as little as 10 minutes against a waitlist reported in the tens of thousands, and the pitch is that 99% arrive solo and leave with friends.

    Pennsylvania Weekend $500 to $999 Creator-run

  • Camp Tamakwa: Not For Kids Only

    Storied Algonquin camp Tamakwa (the setting for the film Indian Summer) runs 'Not For Kids Only,' an adults-only long weekend each September with the full Tamakwa program: sailing, canoe trips, crafts, campfires, and dining-hall meals on South Tea Lake.

    Ontario, Canada Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp Tanamakoon September Adult Program

    When the kids leave, this century-old Algonquin Park girls' camp runs six-day adult weeks for campers 55+, with canoeing, swimming, crafts, and lakeside downtime on Tanamakoon Lake.

    Ontario, Canada Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Camp Wenonah Women's Weekends

    Muskoka kids' camp Wenonah hands its waterfront to grown women for fall getaway weekends of canoeing, campcraft, specialty workshops, and optional massages, two hours north of Toronto.

    Ontario, Canada Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp Widow (Soaring Spirits)

    Soaring Spirits' long-running gathering for widowed people, deliberately branded a camp: name tags, camperships, mixers, and a reunion feel layered over workshops and research-informed grief programming.

    Multiple locations, USA / Canada Weekend Varies / not published

  • Camp Wildfire

    The UK's benchmark adult summer camp, staged in a heritage pine forest 40 minutes from London and once pitched on Dragons' Den.

    United Kingdom Weekend Under $500

  • Camp Workroom Social

    Jennifer Wiese of Brooklyn's Workroom Social runs a full sleepaway camp for adult sewists at a Catskills YMCA camp, pairing intensive apparel classes taught by internet-famous sewing instructors with hiking, ziplining, and cabin life.

    New York Weekend $1,000 to $1,999 Creator-run

  • Camp Wylo

    A low-pressure New England adult camp that relocated from the Berkshires to lakeside Camp Cobbossee in Maine for 2026.

    Maine Weekend $500 to $999

  • Camp Yoshi

    A Black-owned outfit founded in 2020 to reclaim the outdoors for Black people and allies, running curated basecamp-style trips where the tents, gear, and chef-cooked meals are handled and the days are programmed with hikes and adventure.

    Oregon Format varies $2,000 and up

  • Campowerment

    Founded by former TV producer Tammi Leader Fuller, Campowerment spent a decade running expert-led sleepaway weekends where women mix 'powerful play' like ropes courses and color wars with workshops on reinvention, grief, and career.

    North Carolina Weekend $1,000 to $1,999

  • Chicago Cubs Fantasy Camp (Waveland Events)

    A week of living like a Cub: personalized on-field uniforms, teams coached by pairs of former Cubs players, and daily games under the Arizona sun.

    Arizona Week-long $2,000 and up

  • CK Afterhours

    An Australian adults-only camp weekend at Adekate Camp in regional Victoria: cabins sleeping 7-13, all meals and drinks included, a licensed bar, zip line, arts and crafts, beer olympics, themed dress-ups, and a DJ. It pitches itself as childhood camp nostalgia with grown-up privileges.

    Australia Weekend $500 to $999

  • Club Getaway (Camp Getaway adult weekends)

    The granddaddy of the format: a 300-acre permanent camp resort in Connecticut's Berkshire foothills that has run programmed adult weekends since the 1970s, later starring in Bravo's Camp Getaway.

    Connecticut Weekend Under $500

  • Concordia Language Villages Adult Programs

    The famous Minnesota language-immersion camp network runs adult sessions in its architecturally themed villages, where grown-ups live entirely in French, German, Spanish, and a dozen other languages for a weekend or a week.

    Minnesota Week-long $500 to $999

  • Dungeons & Cabins

    Founded by professional dungeon master and game designer Sammy Glicker, Dungeons & Cabins books out a SoCal forest camp ('Paladin's Retreat') for weekends of interconnected multi-table D&D campaigns, where one table's choices ripple into another's.

    California Weekend Varies / not published

  • Dyke Camp

    Founded by organizer Nic Pieta in 2025 on the premise that queer people should get to have fun in the woods together, Dyke Camp jumped from a 75-person weekend in upstate New York to 150+ campers taking over Camp Ramblewood in Maryland.

    Maryland Weekend Varies / not published

  • Endless Summer Surf Camp (Adult Camps)

    Running since 1992, this San Clemente institution holds dedicated adult sessions where campers sleep in tents at the fabled San Onofre surf break and take daily coached surf lessons with meals cooked at camp.

    California Week-long $500 to $999

  • Epic Nerd Camp

    Running since 2016, Epic Nerd Camp is the flagship camp for grown-up geeks: five days of LARP, tabletop gaming, quidditch, wand-making, and 'doing IRL what your character does in-game.' Historically hosted in the Poconos, the 21+ camp moved to Camp Ramblewood in Darlington, Maryland, with 2026 registration open for August 15-19.

    Maryland Week-long $500 to $999

  • GAL Camp (Grown Ass Lady Camp)

    Grown Ass Lady Camp does exactly what the name promises: women-only glamping weekends in Texas and North Carolina built around crafts, flip cup, swimming, dance parties, and a team 'Rainbow Race Campetition' capped by a talent show.

    Texas / North Carolina Weekend Varies / not published

  • Glen Bernard Camp Women's Weekend

    The 700-acre girls' camp on Lake Bernard, running since 1922, opens each September for a women's weekend of high ropes, canoeing, crafts, yoga, and its zipline, with massage and dance thrown in.

    Ontario, Canada Weekend Under $500

  • Grown-Up Getaway Camp (Sierra Nevada Journeys)

    Outdoor-education nonprofit Sierra Nevada Journeys opens its 400-acre Grizzly Creek Ranch campus to adults for a weekend of ziplining, archery, crafts, and campfires in the Sierra foothills near Lake Tahoe.

    California Weekend $500 to $999

  • Interlochen Adult Camps (Chamber Music & Choir)

    Interlochen's College of Creative Arts runs adult versions of its famous arts camp, including a chamber music week and a choir week on the same northern Michigan campus the kids use.

    Michigan Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Jazz Camp West (Living Jazz)

    An eight-day jazz immersion for adults (teens welcome too) held at a rustic camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains redwoods.

    California Week-long $2,000 and up

  • JoyCamp

    Jacques 'The Party Scientist' Martiquet, a former festival medic who built a following throwing sober raves, runs JoyCamp as a substance-free weekend camp in the North Carolina mountains.

    North Carolina Weekend Under $500 Creator-run

  • Knit Camp (Dappled Fern Fibers)

    Yarn shop Dappled Fern Fibers runs 'Knit Camp' out of rustic cabins on Devil Track Lake near Minnesota's Gunflint Trail, now in its fourth year and facilitated by owner and life coach Dorothy Broomall.

    Minnesota Format varies Varies / not published

  • Ladies Rock Camp (Girls & Ladies Rock MKE)

    A three-day rock camp for women and gender-expansive adults 18+ where total beginners are handed a bass, drums, guitar, keys, or a mic, form a band, and write an original song.

    Wisconsin Weekend Under $500

  • Lez Camp

    Born in the Arkansas Ozarks, Lez Camp gives queer women, trans, and nonbinary adults a sapphic take on camp weekends: games, swimming, campfires, and community, now supplemented by touring Mini Camp editions and hotel-based gatherings.

    Arkansas / Oklahoma Weekend Varies / not published

  • Mahre Training Center Ski Camps

    Olympic champions Phil and Steve Mahre personally coach adults through gates, drills, and nightly video review at their long-running training camps.

    Utah / Oregon Format varies $1,000 to $1,999

  • NECCA Circus Intensives & Skills Weeks

    The New England Center for Circus Arts runs week-long adult 'traincations' in its purpose-built Trapezium: pick a main focus like trapeze, aerial fabric, lyra, hand balancing, or wheel arts, then fill the rest of each day with other disciplines.

    Vermont Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • New England Adult Music Camp (Snow Pond)

    The adult offshoot of the historic New England Music Camp, where amateur wind, string, and jazz players spend a lakeside week in ensembles, seminars, and drum circles.

    Maine Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Fantasy Camp

    Run by the Flyers Alumni Association for twelve years, this camp drafts recreational players onto four teams coached by franchise legends.

    Pennsylvania Week-long Varies / not published

  • Puget Sound Guitar Workshop

    A beloved adult guitar camp running since 1974, where a few hundred players bunk at a woodsy camp on Washington's Kitsap Peninsula for week-long sessions.

    Washington Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Queer Camp

    What began as trans YouTuber Ty Turner inviting a dozen fans on a group camping trip has become an annual week of eco-camping on a 156-acre wilderness preserve outside Santa Fe.

    New Mexico Week-long Varies / not published Creator-run

  • Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

    The original rock fantasy camp, running for 30 years: campers are placed in bands, coached by touring pros, and jam with headline mentors like Roger Daltrey, Stewart Copeland, and Michael Anthony before performing at a famous venue such as the Whisky a Go Go.

    California / Florida Week-long $2,000 and up

  • Showcation

    A 21+ 'summer camp, reimagined' at Camp Ramblewood that leans harder into music and comedy than most adult camps: cabins, all-you-can-eat meals, pool parties, and camp activities by day, DJ sets and stand-up at night.

    Maryland Weekend Under $500

  • Soul Camp

    Founded in 2014 by Michelle Goldblum (Garside) and Alison Leipzig, Soul Camp ran bicoastal 'sleepaway camp for the soul' weeks packed with yoga, sound baths, workshops, and color wars.

    New York Week-long $500 to $999

  • Stanford Sierra Camp Alumni & Adult Weekends

    Stanford's storied Sierra Camp on Fallen Leaf Lake devotes spring weekends to grown-up programming: a Memorial Day weekend with faculty lectures and wine-paired dinners, a women's Healthy Living Retreat, and affinity weekends like the Black alumni camp.

    California Weekend $500 to $999

  • SummerKeys

    A 'music vacation for adults' in the easternmost town in the US, where amateur pianists, harpists, and other instrumentalists get daily lessons, practice time, and ensemble work with no auditions.

    Maine Week-long Varies / not published

  • SummerSongs

    A nonprofit songwriting camp running since 1999, where adult singer-songwriters of every level spend a week in classes and song circles led by nationally touring writers.

    New York Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Tampa Bay Lightning Fantasy Camp

    Adults 21+ of any skill level get coached by Lightning alumni and compete for a Fantasy Camp Championship Cup on the team's NHL ice.

    Florida Week-long $2,000 and up

  • The Original Adult Gymnastics Camp

    Fifteen years running, this is the grassroots gathering of the adult gymnastics community: a full weekend of open training, coached rotations, and skill clinics for grown-ups who never stopped flipping (or just started).

    New Hampshire Weekend Varies / not published

  • The Swannanoa Gathering

    A summer institution at Warren Wilson College where adult folk musicians live in dorms for themed weeks of fiddle, banjo, old-time, and traditional song.

    North Carolina Week-long $1,000 to $1,999

  • Trybal Gatherings

    Founded in 2017, Trybal Gatherings is the leading Jewish adult summer camp, drawing 20s-40s crowds for all-inclusive weekends of color war, Shabbat under the stars, waterfront sports, and l'chaims.

    Multiple locations, USA Weekend $500 to $999

  • Two Islands Weekend

    Ontario's flagship adult camp weekend, taking over the 1,100-acre Camp Timberlane on Lake of Two Islands for 300-plus campers each September.

    Ontario, Canada Weekend $500 to $999

  • Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp

    Comedian-podcaster Dan Cummins (Timesuck, Scared to Death) and co-host Lynze run a full sleepaway camp for their 'Cult of the Curious' fanbase at a Pennsylvania camp property.

    Pennsylvania Weekend $1,000 to $1,999 Creator-run

  • Woodward PA Adult Camps

    The legendary action-sports camp opens its parks to the 18+ crowd for dedicated three-night sessions: skateboarding, BMX, mountain bike, parkour, scooter, and roller skating with pro coaching and foam pits to fall into.

    Pennsylvania Weekend $500 to $999

  • A-Camp (Camp Autostraddle)

    Autostraddle, the internet's biggest indie queer women's publication, ran this beloved mountain sleepaway camp for its readership from 2012 to 2019, bringing 300+ queer women, non-binary folks, and trans campers together for workshops, panels, crafts, and performances.

    California Week-long Creator-run On hiatus

  • Camp Copperhead

    Steve Earle's Catskills songwriting camp put fans in cabins at Full Moon Resort for days of craft classes, co-writes, and campfire performances with Earle and guests like Shawn Colvin.

    New York Week-long Creator-run On hiatus

  • Camp Lost Boys

    The world's only sleepaway camp exclusively for transgender men 18+, built around archery, hiking, swimming, and campfires rather than programming about being trans.

    Multiple locations, USA Weekend On hiatus

  • Camp Rahh

    The Pacific Northwest's signature adult camp ran for a decade on a 47-acre waterfront site on Samish Island, Washington, with a countercultural rulebook: no drugs, no alcohol, no phones, and try not to talk about your job.

    Washington Week-long On hiatus

  • Camp Winnarainbow Adult Camp

    Woodstock icon Wavy Gravy's circus and performing-arts camp in Mendocino County has run a legendary grown-ups' session for decades, teaching trapeze, stilt-walking, juggling, and clowning to adults sleeping in tipis on Black Oak Ranch.

    California Weekend On hiatus

  • Camp Halcyon

    Wisconsin's flagship adult camp takes over Camp Lakotah in Wautoma for Thursday-to-Sunday weekends that pair beach yoga, archery, and axe throwing with wine, cider, and whiskey tastings.

    Wisconsin Weekend Status unverified

  • CampJoli

    A newer entrant riding the Camp Château wave: CampJoli markets summer-camp sessions for women at a French château, with the same bunks-crafts-and-rosé formula.

    France Format varies Status unverified

  • Zombie Survival Camp

    The tongue-in-cheek New Jersey camp where adults learn genuinely useful apocalypse skills: crossbow and knife throwing, first aid, bug-out bags, firearms with NRA-certified instructors, and the house martial art 'Zombitsu.' The site and Facebook presence have gone quiet, so current operations could not be confirmed.

    New Jersey Weekend Status unverified

  • Camp Bonfire

    Founded by Philly theatre artist Benjamin Camp and poet Jacob Winterstein, Camp Bonfire took over a boys' camp on Lake Owego in the Poconos for 21+ weekends of archery, ropes courses, kite-making, and nightly bonfires, with a distinctly artsy, no-self-improvement ethos.

    Pennsylvania Weekend No longer running

  • Camp GLP (Good Life Project)

    Podcaster Jonathan Fields took over a Catskills-area kids' sleepaway camp each August for five years, hosting 425 listeners of his Good Life Project podcast for keynotes, campfires, color wars, and workshops on meaningful work and wellbeing.

    New York Weekend Creator-run No longer running

  • Camp Grounded

    The camp that invented the digital detox genre: founded in 2013 by Levi Felix, Camp Grounded collected phones at the gate and gave grown-ups camp names, typewriters, and analog play across roughly 15 sessions in four states.

    California Weekend No longer running

  • Camp Mighty

    OG mommy-blog-era creator Maggie Mason (Mighty Girl) ran Camp Mighty as a camp-flavored Palm Springs weekend where readers worked on their 'life lists' between pool parties, talent shows, and crafts at the Ace Hotel.

    California Weekend Creator-run No longer running

  • Camp Nerd Fitness

    Steve Kamb's Nerd Fitness community gathered over 400 members from around the world in the north Georgia mountains for camps blending workouts, quests, and tabletop nerdery.

    Georgia Week-long Creator-run No longer running

  • Camp Throwback

    Author and body-acceptance blogger Brittany Gibbons launched Camp Throwback in 2013 as a boozy, unapologetically nostalgic 21+ sleepaway in rural southwest Ohio, complete with drunk field day, theme parties, and crafts.

    Ohio Week-long Creator-run No longer running

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