The adult summer camp directory
All 82 purpose-built adult camps we track: 68verified active, plus the on-hiatus, defunct, and unverified camps that other roundups keep recommending years after the last session. The full list renders below whether or not the filters load, and faded cards mean the camp is not currently bookable.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bummer Camp
Bestselling author Ann Garvin spun her camp-set novel Bummer Camp into a real women-only readers' retreat in the Wisconsin woods.
CAMMAC Music Centre (Lake MacDonald)
Canada's classic amateur-musician camp, run since 1953 on Lake MacDonald in the Laurentians.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Camp Mustache
A woodsy Washington-state lodge weekend where about 50 devotees of the Mr.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Camp Wylo
A low-pressure New England adult camp that relocated from the Berkshires to lakeside Camp Cobbossee in Maine for 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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