Adult camps by theme

Every camp in the directory, sorted the way people actually shop. Some camps could sit in two buckets; we file each one where its center of gravity is.

• Classic Sleepaway

  The original article: a rented kids’ camp, bunks, color war, campfires, and a bar. No angle beyond doing summer camp properly, for grown-ups. 14 camps

• Music Camps

  Adult band camps, rock fantasy camps, folk gatherings, and songwriting weeks. You live on site, play all day, and jam long after lights-out was supposed to happen. 13 camps

• Sports & Fitness

  Pro-team fantasy camps, action-sports weeks, ski racing, surfing, and gymnastics for adults. Real coaching, real facilities, and a locker with your name on it. 12 camps

• Women's Camps

  Women-only sleepaways, glamping weekends, empowerment camps, and adult sessions of storied girls’ camps across North America and Europe. 10 camps

• Arts, Crafts & Performance

  Sewing, knitting, circus, theatre, improv, and book camps. The craft is serious; the mess-hall meals and cabin gossip are pure summer camp. 7 camps

• Community & Culture

  Camps organized around identity and community: Jewish adult camp, Black outdoors trips, language immersion, FIRE-movement meetups, alumni weekends, and camps for widowed people. 6 camps

• LGBTQ+ Camps

  Queer summer camps built as community spaces first: sleepaway weeks and weekends for LGBTQ+ adults, from Maine institutions to creator-run camps in the Southwest. 6 camps

• Sober & Digital Detox

  Phones in a lockbox, no booze, sometimes no real names. These camps strip away the things adults hide behind and bet that play does the rest. 5 camps

• Geek, Gaming & Fandom

  LARP weeks, D&D cabins, podcast fan camps, and celebrity takeovers. If a community exists online, someone is now renting a camp for it. 4 camps

• Wellness & Personal Growth

  Camps that pair ropes courses and color war with workshops on reinvention, grief, and meaning. You came for the personal work, but the ropes course does half of it. 3 camps

• Science & Space

  Astronaut training simulators and research-grade telescopes, with dorm bunks included. STEM immersion camps that treat adults like the campers they secretly are. 2 camps