Adult camps by theme

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

• Classic Sleepaway

  The purest form of the genre: rented kids’ camps, bunks, color war, campfires, and a bar where the tuck shop used to be. These camps recreate the full summer-camp experience for grown-ups, no gimmick required.

  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. Play is the delivery mechanism; the growth is the point.

  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