Sober & Digital Detox: camps for adults
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. We track 5 camps in this lane, 3 currently active. The 2 that are on hiatus or gone stay listed and clearly marked, because half the internet still recommends them.
Active camps
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 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.
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.
On hiatus, unverified, or no longer running
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 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.
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