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 here, 3 of them running. The 2 that aren't stay listed with a label, because half the internet still recommends them.

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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.

    Ontario, Canada Weekend $500 to $999

  • 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

  • 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

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.

    Washington Week-long On hiatus

  • 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

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