Sports & Fitness: camps for adults

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. We track 12 camps here, 10 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

  • 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.

    Florida Week-long $2,000 and up

  • 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.

    Pennsylvania Weekend Varies / not published

  • 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.

    Arizona Week-long $2,000 and up

  • 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.

    Connecticut Weekend Under $500

  • 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.

    California Week-long $500 to $999

  • 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.

    Utah / Oregon Format varies $1,000 to $1,999

  • 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.

    Pennsylvania Week-long Varies / not published

  • 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.

    Florida Week-long $2,000 and up

  • 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).

    New Hampshire Weekend Varies / not published

  • 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.

    Pennsylvania Weekend $500 to $999

On hiatus, unverified, or no longer running

  • 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.

    New Jersey Weekend Status unverified

  • 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.

    Georgia Week-long Creator-run No longer running

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