Camp Kanuga Overnight Camp
Overnight Camp
Overview
Overnight Camp Details
Since 1931, Camp Kanuga campers have been forming lifelong friendships, experiencing new adventures and exploring their faith in our welcoming Christian community. Our Residential Camp experience is for youth rising grades 2-10, who join us in the mountains of Western North Carolina for 6, 9 or 13-day sessions.
Amid mountain vistas, crisp streams and towering pines, campers cultivate teamwork and friendship, determination and goal setting, self-reliance and self-esteem, faith and spirituality, and healthy outdoor living.
Starter Camp
Reserved for Rising Grades 2-4, this five-night session is designed to expose campers to new activities in a safe and fun way, with minor differences from our traditional camp:
- 6-day, 5-night session
- Cabin groups always stay together
- Planned schedule includes age-appropriate activities with campers their own age during the day
- Program participation with the wider camp population in the evenings (counselor hunt, large group field games, etc)
- Challenge course and climbing wall are used but not the high elements course
- Cabins house 12 campers with 2 counselors.
Starter Camp take place during the first five nights of our 13-day sessions 2, 3, and 4. Starter Campers check in with their peers and enjoy a six-night experience with the larger camp, while spending lots of quality time with their cabinmates and counselors. Check out and Closing Celebration take place on Friday afternoon while the 13-day campers are at rest time. This model is designed to help Starter Campers get a glimpse of what a 9-day or 13-day session will feel like in the future. For now, we’re ready to support their taste of camp!
Stayover Camp
Campers can spend the two days between camp sessions taking special excursions, open to Starter campers and Residential campers.
Whether you’ve decided just one camp session isn’t enough, or if you’re a parent that has a conflict with your camper’s pick-up date, Camp Kanuga’s Stayover sessions are the perfect resolution! Now with new programming that offers fun day trips. Even though camp is no longer in session, campers can rest, prepare for what’s next and go on adventures with their counselors and camp friends!
Stayover is not only an awesome experience for campers, but it helps out mom or dad with pickup and Camp Kanuga staff takes care of washing your child’s laundry.
Special Outings Include:
Cabin Life
Welcome Home! Camper’s cultivate lifelong friendships, connect with encouraging counselors and take part in deep conversations and devotions at the end of the day. The friendships made with fellow cabinmates last a lifetime! Your cabinmates are truly one of the best parts about being at camp.
Camp Dining
Meals at Camp Kanuga give campers and staff the opportunity to dine, share and connect. The act of building relationships and growing together is alive and well around the table at Kanuga. All meals are served family-style from a menu approved by nutrition specialists. We offer a well-balanced diet where fresh fruit is available at all meals and salad and fresh vegetables are available at lunch and dinner. We are a peanut free dining hall and can support many dietary needs for vegetarians, vegans, and other special diets.
