Like summer camps for kids, "Famiily Camps" (also called "intergenerational"), provide lots of fun in the Great Outdoors. Simple lodgings, meals included, too.
Summer Camps - for families
Doing a week at a summer camp with your family can make great memories: outdoors fun during the day-time, campfires at night... and price can be as low as under $1000 for a week, for a family of four-- with meals!
Family camps -- also called "intergenerational camps", to distinguish them from the classic kids' summer camps -- typically have beautiful settings, simple lodgings, meals included (probably in a dining hall), and many outdoors and other activities. Sometimes the location for a "family camp" is a traditional kids' summer camp that offers a special family week.
Lodging might be as rustic as a tent-cabins with no electricity, to a wood cabins with bunks and double bed. Shared bathouse is common.
Activities push the bounds of the imagination: stilt-walking, gourd-painting, night-time flashlight tag... At least one place, in Nevada, has a weekly shuttle to casinos. Some family summer camps have a special focus, such as the performing arts.
Find a family summer camp:
YMCA of the Rockies deserves special mention as a award-winning family vacation spot with two giant centers in Colorado.
Samples in the Northeast:
- Maine: Medomak Family Camp: cabins with electricity and bathroom; grownups get cheese tasting, art gallery trips, massages, and yoga
- Vermont: Hulbert Outdoor Center's annual Family Camp
- Vermont: Camp Common Ground, in Starksboro
- New Hampshire: Rockywold-Deephaven - hosting families since 1897
- New Hampshire: Purity Springs Resort has a family summer camp week in August
- New York: YMCA Camp Chingachgook - on Lake George
