Can I be in a cabin with "friends"?

What types of activities are offered?

What is the daily schedule?

What are the cabins like?

How late do I get to stay up?

What kind of food is served? 

How do you decide who gets what activities? 

What can and can’t I bring to camp?

What are the weekly themes for this summer?

Can I be in a cabin with "friends"?

We can almost always have you in a cabin with a same gender friend if you are in the same Division, as long you and your friend request each other on the registration forms.  We group the cabins by our division ages – Division 1 (7-9), Division 2 (10-12), and Division 3 (13-15). It is very difficult to have friends from outside your division in your cabin.  We also try to limit the number of friends in any one cabin so that there won’t be problems with cliques or some campers being excluded.

What types of activities are offered?

Camp Greenville offers a wide variety of programs including horseback riding, swimming in a spring fed lake, canoeing and kayaking, lots of arts and crafts, rock climbing, target sports (air rifles, archery, and .22 rifles), a great high ropes course, a zip line, many sports (volleyball, basketball, lacrosse, soccer, various field sports), fort building, woodworking, and hiking/outdoor skills.  Some activities are restricted to certain ages for safety reasons.

What is the daily schedule?

If you want to do cool early morning activities, then you’ll get up at 7 AM for a fog jog, polar bear dip, or morning yoga.  Or you can sleep a little later until 7:30 so you and your cabin can make “Flag Pole” and the flag raising at 8AM.  Next is breakfast and then your three morning activities.  Then comes mid-day Flag Pole and lunch.  After lunch is your rest hour, snack time, and then afternoon cabin activities, such as tie-dyeing, zipline, swimming, hiking or other fun stuff.  The day starts to wind down with evening flag lowering, dinner, and then fun evening program. Finally, there is vespers back at your cabin and getting ready for bed.

What are the cabins like?

The cabins are fun places where you, your cabin mates, and counselors will live.   We have three different villages of cabins: the Ridgetops, the Lakesides, and the Adventure Cabins.  Traditional campers use the Ridgetop and Lakeside cabins, which have electricity, heat, hot water, toilets, and private, individual showers. The Adventure Camp program (Trekker and Voyager) uses our Adventure cabins that have running water, toilets, and electricity.  Shower houses are nearby that have private, individual shower stalls.  No cabins have air-conditioning – it is not needed due to the cooler weather up on the mountain.  

How late do I get to stay up?

After the fun evening programs (campfires, square dances, capture the flag, etc.) end, you head back to your cabin to get ready for bed and vespers. Vespers is a time for prayers, to talk about the day, think about what you’ve learned, and set goals for the next day. After vespers, you’ll go to sleep sometime between 9:45 PM and 11 PM, depending on your division.

What kind of food is served?

Each meal has great food like you get at home. Breakfasts always have good cereals, juice and fruit, plus eggs,pancakes, or French toast.  Lunch is great stuff like grilled cheese, chicken nuggets, soft tacos, etc., plus a complete salad bar and fresh fruit bar. For dinner, we offer things like as chicken legs, spaghetti, turkey, etc., along with vegetables and a salad bar.  After dinner you get dessert!  In addition, you get a snack in the middle of the afternoon for three days of the week.

How do you decide who gets what activities? 

You will choose the activity classes you want for the week when you arrive at camp.  You and all the other campers in your division will meet together to find out what is available for the three (3) morning periods.  After you hear what is being offered, you will line up for the activities you want.  If there are more campers waiting for an activity than there are spaces in the class, your counselors will collect all of the activity cards from the campers in that line and sort the cards in order of registration date. The counselors then hand cards back to campers who did not have the earliest registration dates so that they can select another activity for the period.

What can and can’t I bring to camp?

Camp is an active place where you are outside having fun, playing sports, and doing amazing things.  You can bring things like books, board games, cards, cameras, flashlights, and other fun stuff, plus any sports equipment you like.  If you bring a mountain bike for the adventure program, it can be used only on the adventure trips and not in camp.  Since you’ll be so busy, you won’t have time for I-pods, game boys, cell phones, etc.  Cell phones don’t get signal at camp anyway, so they are useless.  Don’t bring things like water balloons, fireworks, skateboards, knives or any type of weapon.  Of course, any type of tobacco, alcohol or illegal drug is NOT allowed.

What are the weekly themes for this summer?

Every Friday night we have a themed dinner in the Dining Hall to celebrate the session.  We encourage campers and staff to dress-up for this special occasion.  The weekly themes will be posted as soon as they are decided.