Camp Chipinaw

A coeducational summer camp located just two hours from New York City, Camp Chipinaw has been a destination for children from suburban New York, New Jersey, and throughout the country since its establishment 85 years ago.

For campers able to stay the entire summer, Camp Chipinaw offers an eight-week session, and its neighboring Chipinaw at Silver Lake campus offers a choice of two 4-week sessions for those with less time available. Campers ages 7 through 17 reside with counselors in cozy wooden cabins with other children from their age group. Cabins at Camp Chipinaw feature modern bathrooms and showers, which are cleaned daily by the housekeeping staff. Meals are taken communally in Camp Chipinaw's dining hall, which offers a variety of options including hot dishes, a salad bar, baked potato bar, and pasta bar, as well as bread and desserts made by one of the best bakers in the Catskills.

A typical day for a camper at Camp Chipinaw consists of six periods of activities, meals, special evening activities, and an after-dinner socializing period known as "canteen time." A Chipinaw camper's six periods include two electives, two periods of team sports, and two periods of swimming and other aquatic activities. Among the many athletic activities offered at Camp Chipinaw are baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, soccer, kickball, and football, and elective subjects range anywhere from horseback riding to computer programming and Web design.

In addition to the many opportunities for fun on Camp Chipinaw grounds, campers and counselors take multiple fieldtrips throughout the summer, traveling to various amusement parks, movie theaters, and bowling alleys, as well as to other camps for games and tournaments.