A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with more than 140 member camps and adventure programs. Maine Summer Camp's mission is to support and promote meaningful developmental, educational, environmental, and recreational experiences for children. Using our online presence, publications, trainings, and conferences, we enhance the public's understanding of the value of Maine camps.
We also assist camp and business members by offering a broad range of information, including directories, resources, legislative and regulatory news, and social media resources. Maine Summer Camps is the public face of the Maine Youth Camping Foundation, which exists to promote social welfare through support or opposition to legislation and regulation affecting youth camping.
We also assist camp and business members by offering a broad range of information, including directories, resources, legislative and regulatory news, and social media resources. Maine Summer Camps is the public face of the Maine Youth Camping Foundation, which exists to promote social welfare through support or opposition to legislation and regulation affecting youth camping.
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Junior Maine Guide Program
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The Junior Maine Guide Program (JMG) is a joint effort of Maine Summer Camps and the Maine State Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife. Established in 1937 by the Maine State Legislature, the JMG Program is an outdoors skills program for youth ages 9-18. It promotes the use of the Maine wilderness for recreation and environmentally responsible land use practices.
Why a Maine Camp
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The state's immense natural beauty - rivers and lakes, rugged mountains, nearly 3,500 miles of coastline - provides an incomparable setting for outdoor learning and adventure. Maine camps go beyond wilderness immersion, they create environmental stewards and outdoors enthusiasts, and they also help develop skills in sports, visual and performing arts, even robots and rocketry.
Choosing the Right Maine Camp
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The broad array of Maine Summer Camps means many camps will fit your family's interests, schedule, and budget. Here's a way to narrow your choices and make a decision that creates an exceptional experience for your child. Do you need to consider special needs - physical, emotional, or spiritual - that will factor into your decision?.
Why Maine
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Maine offers you the same wonders it offers your kids: the chance to put down the stressors of everyday life and enjoy the state's vast natural beauty. In fact, there's more of Maine, and more to Maine, than the rest of New England combined: deeper forests, bigger lakes and longer rivers, more rugged mountains, and more than 3,500 miles of coastline.
Parents
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Whether your child chooses a traditional residential camp, a sports or arts camp, a trip or technology camp, the experience will be transformative. Camps offer community and friendships, unstructured play, they foster independence, confidence, and relationships with role models whose influence can be life-long.
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