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Registration for summer camp is now open!
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CAMP GLEN SPEY RESIDENT CAMP BROCHURE CAMP GLEN SPEY RESIDENT PARENT GUIDE 2010
Want to make new friends? Improve your swimming skills? Learn horseback riding? Girls ages 5-17 can do all of these things and so much more at Girl Scout summer camp.
Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey’s resident camp, Camp Glen Spey is located in Glen Spey, N.Y., minutes from Port Jervis. The 600-acre camp includes a 70-acre heart-shaped lake, beautiful hiking trails, a playing field, three lodges, and raised platform tents. The facilities have flush toilets and hot showers. Girls arrive for four one-week sessions on Monday morning and stay five nights until Saturday morning. Camp Glen Spey offers new programs this year including a Camp Getaway for girls who want to try resident camp, archery, fashion design, whitewater rafting, and waterfront programs that take girls out in funyaks, canoes and rowboats.
The popular Travel Camp program is back and offers girls the opportunity to experience all three GSNNJ outdoor properties in one unique camp session. Girls will spend two nights at Jockey Hollow Camp, where they will enjoy pool swimming and the Low Ropes Challenge Course. Then campers will head for Lake Rickabear, where they will enjoy miniature golf, duckpin bowling and kayaking. After spending their third night in tents or yurts, the girls will travel to Camp Glen Spey for lake swimming, archery, cooking out, hiking, dancing and a talent show. Travel Camp is offered during two weeks in July to girls in grades 6 through 8.
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Camp Glen Spey open houses will be held Sundays, April 11, and May 16 from 1 to 3 p.m.
All three Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey facilities are accredited with the American Camp Association and all swim lessons are provided by certified lifeguards meeting American Red Cross standards. Camp fees include transportation to and from the camp, with bus stops in a number of towns around northern New Jersey.
Camp registration is currently accepted by mail or in person at any of the three service centers.
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| CAMP GLEN SPEY - General Information | |||||
Camp Glen Spey, Glen Spey, NY is situated on 600 acres at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. The camp offers beautiful hiking trails, a variety of plants and wildlife, a large playfield and a 70-acre heart-shaped glacial lake. The camp is open year round from January through the beginning of November. |
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Facilities |
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6 Tent units consisting of: | ||||
| -One - six person platform tent | |||||
| -Seven - four person platform tents. | |||||
| 3 troop houses equipped with: | |||||
| -full kitchen facilities | |||||
| -bathroom | |||||
| -fireplace | |||||
| -wooden bunk beds | |||||
| *Each troop house will accommodate up to 28 people. | |||||
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All tent units and troop houses have a fire circle with benches for your utdoor cooking pleasure. Covered cook shelters and running water are located at all units except Masezana and Tree Top. Bathhouses with flush toilets and showers are shared by two tent units. |
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Ferdon Hall is the main building and houses the staff, Trading Post, Health Center and group dining facility. Food service can be arranged for groups of 84 to 160 people. SATURN building where environmental programs are conducted. Sports Field is spacious and will be the site of sport activities, archery, and physical challenges. Lake Metauque you may enjoy exploring the lake in a rowboat. |
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