As a classic summer camp, our cabin amenities have all the essentials for campers to be comfortable and safe while at camp. Each of our cabin living spaces are fully finished, with lights, electrical outlets, air conditioning (for very hot nights), windows, fire extinguishers, porches and a clothesline. Each cabin is a short walk away from one of our three washroom facilities. Night lights are available for campers who require them.

While at camp, campers sleep in bunk beds outfitted with vinyl mattresses. Campers bring their own sheets. pillows, and sleeping bags. Under the beds, there is storage for campers belongings, and cabins either have wall hooks for coats, or cubbies for additional belonging storage. 

While at camp, our canoe tripping campers stay overnight in platform tents. These tents have electricity, wooden floors, and wooden beds with mattresses. 

For all programs other than our leadership programs, a camp counsellor stays overnight in the camper cabins and is there to support throughout the day. 

Our campers are scheduled for showers every three days in our main washroom and shower facility. Campers can shower at any time in our eco-friendly (heated) showers. 

Three meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) are served each day, and three snacks are served each day (one snack in-between each meal). All meals are eaten as a community in our dining hall. Cabin groups sit together and eat in a family-style fashion (big bowls of each dish item are passed around the table).

Some common breakfast menu items are pancakes and bacon, french toast and sausage, scrambled eggs, hash browns and bacon, and a breakfast sandwich or breakfast wrap. Every breakfast is served with either an oatmeal bar or a yogurt bar. 

Some common lunch items include chicken burgers, pizza, hot dogs, chicken cesar wraps, tacos, mac & cheese, and grilled cheese. Each lunch is served with a soup bar (except on very hot days) and a salad bar. 

Some common dinner items include spaghetti, chicken stir fry, butter chicken or vegetable curries, chicken, vegetables and potatoes, pierogies, and hamburgers. Every dinner has a salad bar, and is served with a dessert. 

Snacks commonly include fruit, granola bars, muffins, crackers and cheese, dried chickpeas, and bits & bites. 

All food served is nut-aware and we do not supply any food with traces of peanuts or tree nuts within our kitchen. We are able to accomodate most dietary needs including vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, and allegren specific diets. We are able to provide and cook halal and kosher products, though our kitchen is not certified as either halal or kosher. 

Morning Activity Periods

Activities include: archery, arts and crafts, drama, land sports, nature skills, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, swimming and windsurfing.

Afternoon Interest Choices

Activities consist of special events planned by counsellors. Capitalizing on our staff’s unique talents, a variety of different activities from Harlem Globetrotters basketball and Seaweed Monster swimming, to Dance Pack, Robin Hood archery and the relaxing and low-key Hunting for Four-Leaved Clovers.

Longer “Double Interest Choices,” offered usually once per session, focus on inclusion and group activities that might require a longer period of time including day hikes to our wetlands, trips to Sisters Island on our lake, and dance clubs

Activities include the climbing wall, high ropes, and initiative tasks. The oldest cabin groups (typically ages 13-14) will be scheduled in for an opportunity to experience our Adventure Program.

Younger campers may also be given an opportunity to sign up for and participate in adventure activities during afternoon interest choice periods.

Each day is a special day at Camp Kawartha, and our staff are always working hard to provide the fun and excitement that they remember as campers. With that in mind, special events such as night hikes and high ropes are integrated into the cabin schedule to build on the excitement of the day and on one’s camp experience.

Each week, we break from the usual routine and do something completely different. It can be a backwards day, a camp-wide relay, or a carnival. Favourites include Campstock, where we invite our talented staff to perform on a main stage as campers travel to rotations from face-painting to mini-competitions, and EcoChallange, where campers must compete in an environmentally themed relay race across our 180-acre range. There’s always a great spirit and energy to these events.

The creative energy of our staff is channeled every evening into our awesome camp-wide programs. It all starts with a campfire the first evening and builds each night to include new innovate programs and old traditional favourites such as the talent show and Zing Tong! From dressing up as zany characters with phobias to collecting clues against the clock, staff and campers join together for some of the most memorable moments of the session.

Each day ends in the cabin with a “check-in” – a chance for campers to reflect on the day. Our traditional “rose and thorn” check-in provides campers with an opportunity to share with their cabin-mates the highlights of their day and re-live the excitement of camp. As the session progresses, creative check-ins allow campers to learn from their experiences, both individually and as a group.

Lights Out

Younger campers (8-12) have their lights out by 9:30pm and our older campers have lights out by 10:00pm