Brown Ledge Camp

Vermont, United States

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Gender

All girls

Stay

Overnight camp

Ages

10 - 17 yrs

Staff to Camper

About our camp

Enthusiasm and freedom lie at the heart of everything they do at Brown Ledge Camp, a residential camp for girls ages 10-17. The camp, founded back in 1927 by Brown Ledge, is located in Northern Vermont, at the Lake Champlain – eight miles away from Vermont’s largest city Burlington. This provides an important benefit of being close to a large hospital and medical school. In four or eight weeks, girls have the chance to open the doors to self-discovery and self-realization. Each cabin houses 4-5 girls. Counselors do not live with girls in the cabins, but they share evening duties and live nearby to provide assistance and supervision as needed. In the large dining hall everything is designed for family-style gatherings. Girls are served well-balanced meals, and the camp staff has also taken care of specific diet needs.

Our programs

Freedom of Choice implies that activities run throughout each day, and campers can join the events without any scheduling or a sign-up – anytime they want. The only requirement is to stick to the chosen activity for the next five days. During each activity, girls are guided by counselors and make sure provided experience matches girls’ skills level and learning pace. Activities this camp offers include: horseback riding, watersports (including sailing, windsurfing, swimming, diving, waterskiing, wakeboarding, kayaking and canoeing), tennis, archery and riflery, arts and crafts (drawing, enameling, puppeteering, sewing), theater arts, to name a few.

Activities

23+ activities to choose from - here are some highlights:

Archery

Drama theatre

Drawing

Horseback riding

Kayaking

Musical theatre

Session overview

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Where our camp is located

Colchester, Vermont, United States

71 Brown Ledge RdColchester, Vermont, United States

Field Guide

Summer camp in Vermont

A field guide to what a camp summer looks like in Vermont: the forms it takes, how the landscape and climate shape it, and what it asks of a family.

Field notes:

Read the Vermont guide

Weather in Vermont

Plan a Vermont camp summer for warm, sometimes humid afternoons and nights cool enough to want a sweatshirt, so layers earn their space in the duffel. Bug season is real, worst as the warm weather comes in and easing after. The lakes and ponds stay cold enough that swimming is usually short and bracing, and afternoon thunderstorms are a normal part of the mountain day. Mornings can start in valley fog, and the light holds long into the evening before the season turns quickly at its close.

Typical camp season June to August. Daytime highs 78 to 82°F (26 to 28°C), overnight lows 57 to 62°F (14 to 17°C).

Getting there in Vermont

Most families fly into Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport (BTV), up in the northwest of the state beside Lake Champlain and Vermont's main gateway. Because BTV sits at the far northern end, families headed for camps in the south and southeast often use out-of-state hubs instead, among them Manchester in New Hampshire (MHT), Albany in New York (ALB), the Hartford area (BDL), and Boston (BOS). Which one is closer depends entirely on where in the state your camp actually is.

From any of them the pattern holds: interstate for the long haul, then a winding two-lane state road, then, for many hill and farm camps, a final stretch of narrow, often unpaved town road with dust behind the car. Lakeside and northern camps can be a short drive from Burlington; central and southern ones are a good deal farther on. Town, college, waterfront, and ski-mountain day camps invert all of this, since you are driving from where you already are. For wilderness and expedition programs, the road ends at the camp and contact narrows once a trip heads into the mountains. Anything to do with pickups, shuttles, or timing is worth confirming directly with the camp.

The Parent Side Quest in Vermont

The shape of your own summer depends on which Vermont you have chosen. Leave a child for weeks at a long-stay camp down the back roads and you get a genuine absence and a slow information loop, letters and a set contact rhythm and a visiting day in the middle, while the pretty towns you pass through are Vermont's ordinary tourism rather than anything the camp arranges for you. Send a child to a day program in town and there is no waiting to do at all, only the daily rhythm of drop-off and pickup.

Either way, the parent's experience of camp is its own thing, distinct from the child's and worth understanding on its own terms. The Parent Side Quest is the part of the Field Guide about exactly that.

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