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Camp season
May 31 to Jul 24, 2027
Program profile
44 sessions · Day & overnight
Rates & stays
Planning estimatePer-day tuition
From $60 / USD
Per-night tuition
From $80 / USD
Program-specific tuition options
This camp may offer session-specific tuition structures, including variations by length of stay, enrolment timing, or payment schedule. Families should confirm details directly with the provider.
From the Mississippi guide
Plan for heat and humidity as the baseline, not the exception. Summer days run hot and thick, afternoon thunderstorms build and break and move off, and the air closes back in behind them. Lake and Gulf water sit warm enough that swimming is the comfortable heart of the day, and the biting insects arrive with dusk. Late in the season the coast watches the tropics. The figures below are air temperatures for a representative central-state station; the coast and the shaded interior read a little differently, but the shape of the season holds statewide.
Average at camp time
June
91°high
69°low
July
93°high
72°low
August
93°high
71°low
Temperature figures are drawn from NOAA/NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Conditions vary within a state by region, elevation, and distance from the coast, so interior and higher areas generally run cooler than coastal or low-lying ones. Treat these as a general guide, not a forecast for any specific camp.
The central gateway is Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport (JAN), which sits closest to the capital-area day camps and the belt of piney-woods overnight camps. For the Gulf Coast camps, Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport (GPT) is the natural door. And for the northern part of the state, up around the hill country and college towns, many families find Memphis International Airport (MEM) the easier reach across the line.
Most camp here is reached by car rather than by plane. From the airport it tends to be an interstate run and then a turn onto a back road into a small town or a lake property; the Natchez Trace Parkway threads much of the central camp country if you would rather take the slow, tree-lined way. Day camps invert the whole question, since they sit inside the cities where families already live. Whatever the form, treat pickup, drop-off, and any transport as details to settle directly with the camp rather than assume.