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Camp season
May 24 to Aug 7, 2026
Program profile
11 sessions · Overnight camp
Rates & stays
Planning estimatePer-day tuition
N/A
Per-night tuition
From $220 / 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 Missouri guide
Missouri runs hot and humid through the camp months. The heat builds across the afternoon and the nights stay warm and close, so an outdoor day is planned around water and shade as much as around activity. Storms can climb quickly, particularly in early summer, and then clear off. The lakes warm enough to swim all season, while some spring-fed Ozark streams keep an edge of cool. Sun, humidity, and the state's well-known ticks and chiggers are the things a packing list here quietly plans around.
Average at camp time
June
86°high
67°low
July
90°high
71°low
August
88°high
69°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.
Most families fly into one of the state's major airports, St. Louis Lambert International (STL) on the eastern side or Kansas City International (MCI) on the western, and drive from there. STL is the larger and busier of the pair. Almost all camp travel past the airport is by car; Missouri is road-served throughout, with no fly-in-only camp country.
For the overnight camps, the shape of the drive is metro to hill country: an interstate southwest toward the Ozarks or across the state between the metros, then a U.S. highway, then a narrowing onto the state's lettered back routes as you near a lake cove or a camp gate. Plan for that last stretch to slow right down. The metro day camps invert this, sitting where families already are. Any shuttle or pickup arrangement is a detail to confirm directly with the camp rather than to assume.