Boys camps in New Hampshire
Many of New Hampshire's boys camps have run for more than a century. Programs lean towards the water, from water-skiing and sailing to canoeing and fishing, and several run backpacking trips. Compare 12 boys camps in New Hampshire: nearly all are overnight camps.
At a glance
Tuition
Overnight camps
- Typical per night
- $240 to $320 / USD
- Lowest per night
- $190 / USD
- 9 camps offer financial help
- 4 camps offer payment plans
From the 2027 sessions of 10 camps
Session lengths
Overnight camps, per session
1 week
6 camps
$1,400 to $2,000 / USD
2 weeks
5 camps
$2,500 to $3,800 / USD
3 to 4 weeks
Half summer · 7 camps
$6,400 to $8,400 / USD
6 to 8 weeks
Full summer · 6 camps
$11,800 to $12,800 / USD
5 camps offer both a half and a full summer
6
camps founded over 100 years ago
Browse New Hampshire camps
View all New Hampshire camps- Boys camps12 camps$240 to $320 / USDPer-night tuition
- Girls camps9 camps$330 to $410 / USDPer-night tuition
- Coed camps19 camps$210 to $360 / USDPer-night tuition
- Day camps5 camps
All 12 boys camps in New Hampshire
Brother and sister camps in New Hampshire
Boys and girls camps paired as brother and sister camps, both in New Hampshire.
Field Guide
Summer camp in New Hampshire
A field guide to what a camp summer looks like in New Hampshire: the forms it takes, how the landscape and climate shape it, and what it asks of a family.
Field notes
Weather in New Hampshire
Read the lake before you read the calendar. New Hampshire summers are warm rather than hot, with nights that cool off sharply, especially at elevation, and mountain weather that can swing from a clear morning to a cold, wet afternoon as storms build over the ridges. The water is the part that catches families off guard: the lakes are glacial and clear and genuinely cold, bracing early in the season and colder yet in the high ponds. Blackflies belong to late spring and the early weeks of summer, mosquitoes to the still edges, and the season itself is short, bright, and definite.
camp season (June-August (representative core camp season)) runs highs of 78-83°F (26-28°C) and lows of 54-59°F (12-15°C).
Getting there in New Hampshire
The in-state hub is Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT), in the populated south and closest to both the Lakes Region and the day-camp towns. Plenty of families flying in from farther away land instead at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), across the line in Massachusetts and a solid drive south of the lakes. From either, the shape is the same: a fast run north on the interstate, then a shift onto state highways toward the lakes and mountains, and finally the slow last miles on lake roads and dirt approaches.
For a lakeside camp, expect that highway-to-lake-road handover and a real final approach. For a mountain trip program, the road simply ends, the child heads in on foot, and contact closes for the length of the trip. For a day camp, there is barely any travel at all, since those sit in the southern towns where families already are. Camps often arrange airport pickup, but treat the details as something to confirm directly with the camp rather than assume.
The Parent Side Quest in New Hampshire
Your own experience of the summer shifts completely with the form you choose. A day camp barely changes the shape of your week; the handoff resets every evening and the loop of knowing where your child is never really breaks. A lakeside season is the opposite, weeks of distance and the particular quiet of letters and posted photos standing in for a voice. A mountain trip can take even that away for a spell, with the group off the grid entirely. Around the lakes there is a real visiting rhythm, though it borrows the lodging and meals of towns that were tourist towns long before they were camp towns.
That side of it, the waiting, the letters, the recalibrating of how close you need to be, is its own experience, and it does not belong to any single kind of camp. To understand that part on its own terms, the [Parent Side Quest](/field-guide/parent-side-quest) is the piece of the Field Guide devoted to exactly that.
Questions about boys camps in New Hampshire
For 2027, tuition at boys camps in New Hampshire generally runs $240 to $320 USD a night, from about $190 USD. Tuition for a half summer (3 to 4 weeks) is typically $6,400 to $8,400 USD and for a full summer (6 to 8 weeks) is typically $11,800 to $12,800 USD. Based on the 2027 sessions of 10 camps. These are planning estimates; each camp confirms its own tuition.
9 camps offer financial help, and 4 offer payment plans. Each camp sets its own terms, so ask the camp directly.
6 camps offer 1 week, 5 camps offer 2 weeks, 7 camps offer 3 to 4 weeks (a half summer) and 6 camps offer 6 to 8 weeks (a full summer). 5 offer both a half and a full summer.
Most take campers from about 8 to 16.
2027 sessions run from late June to late August.