Off-Site Trips & Travel

Campers come to Chestnut Lake to be together and to enjoy the extensive activities that are offered on our amazing facility, but we enjoy the opportunity to weave off-site trips and travel into the program in a thoughtful and strategic way to enhance the camp program and to allow for additional growth and an aspirational arc to their long-term involvement with Chestnut Lake.

Each Division (gender and grade group) will enjoy one off-site trip per 4-week or 3-week session, while our 7-week campers will have additional out-of-camp experiences during the brief “Intersession”. Trips change every summer or every other summer, making sure that campers can always look forward to something new. Through rising 7th grade, campers will have a daytime experience that will often be to a waterpark or amusement park (or something similar), including places such as CamelBeach, Costa’s, Knoebels, Hershey Park, or Dorney Park. Rising 8th-graders will have an oversight experience for the first time, while our 9th/10/11th grade programs will have multi-day trips (3-6 days) to such places as Boston, Washington, DC, the Jersey Shore, Colorado, or California (trips differ in destination, mode of transport, and length of time for each grade group from summer to summer). Families will be charged a Trip Fee that varies with Division and includes limited spending money for their campers to use during trips.