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Children in preschool through 8th grade will get in touch with nature this summer while participating in one of the many Summer Day Camps offered by Lake Metroparks.
Offerings range from nature, farming, fishing, wildlife, boating, and more and vary in length from one day to five-days.
Summer day camps offer fun and educational activities, and field trips and are led by qualified staff at various park locations.
Explore the complete listing of Lake Metroparks summer day camp
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Registration for Summer Day Camps begins
March 1 for Lake County residents.
Open registration begins March 8.
- Call
440-358-7275 or
1-800-669-9226
8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday - Friday.
- Farmpark members must call to receive their discount.
- In person registration:
Lake Metroparks Registration Office
11189 Spear Road in Concord Township
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- NEW! Farming Fun with Mom (age 3 with parent or guardian) - Choose a farm adventure, and experience life on the farm through a three-year-old's eyes. Milk a cow, tend a garden, groom a mini horse, make bread, or ice cream. Join us down on the farm! This fun interactive camp is designed for a parent or guardian with children who are three years of age by June 1.
This is a four-hour one day camp.
- Farmer's Helper (ages 4 & 5) -
Help our farmers feed animals, tend gardens, and make bread. Children play games, make crafts, and ride a pony. On Friday we will prepare a salad and Stone Soup lunch for families.
- Once Upon a Farm (ages 4 & 5) - Youngsters discover horses, cows, pigs, sheep, tractors, and farm life. Stories, crafts, snacks, and a Family Ice Cream Social on Friday are part of the fun.
- Farmcamp (ages 6 - 8) -Milk a cow, make brownies, groom a horse and create a country fair for your family. Explore animals, plants and farm products; experience farm chores and farm life. Visit a real working farm.
Please dress for the weather.
- New! Ohio Country Farmers (ages 8 - 12) - Experience life on the farm before electricity. Play period games and make classic crafts. Roll up your sleeves and try some farm chores. Finish the week with a trip to Century Village.
- Dairy Delight (ages 8 - 12) - Spend four days as a dairy farmer when you take care of dairy cows and calves, make home made ice cream, butter and cheese.
Campers even visit a dairy farm and the Environmental Learning Center.
- Leaves and Livestock (ages 8 - 12) - Tend to farm animals, see how farmers grow and discover hydroponics. Visit Lake Metroparks Environmental Learning Center and the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and investigate native plants and wild animals.
- Renewable Energy Camp (ages 8 - 12) - Build a solar powered toy, make a wind turbine, go on a “green building” scavenger hunt, and discover the science of renewable resources.This is a four-day camp.
- It’s a Wooly World (ages 8 – 12) - Shear sheep, spin yarn, weave a wooly creation and tend sheep, goats and rabbits that provide the fiber used to make clothes. Continue your adventure at a alpaca farm.
- Horse’n Around Camp (ages 9 - 12) - Experience the world of horses, learn to groom, lunge, and drive our show wagon. Try a variety of riding disciplines led by experienced horsemen. Visit horse farms and explore equine careers.
- Horse Sense (ages 9 - 12) -
Dream of driving a draft horse, riding English and Western style, or owning a horse? Experience horsemanship and a trip to a horse farm. Campers ride horses led by experienced horseman.
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- The First Discoveries camp (Ages 4 & 5) - This camp provides an excellent opportunity for a young child’s first camp experience through hands-on exploration of the natural world around us. Activities will engage campers to help them learn about the 3 R’s of the environment – reverence, respect, and responsibility through hiking, games, crafts, and more.
- Mini Summer Day Camps (ages 4-6, 7-11 & 12-14) - Mini-camps that are only one or two days in length, yet offer a full array of activities, such as backcountry skills, rock climbing, fishing, science, art, archery, and discovering plants and farm animals.
- New! Jr. Wild Encounters Camp (Ages 6 & 7) -
Attention Young Animal Lovers! Come to one, two or three sessions of Jr. Wild Encounters. Included in each day are up-close animal encounters, wildlife and nature activities, hiking, and more!
- Lake Metroparks Adventure Camps! (ages 7 to 11 & 11-14) – Five camp offerings include Ultimate Adventureswhere campers experience the thrill of canoeing, rock climbing, kayaking, snorkeling (conditions permitting), archery and more. In Fish Expedition Adventure, campers will land some new knowledge about fish, fish rivers and ponds, use spin and fly rods and tie flies and end the week on a Lake Erie Charter!
- Fish Expedition Adventure Camp (ages 7-11) – At this camp campers will land some new knowledge about fish, fish at a variety of locations, use spin and fly rods and tie flies. This camp also includes an end of the week trip on a Lake Erie Charter (weather permitting.)
- Camp Luckystone (ages 7 - 11) - A combination of nature and recreation and include two to three field trips each week.
Series includes Rocks Rock!, Treasure Hunters, Skate and Score, and new this year Wacky World of Water.
- Wild Encounters Camp (Ages 8 - 11) - Join us for a week at the Wildlife Center for live animal encounters, & peeks behind the scenes. Become an animal trainer and try wild activities! End the week with a visit to Cleveland Metroparks Zoo/Rainforest.
- Scientific Exploration Adventures (ages 11-14) A camp designed for scientific exploration and observation. Learn about the natural systems of water, energy, and geology as we observe, investigate, and experiment. This is a four-day camp.
- New! Wild Adventures Camp (ages 12 & 13) Come to one, two or three sessions of Wild adventures. Included in each day are up-close animal encounters at the Wildlife Center, hands-on wildlife and nature activities, hiking and much more! Each session will have a different theme. Extended care is available.
- New! XTreme Wild Encounters (ages 12 - 16) Have you ever been interested in a career with wild animals? Join us for an extreme hands on experience in learning what it takes to work in the animal field! Experience animal handling, animal releases, case studies, anatomy and much more!
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- Beach Adventure Camp (ages 5 - 10) - If your camper enjoys being in
the water, set sail for the beach at Fairport Harbor Lakefront Park this summer. Activities range from swimming and kayaking to kite flying, hiking, games, nature, crafts and more.
This camp is available by the day, or by the week.
- Boat Camp (ages 12 - 16) - Learn the world of boating. An Ohio Boaters Education Certification Course is given first to educate the campers on the rules and regulation of boating. After dry land training, they will learn how to canoe, kayak, sail, and drive a powerboat. This is a 5-day camp with course work and hands-on in the water using canoes, kayaks, sail boats, power boats and pwc (jet skis).
- Sailing camp (ages 12 - 16) - Offers youth the chance to learn the ins and outs of handling small sailboats. They will handle a variety of small sailboats in the protected harbor. Campers should expect to be on and in the water.
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