Summer Camp Details

2024 Summer Climbing Day Camps (Ages 8-12)

$550 | Rockville, MD | Ages 8-12 | No experience required!

Our summer day camp is a unique chance for kids 8-12 to experience the fun and freedom of climbing, rappelling, and adventuring outdoors at our local National Parks! Our day camp programs are designed to give kids confidence outside, build climbing skills and kinesthetic awareness, and discover self-challenge and achievement through games, climbing time, and other outdoor activities facilitated by experienced, certified youth program teachers and guides.

Camps run for 5 days 9-4:00 M-F; drop-off and pickup is at Croydon Creek Nature Center in Rockville, MD each day.

  • All summer camps are staffed with certified and first-aid trained instructors

  • No experience is required but campers should come ready to spend a week of days outdoors in active play

  • Campers will visit crags at Carderock and Great Falls, MD and/or Great Falls, VA (and may climb in local gyms on rain days)

  • Camps will also include hiking, nature study, found material art, active games, and other opportunities for kids to be kids outdoors in a guided environment

2024 sessions

  • July 22-26

Interested in camps for teenagers 13-17? Check out our signature teen road trips!

  • You’ll learn:

    • Outdoor rock climbing instruction and coaching with certified instructors

    • Safety skills instruction and awareness

    • Rappelling (while backed up by an instructor)

    • Climbing and adventure games

    • Outdoor skills and nature study

    • Teamwork, communication, and partnership skills

  • What’s included:

    • Personal gear as required

    • All class gear

    • Professional facilitation by certified and first-aid trained guides

    • Group first aid kit

    What’s NOT included:

    • Transportation to/from drop off point

    • Lunch for campers