Camp Schedule For 11-13 Year Olds
Camps Colby, DeBruce, Pack Forest and Rushford
Operating Hours
Check-in for camp is between 3:00 PM and 4:30 PM on Sunday afternoon.
Camper pickup and closing ceremony is at 4:30 PM on Friday.
Camp Policies
Campers cannot stay over Friday/Saturday at camp.
Campers must be picked up by an authorized parent/guardian or representative, staff cannot place campers on public transportation.
Example Camp Schedules
All schedules are subject to change and provided only as examples of a typical week at camp.
Click here to view an example schedule for ages 14-17
Example Schedule 1
| Time | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 AM | Morning Optionals | Morning Optionals | Morning Optionals | Trip returns | Morning Optionals | |
| 8:00 | Cabins | Cabins | Cabins | Cabins | ||
| 8:30 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | |
| 9:00 | ||||||
| 9:30 | Group Dynamics | Hunter safety OR field trips | Optional Adventures 2 | Cabin time | Optionals | |
| 10:00 | ||||||
| 10:30 | Environmental lesson | |||||
| 11:00 | I FISH NY | |||||
| 11:30 | Swim test | All camp game | ||||
| 12:00 PM | Staff meeting | |||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 | ||||||
| 1:30 | Cabin time | Cabin time | Cabin time | Cabin time - Pack up! | ||
| 2:00 | Optional Adventures 3 | All Camp Game | ||||
| 2:30 | Optional Adventures 1 | All camp game | ||||
| 3:00 | Registration | |||||
| 3:30 | ||||||
| 4:00 | Packing | All camp activity | Camp activity | |||
| 4:30 | Camp tour | Camp Game | Return | Closing ceremony | ||
| 5:00 | Rules | Cabin time | Overnight trips | Skit practice | ||
| 5:30 | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner | |||
| 6:00 | Dinner | |||||
| 6:30 | Guest speaker | Guest speaker | Environmental lesson | |||
| 7:00 | Swim skit | Cabin time | Cabin time | All Camp activity | ||
| 7:30 | Cabin time/ games | Outdoor skills | Olympics | |||
| 8:00 | Cabin time | |||||
| 8:30 | Opening campfire | Closing campfire | ||||
| 9:00 | Trip packing | |||||
| 9:30 | Survival | Ice cream | ||||
| 10:00 | Songs/ story time | Songs/ story time | ||||
| 10:30 | Lights Out | Lights out | Lights out | Lights out |
Example Schedule 2
| Time | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 AM | Morning optional | Morning optional | Trips continue | Morning optional | Morning optional | |
| 7:30 | Circle up | Circle up | Circle up | Circle up | ||
| 8:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 | ||||||
| 9:00 | Group Dynamics | Lesson 2 | Optional Adventures or Hunter Safety | Lesson 3 | ||
| 9:30 | ||||||
| 10:00 | ||||||
| 10:30 | ||||||
| 11:00 | All camp game | Optional Adventures 2 | All camp game | |||
| 11:30 | ||||||
| 12:00 PM | Staff meeting | Lunch | Lunch | |||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||||
| 1:00 | Cabin time | Packing | ||||
| 1:30 | Lesson 1 | Environmental lessons | ||||
| 2:00 | Overnight trips | |||||
| 2:30 | ||||||
| 3:00 | Registration | |||||
| 3:30 | Optional Adventures 1 | Clean up and pack | ||||
| 4:00 | Cabin time | |||||
| 4:30 | Closing ceremony | |||||
| 5:00 | Rules | Dinner | Dinner | |||
| 5:30 | Hazards | Dinner | ||||
| 6:00 | Circle up | Outdoor skills | Speaker | |||
| 6:30 | Dinner | Skit practice | ||||
| 7:00 | Camp game | |||||
| 7:30 | Cabin time | All camp rec | Closing campfire | |||
| 8:00 | Circle up | Night games | ||||
| 8:30 | Opening campfire | All camp game | ||||
| 9:00 | ||||||
| 9:30 | Songs | Songs | ||||
| 10:00 | Lights out | Lights out | Lights out | Lights out |
Guest speakers might include: ECOs with K9 units, Forest rangers, local rehabilitators, or other educators and DEC staff
Morning optionals might include: fishing, polar bear swim, birding, or other activities
Sample Optional Adventure Activities:
- Fly Tying
- Fishing
- Shelter Building
- Archery
- Boating or canoeing
- Tracking
- Nature Art or journaling
- Tye dying
- Hiking
- Fly Fishing
- Orienteering
- Map Making
- Birding
- Herping (searching for reptiles and amphibians)
- Swimming
- Visit to local sites such as bogs, mountains, state parks, beaches, or other locations
Sample environmental lessons:
Field lesson: collect insects with nets and discuss field habitats
Aquatics lesson: Use dip or kick nets to collect macroinvertebrates and discuss water quality
Forest lesson: Investigate tree diversity, the importance of soils, and forestry
General ecology: Habitats, human impacts, energy cycles
