Best Maine Summer Camps for Girls

When choosing a Maine summer camp for girls, you should find a camp that suits your child's interests. Camps generally focus on personal development, outdoor activities, the arts, sports, or may be 'all-around' camps that offer a variety of activities with a diverse group of campers. Summer camp activities include climbing to the top of a mountain, playing team sports, learning to windsurf, and learning how to build a solar-powered oven. These summer camps are 'girls only'. Some also offer boys camping sessions and co-ed camping sessions, as well as special trips and excursions. If you plan to send your daughter to a summer camp in Maine, be sure to enroll as soon as possible because many summer camps are fully booked by mid-May.

Best Maine Summer Camps for Girls
Camp Kippewa Summer Camp for Girls is an excellent 'all-around' summer camp. Just south of Augusta, this camp offers horseback riding, water sports, land sports, dance, theater, and arts. Actors and singers perform two stage shows each season and dancers can perform in the annual dance show. Ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and modern dance instruction and choreography are taught at the camp. Watersports include swimming, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, waterskiing, and windsurfing. Sports and fitness activities include gymnastics, archery, field hockey, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball, and frisbee. Arts include painting, drawing, photography, jewelry making, silk-screening, leather crafting, woodworking, pottery, knitting, and stained glass creation. Four week sessions run from June 25 to July 19 and July 22 to Aug 15. The cost is $5650, including bus transportation from major New England cities. Enroll online or by mail. Call 1-800-KIPPEWA (547-7392) for more information about Camp Kippewa.