Summer Camp
Where Do I Start? The First-Time Overnight Summer Camper: A Physical and Emotional Guide
Sending your child on his or her first overnight camp experience can be an emotional roller-coaster. While deep down you know your child will have the time of his or her life, anxiety can be felt on both sides. For your child, this could be the first time away from...
Start Your Sleep-Away Summer Camp Search Today
Humans are procrastinators by nature. After all, it’s easier to put off the task at hand than deal with it in the moment. How many times have you said to yourself, “I’ll tackle that tomorrow,” only to put it off again and again. Don’t do that with your kid’s summer...
3 Lifetime Lessons Your Child Will Learn from Muskoka Woods Summer Camp
Muskoka Woods summer camp is more than just a fun experience. The camp’s mission is to not only give your children the best summer of their life, but to encourage your children to reflect on what they have accomplished at camp and shape them into confident, inspiring...
When no one believes in you, there’s Muskoka Woods
If you’ve experienced Summer Camp at Muskoka Woods, you know the significant impact it can have on you. Now take that same experience and give it to students who the system has all but given up on. Rob Conroy is a high school gym teacher. Several years ago the board...
Meet a Muskoka Woods Staff Member: Max Lippa
Max Lippa was the Venture Section Head for summer 2020 at Muskoka Woods. He is currently in the last semester of a biodiversity and conservation biology degree at the University of Toronto, and also serves as a youth leader at The Meeting House in Toronto. Max plans...
Why Working at Muskoka Woods Looks Great on a College Resume
You might think camp is just about fun and games (which it is) but the experience can also give guests a leg up on future employment. Even if you didn’t work at a camp, but maybe spent a week or two there over the summer, it says something about your personality and...
Where Do I Start? The First-Time Overnight Summer Camper: A Physical and Emotional Guide
Sending your child on his or her first overnight camp experience can be an emotional roller-coaster. While deep down you know your child will have the time of his or her life, anxiety can be felt on both sides. For your child, this could be the first time away from...
How Muskoka Woods Summer Camp Can Help Your Child Develop Confidence
You’re a 12-year-old girl. Your parents signed you up for a week at Muskoka Woods and you don’t know anyone. You’ve just walked into your cabin for the first time and you’re staring at all new faces as you meet your cabin mates. You’re a nine-year-old boy. Sure,...
Beyond the Woods podcast with John McAuley
What does a mayor, Cirque du Soleil performer and a hospital administrator have in common? All are Muskoka Woods alumni and today they are telling their stories of the lasting impact summer camp has on their lives. In early 2019, Muskoka Woods President and CEO John...
Tips for Coping with Anxiety While Your Child Is Away at Summer Camp
I remember when my son went away for the first time. Sure, he had gone for sleepovers at his best friend’s or at grandma’s or my sister’s, but this was his first time away away. It was a school trip and he was in an area I had never been, with people I didn’t know,...