Summer Family Camp
Bring the whole family and friends for this unique one week adventure. Include grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, best friends. Together you will rekindle, relax, rejuvenate and experience the exciting times that family camp has brought to week over three thousand families since 1969.
Arrive Sunday for lunch. Spend 7 great days together and depart the following Saturday after lunch.
More than just a great family vacation, Wanakita Family Camp is where you can renew and grow relationships with family and friends. It is where you come to camp (kids and parents together) and experience special time as a family.
Facilities
Family camp has its own distinct site on 'Wanakita East,' separate from the Resident and Day Camps operating on the West side of Wanakita since 1953. What to expect:
- A family dining hall with fantastic food that will satisfy the needs of kids, adults and all those with special dietary needs
- Rustic, comfortable, wood cabins for each family with bunkbeds or single beds, mattresses, shelving units, electricity
- Centralized washhouses with showers
- An amazing sand waterfront with docks for a variety of waterfront activities; fields, courts and wooded areas for all land-based programs
- Access to fire pits and of course beautiful Koshlong Lake in the Highlands of Haliburton
Programs
Programs are designed to allow opportunities to participate on a recreational, instructional or social basis. Our programs are designed to be enjoyed with the whole family as well as programs specific to a particular age group (ie. ages 3-5, 6-9, 10-12, 13-16 and adult). There is opportunity to do it all or just lay back and catch the summer sun.
- Sailing
- Canoeing
- Kayaking
- Boardsailing
- Mountain Biking
- Swimming
- High and Low Ropes Adventure Courses
- Archery
- Performing Arts
- Outdoor Environmental and Wilderness Activities including:
- Hiking trips to a beaver dam and falls
- Star and night sky discovery
- Outdoor cooking and living
- Animal survival game
- Ecological discovery
- Soccer
- Basketball
- Football
- Ultimate Frisbee
- Court and Field Sports
- Horseshoe Tournaments
- Opening and Closing Campfires
- Evening Entertainment Extravaganza's
- Kids and Adult Crafts
- Kangaroo Court
- Boat tours of the lake and much, much more.
Tuck Shop
Wanakita operates a year-round camp store (Tuck Shop) that sells a variety of items. We have everything from Wanakita custom clothing, souvenirs, toiletries, munchies, pop/juice to other staples depending on the season, such as sunscreen, mosquito repellent, batteries, film, seed beads, etc... Keep this in mind when planning for your experience.
Staff
As with all Wanakita programs, we provide qualified, certified, fun and caring staff who work hard to meet the needs of all who attend Wanakita. We do everything to make this a very special time for your family to grow, develop and have fun.
Typical Day
| 7:30 am | Wake-up, Polar Bear Swim option |
| 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:45 - 12:00 pm | 2 Program blocks |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 2:00 - 4:30 pm | 2 Program blocks |
| 5:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 - 8:00 pm | 1 Program block (Snack after 8:00 pm) |
Registration
Before October 1st, returning families from the previous summer have the opportunity to secure their week. After this time, new families or returning families that did not attend the previous summer, will be accepted on a first come first serve basis. General registration opens the first Monday in November. Please see the registration section for available weeks and accommodation information. We encourage you to enroll as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Upon registration, other information regarding what to bring, policies on pets, alcohol, smoking, program themes etc. will be mailed to you.
