Camp Birchmont
Highlights
- Excellent Sports and Swim Instruction
- Caring Staff and Safe Environment
- Pierce Family Owned Since 1951
- Renowned Trip Program
Overview
BIRCHMONT is a traditional coed camp experience located in the beautiful Lakes Region of NH! In addition to our highly diversified camp curriculum including all the traditional court and field sports, creative and performing arts, high and low challenge courses and horseback riding. We emphasize the lifelong pursuits of tennis and waterfront activities. Tennis takes place on 12 all-weather tennis courts that are lit for night play, with two USPTA pros heading up a staff of 12 to challenge each player at his or her own level. Our mile of shorefront on Lake Wentworth, one of New England’s most pristine and private lakes, with waterfront staff of 20 provides a perfect setting for Red Cross swim instruction, waterskiing, wake boarding, sailing, canoeing, paddle boarding, kayaking, fishing, and more. Birchmont is owned and operated by one of the oldest camping families in America. Come join us for summers full of fun, friendships and personal growth!
7-16 yo
From June to August
2 weeks
From $6,550
English
Max 300 campers
Co-Education
Shared
Activities
Birchmont has an extremely diversified curriculum, from performing arts to a Ninja obstacle course with all of the traditional court and field sports that you can imagine! Our choice-oriented program is designed to meet each child at their own skill level and grow from there. We have a full complement of “special activities” to include DJ Socials, inflatable rides, a western hoe down, magicians, visiting zoo and luaus at the lake just to name a few.
We host and participate in athletic tournaments and inter-camp competitions throughout the Lakes Region. Tennis, soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, and swim meets are all represented for campers who choose to do so.
Every age camper will have the opportunity to get out of camp and explore the region through our highly renowned trip program. Our trip program grows along with the age of our campers starting with on grounds sleep outs and our older campers go white water rafting, travel to Boston and Quebec. Our campers will experience the best of New England.
Schedule
We have 50 unique camp days, no 2 are the same.
We have 12 groups, 6 girls’ groups and 6 boys’ groups. Our typical Monday through Saturday program day begins at reveille at 7:45 AM and concludes after evening activity at 8:00 PM. We also have many “Late Night” activities for our older campers as well. Schedules are produced weekly and based on camper input. This daily “sample” schedule below does not include Trip Days, Inter-Camp Competitions or the many camp-wide Special Events that take place throughout the summer.
A Typical Day:
7:45AM – 8:15am Reveille & Line-Up
8:15AM – 9am Breakfast
Period 1: 9 – 10am Notches (Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, Woodworking or Nature)
Period 2: 10 – 11am Tennis
Period 3: 11 – 12noon Instructional Swim (or Top Fit for campers 13 & older)
12:15 – 1PM Lunch
1 – 2pm Rest Hour OR Free Play
Period 4: 2 – 3pm Soccer OR Performing Arts
3 – 3:30pm Afternoon Break & Snack
Period 5: 3:30 – 4:30pm Free Swim
Period 6: 4:30 – 5:30pm Ropes OR Basketball
5:30 – 6pm Mail Call
6 – 7PM Dinner
Evening Activity: 7 – 8pm Clubs (A choice of 20+ co-ed, counselor run hobby activities to
include, fishing, kayaking gardening, waterskiing to name a few…)
Late Night: 8 – 9pm Tennis or basketball under the lights, campfires and s’mores,
movies in the Lodge or use of the Hilltop Gym.
Accommodation & facilities
Our accommodations are the best in the business. We maintain a rustic but excellently maintained state of the art facilities. Be it the dinning rooms, camper cabins or program facilities, Birchmont is known industry wide for beautiful accommodations! Birchmont is situated on 300 acres with a mile of private waterfront on Lake Wentworth, a Class A with a natural sand bottom.
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Q&A
No Fee through December 1st. $1000 between December 1st – February 1st. $2000 between February 1st – April 1st. No refunds after April 1st.
Yes, Birchmont’s administrative team represents more than 200 years of camp experience.
All staff must be at least 18 years of age, provide three references, undergo extensive background checks, show a proficiency in the job they are applying for and successfully complete a personal interview.
Each summer our staff complete a 10-day orientation. Prior to camp they must familiarize themselves with our staff handbook, philosophy and traditions. Weekly we conduct staff meetings to discuss the upcoming calendar and review any areas of camp that needs to be addressed for improvement. Each staff member has four ongoing and individual evaluations for real time feedback.
We intentionally discuss the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion and practice it throughout the camp sason.
Birchmont is a proud member of the American Camp Association and maintains all of the “Best Practices” know in organised camping.
Campers are not permitted to have mobile phones or electronics that connect to the internet.
I just wanted to take a moment of your time to say hello and thank you for making Luke’s summer so successful. He had a tremendous time at Birchmont and I know he was sad to leave such a blissful haven. I truly recognize all the small and large “things” that you all do behind the scenes to make it all work. Lastly, please thank the camp photographer. Her pictures were a huge high for me each day and helped me get through 2 sessions.
All three of my kids are very much looking forward to see everyone again. I am very happy to have them in your hands during the summer. It is because of Camp Birchmont that they all have a very positive attitude towards the U.S., their people and their values.
Thank you so much for this and for the wise words! Please send all of camp leadership our profound gratitude for giving our daughter and all the kids at Birchmont the joy and freedom of being kids this summer after a really really long 16 months. We miss Noelle so much but could not be more grateful for the ability to send her to a place as special as Birchmont, where she is with special friends in a very special place.
We appreciate all you do, especially this summer, to let kids be kids and make memories and friendships of a lifetime.