Pok-O-MacCready

Life at Pok-O is built around classes campers choose for themselves and then stick with long enough to genuinely improve. In the four-week session the days follow an A-Day/B-Day rotation so a camper can sample a wide spread of class areas, while the three-week session asks campers to pick four main activities to focus on, and those who stay the full seven weeks keep refining their skills in each area all summer. Wilderness trips run alongside the daily class schedule and are also chosen by the camper, so a child can decide when they are ready for a longer hike or an overnight across the lake. Threaded through all of it are the BIG Games, the all-camp events that stop the normal schedule entirely for capture-the-flag contests, scavenger hunts, Greek Games, the Clash of Titans in team colours, the Pok-O-Palooza music festival and the camp's own miniature county fair, complete with costumes, scripts and team loyalties handed down for decades. The whole programme is deliberately screen-free, with roughly three campers to every staff member, and the multi-week sessions give children the time to try something badly, learn from it, and come back to it.

Pok-O-MacCready has a variety of accomadations. Our youngest campers are housed in all-season, dormitory-style buildings with multiple rooms and ensuite bathrooms. Each room houses 6-8 campers and a counselor. Older campers move to rustic, stand-alone cabins on the edge of the forest or overlooking the lake. These cabins house 6-8 campers and a counselor. Campers walk from their cabins to a modern, shared restroom. Counselors-in-Training (15 and 16 year olds) move back into shared accomadations with ensuite restrooms.