Pok-O-MacCready Camps
Highlights
- Independence and confidence
- Life-long friendships
- Nature-based and screen-free
- Ability to try new things
Overview
Grounded in a century of tradition, Pok-O-MacCready fosters personal growth for children by empowering them to achieve independence, create lifelong friendships, and develop a deep appreciation of the natural world in the Adirondacks and beyond.
Among the 40+ activities offered are: hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, rock climbing, kayaking, blacksmithing, mountain biking, sailing, sports, swimming, and creative arts. It's location in the Adirondack Park gives it access to hundreds of miles of trails and rivers for both day and overnight trips. Facilities available to every camper include an early 19th century working farm, an indoor rock climbing center, tennis and basketball courts, a street hockey complex, modern horse stables, ball fields, swimming and boating docks, and rustic cabins tucked into the fields and forest. A screen-free, nature-filled setting and small cabin groups promotes social growth, independence and conflict resolution.
6-16 yo
From June 28 to August 15, 2026
2 weeks
From $4,600
English
Max 210 campers
Co-Education
Shared
Activities
We operate under a challange-by-choice philosophy in which we give campers the information required to make their own selection of activities. After trying an activity, they have the option of switching to something different. The only mandatory activities are all-camp games and activities designed for specific age-groups. All-camp events include theme-based capture-the-flag, dodgeball, Broadway Musical Night, Swim and Boat Carnival, The Pok-O-Palooza Music and Folk Festival, camp-wide scavenger hunt and relay races, Greek Feast, and many more.
Class activities include:
Day Hikes and Rock-climbing trips
Overnight Hikes
Horseback Riding
Blacksmithing (ages 12 and up)
Archery
Pottery
Swimming
Sailing
Rock-Climbing
Fishing
Tennis
Volleyball
Street Hockey
Soccer
Basketball
Baseball
Ultimate Frisbee
Theater
Arts and Crafts
Mountain Biking
Forest Fun
Canoe
Homesteading (Gardening and Baking)
Kayak
Creative Writing
Disc Golf
Camp Craft
Academics
Tutoring as needed.
Accommodation & facilities
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.
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Q&A
Deposits are refundable until April 1st. Tuition is refundable until June 1st. All payments are refundable in case of a COVID-related cancellation.
All staff receive a nation-wide criminal background check, and multiple sex-offender databases are checked.
We are a screen free camp. Campers are not allowed to have phones and counselors cannot use phones with campers.
The greatest camp on earth! My brother went there in the 70s. I went there in the 80s. My sons went there in the 2010s. People talk about Pok-O spirit and it is real. The sense of community, caring, support and bonding is incredible, but the proof is in the unlimited fun everyone has there. Pok-O is in one of the most beautiful spots in the US, gives kids access to the best of the best in outdoor experience in the Adirondacks, and lets kids gain amazing confidence in themselves as they grow up and learn to be independent. My first counselor from 1981 still works there: a sign of the life-long hold it can have on people, and the wonder of the place. It’s both magical and real. Not many places are like that!
Camp is a place where I feel like I belong. At camp, I feel like I am accepted and loved.
In a world that seems more and more prescribed, camp is a necessary gift that we can give our children so that they may learn independence, gain confidence and have fun playing and challenging themselves individually and as a group. Pok-O does an incredible job setting the stage for just that sort of development and growth. I could not be happier that [she] has found the Pok-O community to be a home away from home to make new friends and try new things.