Field Camp is a Charlottesville-area summer camp for boys and girls who want to spend their summers outside, active, independent, and surrounded by a community they can return to year after year.

Be Safe, Do Good, Have Fun, Help Out

A Different Kind of Summer Camp

ield Camp has been giving Charlottesville-area kids a place to spend their summers outdoors since 2000. We are deliberately smaller than many camps, with campers of different ages getting to know one another and counselors who often return year after year.

Kids swim, play games, make things, explore creeks and rivers, eat together, tell stories, get dirty and have enough unstructured time simply to be kids.

No phones. No video games. Not much sitting around indoors.

It feels a little like summer used to feel.

Why Field Camp Feels Different

COMMUNITY

Most campers come for more than one week, and many return summer after summer. Younger and older campers know each other. Counselors know kids outside their assigned groups. Over time, camp begins to feel less like a program and more like a summer neighborhood.

COUNSELORS WHO GREW UP HERE

Many members of our staff first came to Field Camp when they were six or seven years old. Years later, they return as counselors.

That continuity is one of the strongest parts of the camp. Today’s youngest campers grow up surrounded by teenagers and young adults who know the games, traditions and expectations because they grew up here too.

A REAL OUTDOOR CAMP

We spend our days outside. Campers swim in natural water, play field games, explore streams, make crafts, hike, paddle, climb, read stories, invent games and spend a lot of time moving.

There are no electronics at camp. Kids generally go home tired.