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Adventure Camp

Summer Address:

   Hancock, New Hampshire, USA
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Off-Season Address:

   Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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The goal is adventure! Twenty-one programs—from 6 to 26 days long—offer your child choices among ropes courses, canoeing, backpacking, rock climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, community service, leadership development, and other exciting adventures. Programs range from our popular on-site Adventure Challenge to multi-day wilderness trips in five different states. All campers, whether enrolled in Adventure Challenge or programs with off-site trips, take part in outdoor skills training, sports, crafts, community activities, waterfront adventures, and special all-camp events at Sargent Center. Campers enrolled in trip programs prepare for and wrap up their trips at Sargent Center, and participate in group teambuilding activities plus at least one high challenge activity.

CAMPERS:  Adventure Camp is for children and teens who enjoy challenging themselves in the outdoors. We limit enrollment to ensure an overall 1-to-5 staff-to-camper ratio, and group campers by age in living areas and activity groups. Typically, activity groups are coed with 8 to 12 campers in a group. Exceptions occur if there is an imbalance in enrollment. We want to ensure Adventure Camp is the best fit for every camper. If you are the parent of a child with special physical, mental, or emotional needs, or if your child receives the support of an aide at school, please contact us prior to registering to discuss your child’s experience at camp.

FACILITIES:  Sargent Center is located on 700 beautiful acres of woodland in the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire. Our site features 22 miles of trails, a large field for recreation, and a 60-acre pond with a sandy beach for swimming and water adventures. Our dining hall serves three hearty, nutritious meals daily. Campers live in cabins with bunks and convenient bathroom facilities—or in one of our two yurt villages. A modern bathhouse supports the yurts, which are round canvas structures built on wooden platforms with decks. Yurts have screened windows and doors, camp bunks, storage containers, and a skylight. Activities

center around the villages’ campfire circles and pavilions.

 

HEALTH AND SAFETY:  Sargent Center’s first commitment is to the well-being of each camper. This is evident in our activity procedures, facilities, equipment, staff, and our outstanding safety record. Our full-time resident nursing staff oversees your child’s health needs and is supported by an on-call physician and emergency medical facility. New Hampshire state law requires any child attending camp to have had a physical examination within two years

 

Camp Type:  Residential  Travel
Year Established: 1932
Gender: Coed
Age of Campers: 10 to 17 years old
Cost/Week: $651.00-$1000.00/wk
Religious Affiliation:
Camp Owner(s): Boston University
Camp Director(s): Doug Sutherland
Nearest Large City: Boston, MA
Off Season Rental: Yes
Accreditations ?
ACA
Camp Focus:
Adventure Camps: Canoeing
Adventure Camps: Kayaking
Adventure Camps: Mountain Biking
Adventure Camps: Rock Climbing

Special Accommodations:
Food Allergies,
Adventure Activities:
  •  Assorted Adventures
  •  Backpacking
  •  Canoeing
  •  Environmental
  •  Hiking
  •  Kayaking
  •  Mountain Biking
  •  Rock Climbing
  •  Ropes Course
  •  Wilderness

* 6-DAY PROGRAMS:                AGE

JUNE 28-JULY 3                       

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

Trip Taster                                 12-15

JULY 5-10

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

Rock Climbing Trek                    13-16

JULY 12-17

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

JULY 19-24

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

JULY 26-31

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

Rock Climbing Trek                    13-16

AUGUST 2-7

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

Rock Climbing Trek                    13-16

AUGUST 9-14

Adventure Challenge                   10-14

Trip Taster                                 12-15

H2O Challenge                          12-15

 

*13-DAY PROGRAMS:               AGE

JUNE 28-JULY 10

Adventure Quest                        10-14

Adventure Trek                           10-14

New Hampshire Canoe               12-14

Granite State Mountain Bike       12-14

Pioneer Outpost                         12-15

Coastal Maine Adventure            14-16

Legacy Expedition                     14-17

Sargent’s Challenge                   15-16

JULY 12-24                              

Adventure Quest                        10-14

Adventure Trek                           10-14

Pack and Paddle II                     13-15

New England Mountain Bike       13-15

Squam Lake Kayak                    13-15

New Hampshire Rocks               14-16

Coastal Maine Adventure            14-16

Sargent’s Challenge                   15-16

JULY 26-AUGUST 7                  

Adventure Quest                        10-14

Adventure Trek                           10-14

Pack and Paddle I                      12-14

Pioneer Outpost                         12-15

Coastal Maine Adventure            14-16

Vermont Mountain Bike              14-16

Paddling Odyssey                      15-17

 

*20-DAY PROGRAMS:               AGE

JUNE 28-JULY 17                     

Leader-in-Training                       15-16

 

*26-DAY PROGRAMS:               AGE

JUL 19-AUG 14             

Counselor-in-Training                  16-17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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