Devil's Gulch Ranch is a diversified family farm located in California’s North Coast region and surrounded by Golden Gate National Recreational Area with its forests, meadows and trails. Campers come to Devil’s Gulch Ranch Camps to find out about life on a working ranch and to have fun the old-fashioned way, playing and swimming outside and learning traditional skills and crafts.

 Our core program is agriculture and nature, starting the day with farm chores for the Basic Camp and animal science for Advanced Camp. Our recreation and crafts are also related to farming traditions, with horseback riding, archery, swimming, tanning hides, carving bone and antler, and similar activities. We are small, with only 25 campers and five staff per week, so kids get to take part in or observe ranch-related activities usually unavailable to young people. We encourage you to check out our website!

Camp Type:  Residential Year Established: 2003 Gender: Coed Age of Campers: 9 to 18 years old Cost/Week: $651.00-$1000.00/wk Religious Affiliation: Camp Owner(s): Brian King Camp Director(s): Brian King Nearest Large City: San Rafael Off Season Rental: No

Camp Focus: Academic and Pre-College Camps: Animals Adventure Camps: Environmental Adventure Camps: Farming Adventure Camps: Primitive Skills Special Accommodations: Food Allergies,

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We offer two summer camp programs: Advanced Agricultural Science Camp for ages 13-18: This is a one- or two-week residential camp for high-school students with a real interest in animal science and more challenging recreation and crafts activities. The two week-long sessions are different, and we encourage campers to attend both. Students will be in groups of 4 to 6 and will spend 5 hours of each day throughout the 2 weeks doing serious animal science study, covering anatomy, physiology, reproduction, management and veterinary practices. Activities will be both hands-on and academic, working with swine, sheep, horses, chickens and quail. The students will be exposed to livestock production practices from breeding to meat on the table. The long afternoons will provide ample opportunity to develop skills in archery, pottery, fly-fishing, rappelling, nature lore, brain-tanning buckskins, and snorkeling. Evenings will be given to socializing, leadership activities, and stargazing. Basic Agriculture Camp for ages 9-13 What goes into making a farm? It’s more than putting a bunch of animals and plants on a piece of land. Farmers need to know how to take care of the animals and plants they raise for food, fiber, or work. Growing up on a farm has always meant learning a lot of this knowledge by watching and doing. Basic Farm Camp kids do chores in the morning and get an overview of the production of food, fiber and horses. Afterward, they have a choice of activities that will bring them closer to ranch work or give them a taste of the traditional pastimes enjoyed on farms when the chores were done. These include primitive skills, nature hikes, swimming, campfire songs and activities, and the camaraderie that only resident camp can provide.

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