Camp Fernwood

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CAMP FERNWOOD - CAMP INFORMATION
Camp Type: Overnight Session Length: 7 Weeks 2021 Summer Season Dates Opening Day: Thursday, June 24 Visiting Day: Saturday, July 24 Closing Day: Wednesday, August 11 Camp Focus: Acting Music Vocal Instrument Traditional Non-Arts Primary Arts Programming Avail

Founded in 1921, Camp Fernwood is a nurturing, traditional summer camp for girls, located in Poland, Maine on the shore of beautiful Lake Thompson. Fernwood is a community of 220 campers and 140 resident staff. We offer a full season (7 weeks) for girls ranging in age from 8 to 15 years old.

The message girls get at Fernwood is often quite the opposite of what they hear in their daily lives. From a young age, women are repeatedly barraged with negative messages from both peers and the media. A summer experience at Fernwood, focusing on simplicity, inclusion, tolerance and friendship helps girls to put that negative outside culture in a healthy perspective. By enhancing our girls’ sense of self, and teaching them the importance of being strong, healthy and independent, they are more resilient and less affected by many of those negative pressures.