In Vermont, schools let out in mid-June and start back up again at the end of August. For 10 weeks or so, kids are hanging out at home — unless you can find something else for them to do.

Luckily, the Green Mountain State is home to a vast array of camps and summer programs that offer the kind of learning experiences you just can't find in the classroom. At camp, kids can make new friends, get outdoors and test their independence by spending time away from home.

Or if you'd rather have your little learners concentrate more on academics, there are camps for that, too.

To help you understand all of your options, we've created an easy-to-navigate directory of area summer camps. We've noted the type of camp, the age of the campers, the location and the dates of the sessions. We've also included phone numbers and websites where you can find program details and fees.

Below, you'll find a list of traditional day and sleepaway programs; academic and adventure camps; camps that offer arts, sports and science instruction; as well as nature camps and specialty programs. We hope this guide helps you fill those long summer days. Can't wait for them to get here already.

General Interest Day Camps

• Camp Abenaki Mascoma
  (Girl Scouts) Girls • ages 5-18 • June 27-July 8 • Thetford • 888-474-9686
• Camp Edge
  Coed • ages 5-12 • June 13-August 19 • Essex/Williston/South Burlington • 802-879-7734
• Camp Greylock
  Coed • ages 6-15 • June 22-August 19 • Ferrisburgh • 802-652-8139
• Camp Koda
  (YMCA) Coed • ages 5-12 • June 22-August 19 • various locations • 802-652-8150
• Camp Twin Hills
  (Girl Scouts) Girls • ages 5-18 • July 11-29 • Richmond • 888-474-9686
• Farm & Wilderness
  Barn Day Camp Coed • ages 4-10 • June 27-August 12 • Plymouth • 802-422-3761
• Greater Burlington YMCA
  Coed • ages 5-16 • June 13-August 26 • Burlington/Essex/Fairfax/Underhill • 802-652-8153
• Green Mountain Day Camp
  (Girl Scouts) Girls • ages 5-18 • June 20-June 24 • Salisbury • 802-989-4449
• Heartworks Summer Camp
  Coed • ages 2-5 • June 13-August 8 • Shelburne (starts at 6 weeks)/Burlington/Williston • 802-985-2153
• Renaissance Enrichment Academy
  Coed • ages 6-11 • June 20-July 21 • Shelburne • 802-951-1830
• Saxon Hill Summer Camp
  Coed • ages 3-9 • June 6-July 22 • Jericho • 802-899-3832
• The Schoolhouse
  Coed • ages 5-14 • June 27-August 26 • South Burlington • 802-658-4164
  
• Smugglers' Notch Resort Vermonter Summer Camp 
  Coed • ages 5-17 • June 20-August 5 • Smugglers' Notch • 802-332-6854
  
  

Traditional Sleepaway Camps

• Aloha Camp for Girls
  Girls • ages 12-17 • June 22-August 10 • Fairlee • 802-333-3400
• Brown Ledge Camp
  Girls • ages 10-18 • June 23-August 17 • Colchester • 802-862-2442
• Camp Abnaki
  Boys • ages 6-16 • June 25-August 20 • North Hero • 802-652-8180
• Camp Betsey Cox
  Girls • ages 6-15 • June 26-August 20 • Pittsford • 866-213-4717
• Camp Birch Hill
  Coed • ages 6-16 • June 26-August 6 • New Durham, N.H. • 603-859-4525
• Camp Dudley 
  Boys • ages 10-15 • June 28-August 21 • Westport, N.Y. • 518-962-4720
• Camp Farwell 
  Girls • ages 5-15 • June 26-August 19 • Newbury • 802-429-2244
• Camp Hawkeye
  Coed • ages 8-16 • June 26-August 20 • Moultonborough, N.H. • 718-315-1297
• Camp Hochelaga
  Girls • ages 6-17 • June 26-August 13 • South Hero • 802-862-7520
• Hosmer Point
  Coed • ages 5-15 • June 19-August 12 • Craftsbury Common • 802-586-2090
• Camp Kiniya
  Girls • ages 9-15 • June 28-August 20 • Colchester • 802-893-7850
• Camp Little Notch 
  Girls • ages 7-17 • July 10-August 5 • Fort Ann, N.Y. • 518-793-9700
  
• Camp Sangamon
  Boys • ages 9-16 • June 26-August 20 • Pittsford • 802-665-7505
• Keewaydin Dunmore
  Boys • ages 8-16 • June 26-August 20 • Salisbury • 802-352-4770
• Pok-O-MacCready Camps
  Girls/boys/coed • ages 6-16 • June 26-August 13 • Willsboro, N.Y. • 518-963-7656
• Songadeewin
  Girls • ages 8-16 • June 26-August 20 • Salisbury • 802-352-9860

Adventure Camps

• Champlain Discovery
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 13-16 • June 20-July 23 • Vergennes • 802-475-2022
• Green Mountain Freestyle Center
  Day • coed • ages 7-18 • June 20-August 26 • Williston • 802-652-2454
• Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 7-18 • July 4-August 5 • Quechee/Rutland • 802-773-3343
• Farm & Wilderness
  Sleepaway • girls/boys/coed • ages 4-17 • June 29 -August 14 • Plymouth/Mt. Holly • 802-422-3761
• Keewaydin Temagami
  Sleepaway • coed • ages 10-18 • June 26-August 20 • various locations • 802-352-4709
• Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Lake Adventure Camps
  Day • coed • ages 4-16 • June 20-August 12 • Burlington/Vergennes • 802-475-2022
• Night Eagle
  Wilderness Adventure Sleepaway • boys • ages 9-14 • July 3-August 13 • Cuttingsville • 802-446-6100
• Northern Lights
  Rock and Ice Day • coed • ages 6-15 • June 20-August 24 • Essex Junction • 802-316-3300
• Petra Cliffs
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 6-16 • June 13-August 26 • Burlington • 802-657-3872
• Raised Jay
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 6-16 • July 11-August 12 • Jay • 802-988-2611
• Smuggs Camp
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 5-15 • June 10-September 5 • Smugglers' Notch • 802-332-6841
• Talent Skatepark
  Day • coed • ages 5-13 • June 20-August 26 • Williston • 802-864-2069
• Vermont Adventure Camps
  Sleepaway • coed • ages 13-17 • Call for dates • Thetford Center • 802-591-0328

Academic Camps

• Future Einsteins
  Day • coed • ages 6-12 • June 8-August 19 • Colchester • 802-288-9035
• International Children's School
  Day • coed • ages 3-6 • July 5-22 • South Burlington • 802-865-3344
• Kumon Math & Reading of the Upper Valley
  Day • coed • ages 3-18 • Begins June 1 • Norwich • 802-649-1416
• Middlebury Monterey Language Academy
  Sleepaway • coed • ages 12-18 • June 28-July 24 • Colchester (French, Chinese) / Poultney (Arabic, German, Spanish) • 802-458-9252
• Stern Center for Language and Learning Camp Compass
  Day • coed • June 27-30; July 5-8 • Williston • 802-878-2332
• Sylvan Learning Center
  Day • coed • grades 1-8 • June 20-August 19 • South Burlington • 802-864-5600
• Talent Development Institute
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 9-14 • June 19-July 2 • Johnson • 802-658-9941

Performing Arts Camps

• American Dance Training Camp
  Sleepaway/Day • girls • ages 8-17 • June 26-July 23 • Stratton Mountain • 866-383-2382
  
• Burklyn Ballet Theatre
  Sleepaway • coed • ages 10-20 • June 26-August 7 • Johnson • 877-287-5596
  
• Burlington Taiko
  Day • coed • ages 6 and up • call for dates • Burlington • 802-999-4255
  
• Circus Smirkus
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 5-18 • June 19-August 24 • Greensboro • 802-533-7443
  
• FlynnArts
  Day • coed • ages 4-18 • June 13-August 12 • Burlington/Shelburne/Colchester • 802-863-5966
  
• Footworks Studio of Dance
  Day • coed • ages 5-12 • June 20-24; June 27-30; July 11-15; July 25-29  • Milton • 802-922-7577
  
• Fusion 802
  Day • coed • ages 3-18 • June 27-August 12 • South Burlington • 802-444-0100
• Girls Rock
  Day • girls • ages 8-18 • July 18-23; August 8-13 • Winooski • 802-503-0409
• Green Mountain Youth Symphony Creative Arts & Music Program
  Sleepaway • coed • by audition • August 7-13 • Johnson • 802-888-4470 
• Honest Yoga/B-Tru Dance
  Day • coed • ages 4-15 • June 13-August 19 • South Burlington • 802-497-0136
• Island Arts Academy
  Day • coed • ages 10 and up • August 1-5 • North Hero • academy@islandarts.org, 802-372-5363
• Lost Nation Theater
  Day • coed • ages 6-16 • June 20-24/July 11-15 • Montpelier • 802-229-0492
• Lyric Theatre
  Day • coed • ages 8-13 • July 18-29 • Williston • 802-658-1484
• Lyric Theatre
  Day • coed • ages 8-13 • July 18-29 • Williston • 802-658-1484
• McFadden Academy of Irish Dance 
  Day • coed • July 11-29 • Colchester/Middlebury • 802-999-5041
• PanAshé Arts Day Camp • day • coed • ages 5-15 • July 11-August 19 • Hardwick • 917-2179
  
• Spotlight on Dance 
  Day • coed • ages 8-22 • June 13-August 19 • South Burlington/Colchester/Middlebury • 802-865-7626
• Stowe Dance Academy
  Day • coed • ages 2-18 • June 20-August 12 • Stowe/Waitsfield (Mad River Dance Academy) • 802-253-5151
• Summer Dance with Karen Amirault 
  Day • coed • ages 6-18 • July 6-31 • Burlington/Middlebury • amirault@burlingtontelecom.net
• Town Hall Theater
  Day • coed • ages 18 and under • June 20-August 24 • Middlebury • 802-388-1436
  
• Trad Camp (Young Traditions)
  Day • coed • ages 8-17 • July 25-29 • Shelburne • mark.sustic@gmail.com
  
• Trad Camp (Summit School)
  Day • coed • ages 8-17 • July 18-22 • Montpelier • robinsongs@frontier.com
  
• Urban Dance Complex
  Day • coed • ages 7-15 • July 11-15; July 18-22 • Williston • 802-863-6600
  
• Vermont Ballet Theatre School
  Day • coed • ages 3-18 • June 6-August 12 • Essex/Shelburne • 802-878-2941
• Vermont Jazz Camp
  Day • coed • ages 10-18 • July 11-15 • Colchester • 802-372-5363
• Vermont Youth Orchestra Association
  Day • coed • ages 10-16 • June 20-24/July 25-29/August 8-12 • Colchester • 802-655-5030
• Very Merry Theatre
  Day • coed • ages 6-18 • June 13-August 5 • Burlington/Charlotte/Vergennes • 802-355-1461

Visual Arts Camps

• All Together Now
  Day • coed • ages 6-12 • June 3-August 26 • East Montpelier • 802-223-1242 
• Art Camp
  Day • coed • ages 6-17 • July 11-29 •Colchester • 802-862-9037 
• BCA Center
  Day • coed • ages 3-18 • June 20-August 19 • Burlington • 802-865-7166 
• Davis Studio
  Day • coed • ages 4-17 • June 13- August 26 • Burlington • 802-425-2700
• Helen Day Art Center
  Day • coed • ages 3-16 • June 27-August 5 • Stowe • 802-253-8358
• Island Arts Academy
  Day • coed • ages 12 and up • July 25-29 • North Hero • academy@islandarts.org, 802-372-5363
• Purple Crayon/ArtisTree Community Arts Center
  Day • coed • ages 3-16 • June 20-August 26  • South Pomfret • 802-457-3500
• Seminary Arts Center
  Day • coed • ages 5-14 • June 20-August 26 • Waterbury • 802-253-8790
• Shelburne Craft School
  Day • coed • ages 5-14 • June 27-July 29 • Shelburne • 802-985-3648
• Shelburne Museum LEAP! Summer Camp
  Day • coed • ages 4-18 • June 27-August 12 • Shelburne • 802-985-3346, ext. 3395
• Turtle Lane Art and Nature Camp 
  Day • coed • ages 3-8 • July 5-29 • Shelburne • adiehlnoble@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org
• Wildflowers Studio
  Day • coed • ages 3-10 • July 11-22; August 1-12 • South Burlington • 802-318-8880
• Wingspan Studio 
  Day • coed • ages 4-17 • June 13-August 19 • Burlington • 802-233-7676
  

Science/Nature Camps

• Camp Bread and Butter
  Day • coed • ages 5-12 • June 27-August 5 • Shelburne • 802-922-5349
  
• Camp Paw Paw (Humane Society of Chittenden County) 
  Day • coed • ages 7-12 • July 11-August 19 • South Burlington • 802-862-0135
• Crow's Path
  Day • coed • ages 6-14 • July 4-August 13 • Burlington • 802-557-7127
  
• Echo Leahy Center for Lake Champlain
  Day • coed • ages 5-11 • June 20-August 22 • Burlington • 802-864-1848, ext. 141
• Green Mountain Conservation Camps
  Sleep-away • boys/girls • ages 12-16 • June 19-August 19 • Woodbury/Castleton • 802-828-1460
• Lamoille County Nature Center
  Day • coed • ages 3-12 • June 13-August 12 • Morrisville • 802-888-9218, ext. 113
• Montshire Museum of Science
  Day • coed • ages 4-13 • June 27-August 19 • Norwich • 802-649-2200
• Mountain's Edge Farm 
  Day • coed • ages 5-13 • contact for dates • Hinesburg • mtnsedgefarm@gmavt.net
• New Village Farm
  Day • coed • ages 5-18 • June 13-August 24 • Shelburne • 802-338-0116
• North Branch Nature Center
  Day • coed • ages 4-14 • June 13-August 12 • Montpelier • 802-229-6206
• Orchard Valley Waldorf School
  Day • coed • ages 4-11 • June 20-August 26 • East Montpelier • 802-456-7400
• Otter Creek Wildlife Rescue
  Day • coed • ages 6-12 • June 28-July 1 • Addison (pickup/drop-off site in Charlotte) • 802-759-3148
• ReTribe
  Day • coed • ages 12-19 • July 17-28; August 15-21 • Stannard/Roxbury  • 802-371-5027
• Sustainable Outdoor Leadership Education (S.O.L.E.)
  Day • coed • ages 6-12 • June 27-August 19 • Burlington • 802-863-5744
• UVM Perkins Museum Environmental
  Day Camp Day • coed • ages 6-13 • July 18-22 • Burlington • 802-656-1344
• Vermont Audubon
  Day • coed • ages 3-17 • June 20-August 19 • Huntington • 802-434-3068
• Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature Camp
  Day/Sleepaway • coed • ages 4-13 • June 20-August 24 • Quechee/South Pomfret/Hanover/Washington/White River Junction • 802-359-5000

Specialty Camps

• Bethany Birches Camp
  Religious • sleepaway/day • coed • ages 5-17 • June 20-August 4 • Plymouth • 802-672-5220
• Camp Abnaki Family Camp
  Family camp • sleepaway • all ages • May 27-30; mother/child September 9-16; father/son September 23-25 • North Hero • 802-862-7520
• Camp Common Ground
  Family camp • sleepaway • all ages • July 16-August 12 • Starksboro • 802-453-2592
• Camp ForMe
  Adopted children • day • coed • ages 7-17 • July 11-15; July 18-22 • Stowe • 802-338-7382
• Camp Outright
  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning youth • sleepaway • coed • ages 13-18 • August 14-20 • Starksboro • 802-865-9677
• Mount Snow Family Camp
  Family camp • sleepaway • all ages • July 31-August 14 • West Dover • 800-245-7669
• Pok-O-MacCready Family Camp
  Family camp • sleepaway • all ages • August 17-21 • Willsboro, New York • 518-963-7656
• Stern Center for Language and Learning Camp Compass
  Children with autism • day • coed • ages 7-12 • June 27-30; July 5-8 • Williston• 802-878-2332
  
• Tech Savvy Camp
  Technology • day • girls/coed • ages 9-13 • June 20-24; August 8-12 • call for locations in Chittenden and Orleans counties • 802-557-0013, ext. 216
• The Rock Point Center
  Religious • day/sleepaway • coed • ages 5-18 • June 20-August 5 • Burlington • 802-658-6233
• Rosie's Girls
  STEM • day/sleepaway • girls • Entering grades 6-8 • June 20-August 5 • various locations statewide • 802-622-0400, ext. 157
• Young Hacks Academy
  Computer programming • day • coed • ages 6-14 • July 11-29 • Multiple locations in Vermont • 802-999-7092

Sports Camps

• Catamount Cross-Country Running Camp
  Day • coed • ages 10-17 • July 11-15 • Williston • 802-879-6001
• Dirt Divas
  Day • girls • Entering grades 6-8 • June 20-August 12 • Various locations statewide • 802-622-0400, ext. 152
  
• Dunkley's Gymnastics Camp
  Sleepaway • girls/coed • ages 7-17 • June 19-August 19 • South Hero • 802-899-3479
• Enniskerry Farm
  Day • coed • ages 7-12 • June 20-August 19 • Colchester • 802-872-9992
• Farmhouse Center Riding
  Day • coed • ages 3-17 • June 13-August 22 • Colchester • 802-872-8712
• Fell-Vallee Equestrian Center's Summer Program
  Day • coed • ages 5-14 • June 13-August 14 • Hinesburg • 802-482-4393
• Fun in the Sun Lacrosse Camp  
  Day • girls/boys • ages 7-14 • July 18-22/July 25-29 • So. Burlington • 802-662-0661
• Green Mountain Training Center
  Day • coed • ages 6-13 • June 20-August 26 • Williston • 802-652-2454
• Green Mountain Field Hockey Academy
  Sleepaway • girls • ages 8-18 • July 10-15 • UVM, Burlington • greenmountainfha@gmail.com
• Green Mountain Running Camp
  Sleepaway • coed • ages 11-18 • July 24-August 12 • Meriden, New Hampshire • 800-645-3226
• Gymstar Gymnastics
  Day • coed • ages 3-12 • June 20-August 26 • Shelburne • 802-985-8948
• Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center
  Day • coed • ages 6-18 • June 13-August 19 • Burlington • 802-864-2499 
• Malletts Bay Boat Club Junior Sailing Program
  Day • coed • ages 8-18 • June 13-August 12 • Colchester • 802-363-9125
• Martial Way
  Day • coed • ages 5-13 • June 20-August 5 • Milton • 802-893-8893
• MetroRock
  Day • coed • ages 5-18 • June 20-August 26 • Essex • 802-878-4500
• Next Level Basketball Camp
  Day/sleepaway • girls • ages 8-17• June 26-30; August 7-11 • UVM, Burlington • 802-891-6620
• Northern Edge Lacrosse Camp
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 10-18 • July 19-21 • Burlington • 802-656-7709
• Redhawk Soccer Camp
  Day • coed • ages 5-14 • July 11-15 • Shelburne • swilliams@cvuhs.org
• Redhawks Girls Lacrosse Camp
  Day • Girls • Grades 3-8 • June 27-July 1 • Hinesburg (CVU High School) • tuckerpierson@gmail.com
  
• Regal Gymnastics
  Day • coed • ages 3-14 • June 20-August 19 • Essex • 802-655-3300
• St. Michael's College Summer Sports Camps
  Day/sleepaway • boys/girls/coed • ages 7-17 • June 13-August 5 • Colchester • 802-654-2709
• Vermont Athletic Academy
  Day• coed • Grades 4-7 • July 18-August 19 • Shelburne • 802-985-4477
• Vermont Soccer School
  Sleepaway • girls/boys • grades 4-10 • July 17-21 • Johnson • 802-309-3983
• Vermont Voltage
  Day/sleepaway • coed • ages 5-18 • June 20-August 26 • various Vermont locations • 802-527-1077
  
  

Parks & Recreation Department Camps

• Burlington Parks, Recreation & Waterfront
  Day • coed • ages 6-12 • June 20-August 19 • Burlington • 802-863-0123
  
• Camp Hoopla 
  Day • coed • ages 10-14 • June 20-24 • Charlotte • 802-425-6129
  
• Milton Recreation
  Day • coed/girls/boys • ages 7-18 • June 15-August 19 • 802-893-4922
• Montpelier Department of Recreation
  Day • coed • ages 5-12 • June 13-August 12 • Montpelier • 802-225-8699
• Randolph Recreation Department
  Day • coed • grades 1-6 • June 27-August 19 • Randolph • 802-728, 5433, ext. 18 
  
• South Burlington Recreation and Parks
  Day • coed • ages 4-15 • June 20-August 12 • South Burlington • 802-846-4108
  
• St. Albans Recreation 
  Day • coed • ages 6-15 • June 20-August 26 • St. Albans • 802-524-1500, ext. 266
• Stowe Recreation
  Day • coed • grades K-12 • June 20-August 26 • Stowe • 802-253-6138
• Waterbury Recreation
  Day • coed • grades K-6  • June 20-August 12 • Waterbury • 802-244-7174