Red Spruce Grove Girls, Ages 11-14
Strong hands, strong hearts
confidence in self and community Life in the Wild
Immersed in a wilderness community, campers distill daily life to the essentials. While cooking over an open fire, they create tasty meals, build shelters, learn ax and knife safety, archery and other wilderness-living skills.
Amid the knot tying and blueberry picking, campers learn resilience and self-reliance. They emerge from the experience stronger, more confident, aware and capable.
Red Spruce Grove Dates
| Full Session | June 26-August 11 | |
| July Session | June 26-July 19 | |
| August Session | July 21-August 11 |
Red Spruce Grove Activities
Campers, who start off together at Indian Brook, hike to their site on a wilderness plateau. After their time living closely to the land in a small, supportive community, they return excited and eager to share their experiences and wilderness craft with other camps.
Posts from Red Spruce Grove
Smiles and Laughter Abound
Smiles and laughter were abound despite Vermont’s fast and frequent downpours at the Grove this past week. In addition to a few cool afternoon blueberry harvest sessions, campers prepared for their solos by practicing their fire building and shelter making skills. Some kids even built a tripod for lamb jerky to take with them. The […]
Greetings from the Grove!
Over the past week we’ve begun to settle into our home on the mountaintop meadow, new and old campers alike have discovered and rediscovered all of the magical wonders that this place has to offer. Campers have been working on their fire and shelter building skills in preparation for solos coming up and have also […]
Learning Skills and Settling In!
The first week of the second session at Red Spruce Grove has been a soggy one, yet the campers had a chance to prepare for camp while staying at the Lower Lodge at Indian Brook for a few days. Despite the downpours, the campers practiced ax safety skills, honed their carving abilities by making chop […]
