Saltash Mountain Wilderness Camp for Teens & Tweens
Mixed Gender, Ages 11-14
Skits, music and backcountry adventures
Saltash Mountain Wilderness Camp for Teens & Tweens
Saltash Mountain
Wilderness
Exploration
Saltash Mountain is a small wilderness camp where teens and campers explore backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing or service trips. Campers learn to accept each other, celebrate themselves, and work cooperatively. Living together in open-sided cabins, they play guitar and piano. Carpentry, creative writing, gardening and other activities round out the summer.
Saltash Mountain Camp Dates
| Full Session | July 1-August 16 | |
| July Session | July 1-July 24 | |
| August Session | July 26-August 16 |
Saltash Mountain Camp Activities
Interested in wilderness travel? Saltash Mountain is the camp for you. While building confidence in backcountry skills, teens and tweens progress from 3-day to 6-day trips in each session.
"We form a really tight and bonded community. We have lots of really fun and cool activities. We go on really fun hiking trips. Everyone is really accepting and kind."
—-Saltash Mountain Camper
Posts from Saltash Mountain
Menu Planning for Better Eating
As the cook at Saltash Mountain Camp, I have lots of experience making plans for yummy, healthy food. When cooking at camp for 60, 100, or 200 people, menu planning is essential. It allows me to shop for food efficiently and ensures that I have a balanced menu. The same is true when cooking at […]
Rock of Ages
Before SAM Lodge was SAM Lodge, it was the site of a cabin for Clarence and Maggie Davis and their children and grandchildren, who stayed there in the summers throughout the 1950s. Back then, Bruce Stryhar was a young boy, and he spent his days running about in the Ninevah woods. One summer, the family […]
A Harvest Weekend Adventure: The SAM Trail
We could not have asked for a more beautiful fall weekend in Vermont for our annual F&W Harvest Weekend. The fall colors were out in full brilliance, the sun was shining, and the woods were beckoning for us to come explore. So, we did. Less than 10 miles south on route 100 from Farm and […]
