Camp Runoia
Be yourself! Try new activities! Build skills in activities you already like! Make friends and keep them for a life time! Sail a boat! Camp with your friends! Take a walk on the nature path or read a book in the Look Out Tower! Canter a horse! Imagine your summer being a mixture of playing and working hard, relaxing and enjoying days with friends by a pristine Maine lake with caring adults who are there for you and help create great summer moments. Silly times, fun times, good food, learning and playing making you so tired at the end of the day and making you yearn for the next day to begin. There are times in your life that become part of you. Times you treasure, adore and grow from, as well as times you carry in your heart each and every day. At Runoia you create these times. Camp Runoia is fuller than just any camp. It's a place you belong to and that belongs to you.
Summer Address
PO Box 450
Belgrade Lakes, ME 04918
207.495.2228
Winter Address
PO Box 450
Belgrade Lakes, ME 04918
207.495.2228
Memories of Camp
Read these stories from our camp community and add yours:
kathy said...
The hardest part about summer camp is letting go of her. But when I saw her happy face and independence at pickup, I could tell that she had the best time of her life.
jen said...
Over the past two summers Runoia has become a second home for my daughter and me. The directors are caring and know each girl. I teach horseback riding at camp as well as my daughter attending camp. I love the sense of community and look forward to many summers on the shores of Great Pond. I would recommend Runoia to any family looking for an amazing, traditional camp experience for their daughter. I have more memories than I can count, but watching all my horseback riders grow and learn, and accomplish their goals on horses, in and out of the show ring, has been the highlight of my experience.
lisa said...
My daughter started at Camp Runoia in Maine when she had just turned 10. This is her 6th summer and she begged us to send her for the two sessions and we caved in and agreed. From the first time we saw Camp Runoia we knew it was the camp for Olivia. It is physically one of the prettiest camps I have ever seen. The cabins seem to fit into the natural habitat as though they grew there like the trees. The waterfront is breathtaking. Maine has always been a special place for our family and therefore, sending our daughter to a Maine camp was a no brainer. She took to Camp Runoia like it was a second home. The directors are fantastic and they are all so involved in the daily routine. They do not sit on the periphery and just watch. I am so glad to have found this camp for Olivia and I know that she will be connected to Runoia for the rest of her life. She already talks of sending her own daughters someday!
jody said...
I started at Camp Runoia at age 8 and was a camper and then a counselor until my last summer at age 21. In large measure, all those summers in Maine impacted my ultimate decision to move to Maine and raise my family here. It's a decision I've never regretted. I sent my daughter to Camp Runoia when she was 8, and last summer, at age 27, she was an assistant director. Both my sons went to camp in Maine as well. I find that my kids share with me the unique experiences that came from having been part of Runoia and part of Maine camping. We all learned at an early age how to play well and live well with others. We learned skills that schools are unable to impart, so that now we are all adept in a canoe, in a sailboat, on a tennis court or on a camping trip; we all agree that many of our closest friends are still our camp friends; we all make a heck of a campfire and know every single camp song there possibly is to sing around it; but best of all, we all got our self esteem, our respect for the outdoors, our confidence and our positive spirit from being at camp. Next to my kids, Runoia is the best part of me....what's better than that?