Web Site Menu

  • Rates and Dates

  • Request a Brochure & DVD
    Use our new online form to request a brochure, DVD, or set-up a home visit.

  • Summer Camp Application
    An easy to print version of our camper application form.

  • Summer Camper Registration Checklist
    An easy way to ensure of included everything.

  • Parent's Manual (Adobe PDF file)
    Everything a parent could ever want to know (and need to know) about sending your child to summer camp.

  • Camp Health Form (You can complete the form online and then print)
    This is our 2008 Summer Camper Health Form in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

  • Camper Information Form (You can complete the form online and then print)
    This is our 2008 Camper Information Form in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

  • Travel Information

  • Summer Camp Clothing List
    A quick list of what to bring to camp this summer.

  • Camp Manitou Privacy Policy
    Please read our Privacy Policy

  • Peace and Love at Camp Manitou
    By Avrum Rosensweig

  • Technology at Camp

  • Sending your child to camp for the first time is a leap of faith

  • Homesickness
    Some helpful information about homesickness.

  • Why Send Your Child to Summer Camp
    Just a little guidance for some parents.

  • Some Words of Wisdom for First Time Parents
    Typical mistakes by first time parents.

  • What you really should be asking your Camp Director
    Here is a list of some questions that you should be asking your Camp Director so that you can make sure your child is in a safe and secure environment where respect and tolerance are the order of the day.

  • Letter from a 15 year old camper coming to camp for the first time.
    A letter from a 15 year old camper who came to Manitou for the first time as one of a few new kids in the cabin.

  • Fresh Kids
    The FreshKids are our youngest campers between the ages of 7-9 (Grade 1*, 2 and 3).

  • Interesting Article About Camp
    By Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company

  • Camp Is...
    A series of campers' thoughts on camp.

  • Camp Communication Issues
    by Joanne Kates; edited slightly by Mark Diamond

  • Camp food to write about home about
    Thanks to increasingly sophisticated palates, kids now dine on couscous, tofu chili and guacamole

  • Have summer camps become too materialistic?
    By MAIA FILAR, Special to The CJN