The Most Expensive Summer Camps in the United States

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Summer camp is a place many parents send their children for a few weeks during the summer. Summer camp prevents boredom, helps parents with childcare when jobs are a necessity and it helps to provide kids with some valuable life skills and lessons. However, not all summer camps consist of old cabins, ragged clothing and hiking through the woods and canoeing in rickety old canoes on a less than perfect lake. Some summer camps are a bit more high-end, upscale, and much more expensive. Read on to find out which summer camps are the most expensive summer camps in the US.

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Tyler Hill – $9,950

The company that owns Timber Lake also owns Tyler Hill. Much like Timber Lake, Tyler Hill is a coed summer camp separated into two different campuses for boys and girls. Kids between the ages of 7 and 16 can attend camp here, learning to make new friends, build character and focus on the proper attributes required for success in life. The camp is set on 220 acres in Wayne County in Pennsylvania. It has a professional golf course with 9 holes as well as a dozen tennis courts, two lakes and professional chefs that prepare each and every meal.

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Timber Lake Coed Camp – $9,950

This coed camp in the Catskill Mountains region of New York has two campuses. One campus is for girls and one is for boys. The purpose of the camp is to help girls and boys between the ages of 7 and 16 learn to focus on their character and build their character in an appropriate and healthy manner. There are two private lakes on this 500-acre property. Children will learn to foster new friendships through teambuilding activities that include sports competitions and adventures. While the sexes are generally separated, they do participate in some activities together.

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Wildwood Camp for Boys – $10,000

This camp is found in the forest of Bridgton, Maine and it is for boys ages 7 to 15. The camp is designed to have anywhere from 180 to 210 campers at a time, making it significantly smaller than some of the other camps in the country. However, it’s just as expensive as the other sleepover camps in the country. For an additional fee, your sons can take part in some extracurricular programs at the camp in addition to their rigorous daily schedule of sports and teambuilding activities. This includes a whitewater rafting trip to Montreal and Quebec.

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Walt Whitman – $10,050

This coed camp is run by the Whitman family and it is found in Piermont, New Hampshire. The camp property sits along the banks of Lake Armington in the White Mountains and is home to 300 children of both sexes each summer. The camp offers a full season rate or it can be divided into two seasons; July and August. This is the camp that has the most sets of siblings of any other camp in the country, without about 90 sets out of all the campers. The kids here learn to play golf, tennis and even get to water-ski with professionals on hand.

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Vega – $10,200

This is another girls only summer camp on the coast of Echo Lake in Maine. This camp has summer programs for girls between the ages of 7 and 15. The camp offers an art program, sports program and adventure program for all girls. There is a weekly campfire-type ordeal where each girl is responsible for practicing her public speaking skills. Uniforms are an absolute requirement at camp, as the camp likes to minimize the competition and differences between girls to foster friendship and proper behavior among the campers.

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Takajo Boys Camp – $10,400

Naples, Maine is the home to the Takajo Boys Camp. This summer camp is the brother camp of one of the other most expensive summer camps in the country, the Tripp Lake Camp for girls. Each summer, approximately 400 boys flock to Maine to take part in a summer camp program they’ll never forget. This camp offers tennis, archery, videography, golf and rock climbing. For the past 15 years, staff members have a 100 percent rate of return for the next season of camp. It costs a lot of money to send your boys to a camp in which they learn so many activities and stay in luxe accommodations.

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Tripp Lake Camp – $10,400

This is not your everyday girl’s summer camp. This one sits on more than 260 acres of waterfront property in Poland, Maine. Girls attending this camp wear uniforms. The girls are separated into groups when they arrive at camp so that they can spend the summer with other girls their own age learning a variety of skills and extracurricular activities. Sending your girls to this camp means they’ll learn theater techniques, canoeing, rock climbing, sailing and tennis. They will dine on a healthy, well-balanced (and professionally cooked) meal throughout the summer.

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Brant Lake Boys Camp – $10,470

This is one of the oldest boys camps in the country. It’s been in business almost 100 years, teaching boys from all over the world how to foster healthy relationships, build networking skills and learn to mature through teambuilding skills and activities. The camp is found in the Adirondack Mountains and sits alongside six miles of lake. There are professional coaches on staff to teach 330 campers each summer how to play specific sports and activities so that they receive the best possible education available to them in the fields that are most important to their development.

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Raquette Lake Girls Camp – $10,750

Located in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, this upscale camp is for girls. There is space for 250 campers from 6 to 15. The camp’s main emphasis is on tennis, and the girls are required to play daily under the instruction and expertise of Davis Cup pros. Girls in the 14-year-old category are required to make a 5-day trip in a canoe spanning 80 miles to Saranac Lake, no matter the weather. Girls with horses can bring them to camp and pay to board them over the summer so they can continue to ride them. Kids from more than 18 countries come here each summer.

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Camp Laurel – $12,600

This is a coed summer camp located in Readfield, Maine. This camp sits on Echo Lake, with nearly three miles of lakefront property. Kids who attend this camp are going to take part in a first-class equestrian program, have their laundry professionally cleaned, and play hard. The kids here range from age 7 to 15. There is space for 240 boys and 240 girls. The camp has a fleet of sailboats as well as a fleet of MasterCraft ski boats that they replace every 36 months. This camp has six campuses and the kids get to go to the beach, eat first-class meals and enjoy luxe accommodations.

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Written by Tiffany Raiford

Tiffany Raiford is a lifelong Floridian, wife to my high school sweetheart and mother of four littles (two girls and boy/girl twins...no, they are not identical and yes, I'm sure). My kids love to whine, so I love to wine. My loves include nap time, bed time, date night, travel and evenings and weekends when my husband is home because he handles all diaper changes.