Our Vision

With both Camp Ohiyesa and Nissokone, it is our vision to prepare your child to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow through programs that develop the individual, strengthen the family, and build safe, caring communities. A quality summer camping experience can provide one of the most exciting and precious memories in a your child's life!

Our Culture

Our camps provide a quality culture that is experienced in our environment, activities, staff, and facilities. Your child will experience:

Small Group Environment
We limit the number of campers each session to ensure a caring family atmosphere where each child is known and treated as an individual. Within this small group environment, children grow in self-confidence, learn to work cooperatively with others, and improve their sense of responsibility and independence.

Highly Trained Staff
Our staff provides a supervised, fun and challenging camp experience in a safe and caring environment.

Growth and Development
Your child will not only build memories that last a lifetime, but will also become more appreciative of nature, develop new and lasting friendships, experience new activities, and grow in creativity and awareness of the world around them.

Exciting/Challenging Activities
During their stay, you child will enjoy several daily activities including: swim lessons, horseback riding, fishing, nature hikes, archery, sailing, and much more!

Beautiful Camp Facilities
Both of our camps offer beautiful lodging, each with its own unique offerings.

Choosing a Camp

As you begin to choose a camp for your child, look over some features about each camp that makes them so special.

Features of Camp Ohiyesa

• NEW!! 2 Week horse camp
• NEW!! Giant Waterslide
• NEW!! 1/2 Day discovery camp (Grades K-2)
• Offers Day Camp (Grades K-8) & Overnight Camp (Grades 3-6)
• Around since 1919.
• Located in a beautiful facility encompassing 300 acres of lake, woods, and fields in North West Oakland County.
• Provides quality programs in a caring, family environment.
• Offers many challenging opportunities for growth, joy, and discovery in a noncompetitive and highly supervised small group atmosphere.
• Provides children the opportunity to make choices. Our capable and talented program staff will be teaching campers a wide variety of skills including climbing, canoeing, water games, creative arts, international sports, fishing, outdoor cooking and many more.
• Encourages children to experience new and different age appropriate activities. On the first day of the session, every camper is placed in a trail group. A trail group is a group of 8-10 same age campers and a senior staff member. At mealtime and in the afternoon, campers will spend their time within the trail group. Afternoons with the trail group may include, archery, free swim, a kickball game with another trail group, climbing at the tower, group games, creative arts and more.
• Helps children develop self-confidence, teamwork, and appreciation of the outdoors, creativity and pride in themselves and their newly learned skills.
• Provides high quality staff offering expert leadership, guidance and friendship. The staff helps each camper to reach his or her fullest potential in skill development as well as social and personal growth.

Features of Camp Nissokone

• NEW!! Water skiing
• NEW!! Paintball course
• NEW!! Mountain Boards
• Offers Overnight Camp (Ages 8 - 14) & Day Camp (Grades K-8)
• Provides a caring family atmosphere with exciting and challenging activities.
• Located on 170 beautiful acres on Lake VanEttan, and borders 1,000 acres of national forest.
• Limits the number of campers each session to ensure a caring family atmosphere where each child is known and treated as an individual. Within this small group environment, children grow in self-confidence, learn to work cooperatively with others, and improve their sense of responsibility and independence.
• Provides a supervised, fun and challenging camp experience in a safe and caring environment with our highly trained staff.
• Focuses on child growth and development for children to become more appreciative of nature, develop new and lasting friendships, experience new activities, and grow in creativity and awareness of the world around them.
• Provides exciting and challenging activities such as swim lessons, skateboarding, climbing, horseback riding, fishing, nature hikes, archery, sailing, and much more!
• Offers a beautiful lodge, riding stables, skatepark, climbing center, theater with stage and cabins with modern bathrooms inside.
  

Health & Safety

Both camps are designed with the health and safety of your children in mind. Some of our health and safety measures include:

• A full time health director or nurse is on duty at camp in our infirmary
• A physician is on call 24 hours a day.
• Camps provide daily, hearty, well-balanced, home cooked meals and snacks.
  
• Both camps are inspected and licensed by the State of Michigan and are also accredited by the American Camp Association.
  

Our Staff

The key to our success is our experienced and enthusiastic staff. Our counselors are carefully chosen from a variety of colleges and most are students of education, social work, and recreation. In addition, we have highly qualified and specialized staff for each activity area to ensure that campers get the best learning experience.

All of our staff members are chosen for their maturity, enthusiasm, and ability to be positive role models for your child. Prior to your camper's arrival at camp, prospective staff members undergo a thorough background check, drug screening and an intensive training program. Most importantly, our staff members understand, and value, young people and are committed to helping campers develop in positive ways.