Many youths attended the same summer-long camp for many years. Most camps accept boys or girls from ages eight to fifteen.
Camp programs are based on the idea that being outdoors promotes not only knowledge of nature and survival skills, but unique opportunities for group interactions and connections among campers and between campers and staff.
Private camps, like Camp Winnebago in Fayette, dot lakes and rivers throughout Maine. Other camps are operated by agencies or churches.
Groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls also operate camps throughout the state, although most campers attend those for a week or two, not the whole summer.
These campers from Bunk 1 posed on the steps of their bunkhouse in 1947.
