Daily Activities

At Camp Chateaugay, we empower campers to follow their passions, with expert coaching and supervision. Their daily schedule is a mix of activities that are both picked by the campers (called electives) and assigned by us with the campers in their bunks (called bunk activities) to promote bonding and self-confidence — all while having the time of their lives.

Activity Selection & Scheduling: Each week campers will have the opportunity to sit with program specialists to make changes to their schedules. Younger camper’s daily schedule has 3 electives and 3 bunk activities. Older camper’s daily schedule has 4 electives and 2 bunk activities

 

Land Sports

Instruction from coaches that are at least college level athletes if not professional coaches and players. All supervision is age and developmentally appropriate. Skill building is matched with sportsmanship in a supportive environment. 

  • Archery
  • Baseball- with batting cages and pitching machines  
  • Basketball – with indoor and outdoor courts 
  • Cross-Country
  • Fishing 
  • Fitness 
    • Circuits
    • Free Weights
    • HIT (High Intensity)
  • Flag Football
  • Floor Hockey
  • Frisbee
  • Golf- on site driving range, off-site lessons
  • GaGa Ball
  • Gymnastics – with spring floor, bars, beam & vault, freestyle and parkour 
  • High Ropes Adventure Course (including a zip line)
  • Horseback riding (both ring & cross-country course, English Style)
  • Lacrosse
  • Martial Arts
  • Mountain biking
  • Pickle-ball
  • Pilates 
  • Rock Climbing
  •  Soccer
  •  Softball
  •  Tennis
  •  Volleyball
  • Yoga

Trips (Overnight Camping)

Cabins get an opportunity to go on special trips together to take full advantage of our location near the High Peaks region of New York State’s Adirondack park. They can include:

  • Backpacking, hiking, canoeing, and rock climbing trips throughout the Adirondack park.
  • Overnight trips on our own property for the youngest campers.
  • Every trip is supervised by an experienced, trained staff member.
  • Older campers get opportunities to excel in trip planning by organizing and packing for trips.
  • Whitewater rafting trip, one time each session. (Additional charges apply to this trip only)
  • Sunset Trips

Watersports

Waterfront sports taught to inspire confidence and mastery, specialists while being supervised by trained lifeguards. We emphasize technical instruction, taught at appropriate levels to inspire confidence.

  • Canoeing
  • Rowing
  • Diving
  • General Swim (in the pool or in the Lake with inflatables, water slide, diving board, trampoline)
  • Kayaking
  • Paddle Boarding
  • Sailing – our fleet includes Sunfish, Optis, 420’s and Lasers
  • Swim Instruction
  • Water skiing- with 5 inboard ski boats (Mastercraft, Nautique, and Moomba)
  • Wakesurf/ Wakeboard / Knee-Boarding
  • Windsurfing
  • Swim Team
  • Fun Fitness & Water Aerobics
  • Junior Lifeguarding
  • Pool Party
  • Synchronized Swim

Arts & Crafts

Arts and crafts staff is full of experienced creators, with work taking place in our beautiful arts lodge, woodworking studio with lathes, jigsaws and sanders, ceramics studio with potters wheels and kilns and incredible state of the art glass blowing studio for work with soft glass AND flame. Woodworking is taught in our wood studio by dedicated experts who put safety first. 

  • 3-D Pen Design
  • Batik
  • Bracelet Making
  • Crafts
  • Dark Room Photography
  • Drawing 
  • Fabric arts
  • Jewelry
  • Mosaics
  • Painting
  • Photography
  • Printmaking
  • Photo lab Editing
  • Short Film Productions
  • Screen Printing
  • Sewing
  • Shrinky dinks
  • Stained Glass
  • Tie Dying
  • Woodworking

Glass Blowing

Ceramics

  • Pottery Wheel (10)
  • Hand Building
  • Pottery

Other

  • Animal Care (with Cows, Goats, Rabbits & Sheep)
  • Nature (Environmental Exploration of Plant, Animal & Fish Identification)
  • Cooking
  • Rocketry
  • Robotics
  • Music (Piano, Guitar, Drums, bass)
  • Creative Writing
  • Chess
  • Mindfulness/Meditation

Dance & Theater

Our Dance studio features air mirrors, ballet bars, aerobic steps, stereo system and keyboard. Our Theatre program guarantees a part for everyone interested, with a musical performed each session, including the play for visiting day’s Festival of the Arts.

  • DANCE: Hip Hop, Jazz, Modern, Ballet, Lyrical / Contemporary, Tik Tok Dances
  • THEATER: Acting, Drama/Skits, Singing & Musicals- with a full indoor stage
  • Costume Class
  • Theatre Tech Class