Summer Camps in Southern Vermont, VT

Ages 5–12

A weekday summer day camp at Okemo's Jackson Gore base area for ages 5 to 12, with daily indoor and outdoor activities, arts and crafts, swimming, organized games and a different theme each week. Camp starts June 22, 2026, and is split into Cheeky Chipmunks (5 to 7) and Burly Bears (8 to 12).

As published: 2026: $412 per week or $105 per day (both age groups)

Ages 6–15

Camp Green Mountain is a YMCA-run municipal day camp at the Bennington Recreation Center for children entering grades 1–9, combining STEAM activities, swim time, field/group games, and field trips, with the Town of Bennington subsidizing part of the weekly cost.

As published: $70 per one-week session (the Town of Bennington subsidizes an additional $29 per child per one-week session)

A residential summer music school in Weston with a Junior Session for students in grades 4-8, a Senior Session for high schoolers, and adult workshops, taught by professional musicians who live on campus. The Junior Session is listed for August 14-29, 2027, and the school marks its 75th anniversary in summer 2027.

As published: Junior Session $4,200 all-inclusive (stated for summer 2026; 2027 price not seen); financial aid for demonstrated need

Ages 3–14

Merck Forest & Farmland Center runs weekly nature-immersion day camps on its forest and working farm in Rupert. Programs are grouped by age: Little Sprouts (3-5), Little Oaks (6-8), Big Oaks (9-11) and Crew Camp (12-14), with Crew Camp focused on property-improvement projects and backcountry skills. Registration closes 30 days before each session.

As published: 2026: Little Sprouts $175 per session; Little Oaks, Big Oaks and Crew Camp listed as "From $285" per week-long session. Exact tuition beyond these figures is Not published on the camp pages.

Grades 1 to 6 (about ages 5–11)

A weekday summer day camp run by Mount Snow in the Green Mountain National Forest, led by what the resort calls "expert adventurers," with hiking, biking, swimming, golfing, chairlift rides, and arts and crafts. Open June 22 to August 28, 2026, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with groups by grade (Hawks 1-2, Eagles 3-4, Falcons 5-6).

As published: Not published on the camp page (5-pack and 10-pack options are referenced but no prices shown)

Ages 3–17

Circus camps at the New England Center for Circus Arts covering aerials, acrobatics, juggling, clowning and trampoline, with half-day and full-day options. 2027 youth camps run June to August, including Teen Camp, Advanced Performance Camp and Flying Trapeze Camps.

As published: 2027: Teen Camp, Advanced Performance Camp and Flying Trapeze Camps $410/week full day; general camps "price varies depending on the week"; half-day summer price not published

$1,335–$5,145/session

Night Eagle is a small, deliberately primitive wilderness camp for boys ages 10–14 in Wallingford, in Vermont's Green Mountains, where campers live in Lakota-style tipis and spend their days on survival and bushcraft skills — fire-making, tracking, shelter-building — rather than conventional camp amenities.

As published: 2026 rates: 1 week $1,335; 2 weeks $2,465; 3 weeks $3,290; 4 weeks $3,910; 6 weeks $5,145

Ages 7–12

Otter Day Camp is one of Vermont Wilderness School's longest-running programs, a nature- and wilderness-skills day camp for ages 7–12 held at Fort Dummer State Park in Brattleboro, with a published staff-to-camper ratio and named camp leadership.

As published: $390 / $449 / $507 (2025-season weekly tiers); $75-per-child weekly deposit required

The Southern Vermont Arts Center, a pastoral arts campus with galleries, a theater, and sculpture gardens, runs summer camps spanning PreK through grade 12, covering music, dance, and visual-arts themes such as its "Space Camp" and "Hip Hop Dance & Design" sessions.

As published: Not published

Ages 3–10

Mountain Camp is Stratton Mountain Resort's summer day camp for ages 3–10, running weekly from June through August with mountain-exploration, arts/science, and sports themes, plus separate add-on mountain-biking and junior tennis camp offerings — a resort amenity program rather than a standalone traditional camp.

As published: Not published — the resort's summer-camps page could not be retrieved directly (access error); published third-party-indexed info shows 5-day Mountain Camps run weekly June 15–Aug 28, 2026, but exact per-week price was not confirmed from the camp's own site. (For comparison, Stratton's separately priced Junior Tennis Camp lists $550 for a 5-day full-day session and $375 for 5-day half-day, per site-indexed content — this is a different, add-on program, not the general Mountain Camp rate)

Ages 12–17

A residential (with day-student option on past rate sheets) summer arts program on The Putney School campus: multi-week teen workshops for ages 14 to 17 and a one-week middle school exploration for ages 12 to 13, with studio, performing and writing classes taught by working artists. The 2027 Teen Program instructor directory is posted and 2027 applications are listed as coming soon.

As published: 2027 rates not published (the Dates, Rates page still shows 2025: 3-week teen boarding $7,500, day $3,500; 1-week intensive boarding $2,650, day $1,300)

Ages 11–17 · $700–$1,050/week

A one-week (July 2026) specialty soccer camp for ages 11–17 held on the Vermont Academy campus in Saxtons River, run in partnership with the Spanish league LaLiga and staffed by UEFA-certified coaches, with day and boarding options — a single-sport add-on program rather than a full-summer traditional camp.

As published: LaLiga Soccer Camp (one week, July 19–24, 2026): Day camper $700 (includes training sessions and lunch); Boarding camper $1,050 (includes housing, meals, activities). (Vermont Academy's other summer offerings — VAMS Mountain Bike Camp, Solstice Project — did not have published pricing on the pages accessed)