Camps with cooking in Maine

Ages 4–16 · $380–$575/week

A private school's day-camp division in South Berwick spanning STEAM, arts, and sports programming across a wide age range (3–18), taught by "Berwick faculty and staff, plus visiting professionals"; being embedded in an established private school gives it institutional credibility but the program itself has little independent public review presence.

As published: Day Camp: $380–$475/week; Enrichment Programs: $420–$575/week; Sports Camps: $475/week; CIT Program: $400 (flat); Extended Care $75/week or $20 drop-in; Transportation $85/week — all per-week as published

Ages 8–16

A small nonprofit overnight camp for girls on 84-acre Twigg Farm in Union, Maine, with a private lakefront on Seven Tree Pond, gardens, art and a flexible schedule. Sessions have just 8 to 20 campers.

As published: 2027: Session 1 (Jun 25-Jul 2, grades 4-6) $2,285; Session 2 (Jul 5-17, grades 6-8) $3,965; Session 3 (Jul 24-30, grades 3-5) $1,960; Session 4 (Aug 1-13, grades 7-9) $3,965; financial assistance available; $100 referral discount

Ages 7–16

A family-owned traditional co-ed sleepaway camp on Crescent Lake in Raymond, Maine, with a five-period day built around watersports, landsports and arts and crafts. It offers 2-week and 3.5-week sessions for boys and girls.

As published: 2027: 2-week session $6,200; 3.5-week session $9,300 (Session 1 Jun 26-Jul 10 or Jul 20; Session 2 Jul 23-Aug 6 or Aug 15); $2,500 deposit with enrollment, further $2,500 payments Nov 1 and Feb 1, balance May 1

Ages 8–16 · $5,200–$14,800/session

An arts-focused coed camp in Washington, ME (founded 1967 on a site with camp roots back to 1904) built around a free-choice activity model spanning visual arts, performing arts, circus, music, and culinary programs; the camp's own history page highlights an early, notable commitment to admitting campers of color and international campers, reinforcing its identity as an inclusive, creativity-first program rather than a traditional sports/outdoors camp.

As published: 2-week sessions: $4,900; 4-week sessions: $7,500 (Summer 2026 published rates)

A family camp weekend for children with limb loss or limb difference and their families, held at Pine Tree Camp on North Pond in Rome, Maine. Programming includes waterfront activities, an adventure day, adaptive sports, peer support groups, arts and crafts, and evening gatherings.

As published: 2026: $500 per person; program fee scholarships available; children 3 and under free

Ages 7–17

Girl Scouts of Maine's overnight camp on over 600 acres in the White Mountain foothills with a private waterfront on Adams Pond. Classic and specialty programs, including a horse program, run for one to several weeks.

As published: Not published on the pages read (the council points to a 2026 Camp Guide); $40 non-refundable registration deposit per session; non-members pay an extra fee that includes membership

Ages 7–15

A girls' overnight camp on East Pond in the Belgrade Lakes region of Smithfield, Maine, with team and individual sports, arts, culinary classes, dance, adventure trips and a lake and pool aquatics program. Sister camp to Camp Eastwood.

As published: 2027: Full Somer (Jun 24-Aug 10) $17,900; Half Somer (Jun 24-Jul 16 or Jul 19-Aug 10) $10,800; deposit $3,500 full, $2,500 half

Ages 7–15 · $18,000/season

A large (300-camper), well-resourced girls' camp on Echo Lake in Fayette on a 300+ acre campus, founded 1936, with a notably high stated camper-return rate (95%+); scale and stated retention together suggest a camp with a strong, loyal existing family base more than one relying on new-customer acquisition.

As published: Base tuition: $18,000 per full summer session (2027: June 26–Aug 11); additional Personal/Trip/Outing fee of $450

Ages 7–16 · $5,900–$17,900/session

A large, long-running (1922) coed traditional camp in Hartford with separate Kids/Teen/LIT program tracks and an explicitly international camper and staff base; the sheer scale of its online review footprint (by far the most of any camp in this list) signals a camp with substantial year-round marketing reach and a large annual enrollment.

As published: Kids Camp: Full Session (7 wks) $15,900 / Two-Week Rookie $5,900; Teen Camp: Full Session $16,900; LIT Full Session $17,900 — per-session, Summer 2027 published rates (priority-pricing discounts of $300–$500 apply through Sept 30)

Ages 3–14

Cape Elizabeth Community Services runs the town's municipal summer camp programs — Little Cubs (ages 3.8 to kindergarten), Adventure Camp (grades 1-6), and Teen Extreme (grades 7-8) — plus roughly 40 specialty camps, serving over 200 campers per week across seven weeks each summer on the town's school campuses and community center.

As published: Not published

Ages 6–12

A farm day camp where campers ride horses, walk goats, try goat milking, make cheese, jam and soap, and catch frogs. Runs nine Monday to Friday weeks, 8:30 am to 4:00 pm.

As published: $545 per camper per week (2026); early/late drop-off $15 per session

Ages 4–15 · $335–$500/week

Farm Camp is a day camp on the 626-acre Wolfe's Neck Center farm in Freeport, with age-based groups from age 4 through 15. Campers do farm chores, care for livestock, tend gardens and explore the forest, salt marsh and coast. Older groups include a cooking and farm-to-table program called C.H.E.F. and an optional overnight on the farm for Farmward Bound campers.

As published: 2026 weekly tuition, standard rate $335 to $410 and "Sustaining Tuition" rate $425 to $500 depending on age group. Counselor-in-training sessions are $200 to $290. Before care is $85 per week and after care is $68 per week. There is a $10 registration fee. Camp runs 9am to 4pm.

Ages 6–10 · $325/week

The Kennebec Estuary Land Trust and Brightfield School educators run a weekday nature day camp for ages 6 to 10, with drop-off at Brightfield School in Bath. Campers hike at places such as Thorne Head and Morse Mountain, learn to paddleboard, learn to clam and make clam chowder over a fire, and spend a beach day at Fort Popham. Registration is handled through Brightfield School.

As published: 2026: $325 per week, 9am to 3pm. Scholarships of $100 off are available.

Ages 5–18

A fully accessible, ACA-accredited camp on North Pond in Rome that has served Maine residents with developmental and physical disabilities since 1945, built around an unusually attentive 3:1 camper-to-counselor ratio and a stated policy of never turning away a camper for inability to pay — a mission-driven, nonprofit-run special-needs camp rather than a fee-maximizing commercial one.

As published: Not published as a dollar figure; site states "Full and partial tuition assistance is available. Pine Tree Camp has never turned away a camper due to inability to pay tuition"

Grades 1 to 9 (about ages 5–14)

Breakwater is an independent school in Portland whose enrichment center runs summer camps for rising 1st through 9th graders (the Maine Summer Camps listing describes one- to four-week sessions with arts, cuisines and cultures, recreation, circus, performing arts and overnight expeditions). Registration for summer 2026 opened in January 2026.

As published: Not published (see Summer 2026 catalog linked from the page)

Ages 7–16

A residential, all-girls full-season overnight camp in Poland, Maine, with sports, waterfront, equestrian, outdoor and arts programs. Tradition since 1911, with about 300 campers.

As published: 2027: full season (Jun 26-Aug 12) $18,200

Ages 5–15 · $350–$795/week

Tanglewood is a University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H camp founded in 1982 along the Ducktrap River in Lincolnville (near Camden), offering overnight sessions for ages 8-17 in STEM, archery, gardening, watershed and marine ecology, creative arts, drama, and wilderness skills, plus a Teen Leadership track for ages 14-17.

As published: $500-$1,000 per week, with financial aid available

Ages 7–16 · $1,067–$2,642/session

YMCA Camp of Maine is a coed overnight camp in Winthrop, Maine, with one- and two-week sessions, separate girls' and boys' villages, an Explorer's Camp for ages 7 to 9 and a Leader In Training program. Activities include waterfront, sports, outdoor life and creative arts. The camp states it was founded in 1915 and uses tiered tuition with a financial aid tier.

As published: 2027 tiered tuition: one-week session $1,067 to $1,334; two-week sessions $2,114 to $2,642; Explorer's Camp (ages 7 to 9) $534 to $668; Tier 4 is a variable rate for families with greater need