Camps with transportation in Vermont

Ages 5–12 · $345/week

Common Ground Center, a year-round nonprofit facility in Starksboro, runs adventure day camps for children in grades K-6 during school vacation weeks, including a one-week summer camp for campers from the Addison and Chittenden County region. Summer activities include archery, tennis, swimming, creek and pond exploring, gardening, cooking and music. Teens ages 13-14 can apply as counselors in training.

As published: 2026 Summer Adventure Camp $345 per child, with a $25 sibling discount; bus transportation when applicable is $50.

North Branch Nature Center runs outdoor day camps in the forests and fields around the center in Montpelier, with teacher-naturalists leading weekly themed camps for children from PreK through 7th grade. Camps hike to a "base camp" each day, with wading and water exploration but no swimming. The center also offers Camp BranchOUT, a nature-based day camp for queer and gender creative kids ages 10-12 in collaboration with Outright Vermont.

As published: Not published on the camp page (registration is through a lottery; financial support packages are based on household income). Aftercare is offered for PreK through 3rd grade camps.

Ages 6–13 · $495–$545/week

Rugged Adventures is an outdoor adventure camp based in Stowe, founded in 2010 and run by professional educators, offering both day camps and overnight adventure trips with hiking, biking, and swimming in the Green Mountains.

As published: "Maximum age for overnights is 13."

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 6–16 · $1,345–$2,465/session

Operated by the Greater Burlington YMCA, Camp Abnaki is a resident and day camp for boys on Lake Champlain in North Hero with over 125 years of history, structured age-graded "villages" with published low camper-to-staff cabin ratios (as tight as 3:1 for the youngest campers), and a stated emphasis on background-checked staff and a 10-day training program.

As published: 2027 rates: Two-week session $2,265 (lock-in rate $2,180); one-week session $1,345 (lock-in rate $1,295); specialty programs (sailing, magic/D&D, fishing) $2,365–$2,465. $200 non-refundable deposit per session; includes $25–$45 camp-store credit