Preparing Your Child for Overnight Camp

If your son is a new camper, there is a question in your son’s family profile under Camper Information that asks about a cabin mate request. We will only grant the request if both parties put each other’s name on the form. Also, we will not put more than two friends together in a cabin.

If your son is a returning camper, we do not grant cabin mate requests. We are a small camp and know that after the first summer, each camper has become part of the William Lawrence Camp family and knows enough campers to be comfortable with other returners from the previous summer. This also allows everyone to cast a wider net of friends and include others into their social group.

Campers list their top three priority activities prior to coming to camp each summer via their family profile. Our Program Director pre-assigns these activities each session to ensure that each camper gets the activities they want. If a camper changes their mind once they are at camp, they can change their pre-assigned activity during activity sign-ups with their Unit Leader.

All campers can participate in most activities. The only activities with restrictions are Skeet Shooting and Wakeboarding. Those are reserved for the Senior Unit only. Also, campers must be a Red Cross Level 4 swimmer to participate in Waterskiing. Each camper has a swim evaluation on the first day they are at camp in order to assign them a swim level. Campers are able to retake their swim evaluation whenever they like if they believe they should be at a higher swim level.