Best Summer Camps In Wisconsin

What’s better than kids enjoying their childhood while learning some valuable life lessons? For years, summer camps have been a true American tradition and a life-changing experience for kids. Summer camps provide significant benefits for kids. They combine love, laughter, social, and leadership skills in one place. With Wisconsin’s lush forests and shimmering lakes, it’s a major attraction for its outstanding summer camps. Read our guide below on the top Wisconsin summer camps

Top Summer Camps in Wisconsin

  • Northern Wisconsin, WI

  • Ages 8-16

  • Boys

Founded in 1904 through the Chicago Lab School, Camp Highlands is one of the oldest boys’ camps in the country. We’re a secular camp that offers a true wilderness experience through traditional activities like canoeing, archery, baseball, football, and riflery....

  • Rhinelander, WI

  • Ages 8-18

  • Boys

Camp Horseshoe is everything a boy could ever want out of summer AND so much more! Our dynamic program offers premier athletics, awesome outdoor adventure, exceptional water sports and extraordinary tripping programs. Add that to our never-ending line-up of innovative...

  • Eagle River, WI

  • Boys

Everyone who comes to camp is a part of our family from day one. We help our campers accomplish their goals and grow into impactful members of the community. All types of boys can succeed at camp.

Menominee attracts passionate...

  • Eagle River, WI

  • Ages 7-16

  • Girls

Together with Towering Pines for boys (just down the road), the Jordan family has been providing kids with one great summer after another for more than 79 years. At Camp Woodland we believe that girls can do anything. We discover...

  • Northwoods, WI

  • Ages 6-17

  • Coed

Swift Nature Camp is a Wisconsin summer camp for boys and girls ages 6–17, combining classic overnight camp adventures with hands-on experiences in nature. Campers swim, canoe, craft, explore the Nature Center, and care for animals in the Camp Zoo...

  • Eagle River, WI

  • Girls

Camp Nicolet is one of the girls-only traditional resident camps in Eagle River, Wisconsin. The camp offers a unique experience for your girls, in which they enjoy a multitude of fun activities, make lifetime friends, and have the best memories...

  • Northwood, WI

  • Ages 7-16

  • Boys

Kawaga is a place for kids to be kids. Being Kawaga is a way of life that extends beyond the weeks at camp and can only be experienced from a summer on The Shores.

As our founder stated, “The overarching...

  • Wisconsin's Northwoods, WI

  • Ages 7-16

  • Boys

Your son will spend a summer with no phone and no internet. He’ll be immersed in Wisconsin’s beautiful Northwoods. Watching television is replaced with watching a golden moon rise over the shores of Trout Lake. By the end of the...

  • Mellen, WI

  • Coed

Camp Eagle Ridge, located in Mellen, Wisconsin, is a co-ed leadership camp full of fun times, activities, and leadership training and opportunities. This unique camp combines a traditional summer camp experience with over 40 different leadership workshops that focus on...