https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-share-your-time-talents-knowledge

It was seven years ago when I attended my first ACA National Conference in sunny Orlando. Seven years ago when I showed up not even knowing what region/section I belonged to. Seven years since I was...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg

“We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. When I review ACA’s enrollment and business data (see page 44), I think of this quote by MLK. The...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/movies-you-dont-want-see-no-water-or-no-water-out

The Producers At camp, two facilities crises are truly "show stoppers." Hands down, the first is "no water." The old saying "You only want a drink when the well runs dry" couldn't be more true...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/creating-maintaining-healthy-camp-environment-strategies-camp-staff

As summer begins and all those carefully recruited campers begin to arrive, camp professionals often revisit orientation to assess if they've adequately prepared staff to handle various aspects of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/aquatic-safety-staff

It's a bright, sunny, warm day and you and your friends have the next twenty-four hours off. Not far from camp, about an hour away, is a remote yet popular swimming area where you can hang out, swim...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/ways-make-camp-memorable

Building a warm rapport with the campers in your group as well as the coworkers you live and work with day to day is the single most important way to positively impact the camp experience for...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-counseling-twenty-first-century-connecting-disconnected

Throughout the year, Camping Magazine publishes articles for full-time camp professionals. Once a year, it is written specifically for you — the camp staff who are on the front lines doing...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/summer-camps-popular-culture

"Hey, you must be the short, depressed kid we ordered. Glad you made it." — Meatballs, 1979 (Reitman) I highly doubt that camping pioneers such as Ernest Balch or Frederick Gunn would...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/always-thank-bus-driverand-other-words-wisdom-all-campers-ill-never-meet

On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I contemplated the unthinkable: retirement. Not that I am anywhere near ready to conclude my career, but I now know what before I refused to acknowledge: Some...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/gumption-grown-here-how-adventure-camps-help-adults-youth-toughen

There was a day when it was thought that being an American and having "gumption" went hand in hand. As Dennis R. Rader writes in Learning Redefined: Changing the Images that Guide the Process...