Camp Nebagamon

Last night, we ended the first week of second session with our Sunday night Council Fire. Every week we gather as a Camp Family at the Council Fire Ring to light a large bonfire and watch a presentation on one of our camp values. This week, a Senior Counselor shared about the value of smiling…

It was the haziest of times, it was the brightest of times… Here in beautiful Lake Nebagamon, we’re enjoying a sunny, bluebird day. We expect days like this at camp. Days when we can be outside playing, exploring, venturing into the wilderness. But this session didn’t start that way. A situation totally out of our…

Welcome to our very first second session summer update of our 97th camping season. At this point, every camper who was supposed to arrive at camp today has arrived safely!  As you read this, the energy around camp is electric. Our eight weekers, coming off a super fun changeover field trip yesterday, have been phenomenal…

Just like that, first session has flashed before our eyes. As the buses left camp, turning from Range Road onto County Road B this morning, the last image that caught our four-week campers’ eyes was a painted sign with a campfire and the words Keep The Fires Burning.  Keep The Fires Burning, a phrase dating…

Camp Nebagamon is a place shrouded in myth. We speak of counselors from years past as giants and tell stories of the heroic trippers of days gone by. We reminisce on incomparable Cruiser Days and share sagas about our epic adventures in the wilderness. Somewhere in our collective memory, camp stories turn to legends and…

One of our core values here at Camp Nebagamon is stewardship. Campers learn to take care of the world around them through so many of our programs. Stewardship is practiced in simple acts every day of the summer. Campers undertake group responsibilities in the cabin, police their campsites for trash before leaving them for the…

We’ve got a philosophy here at Camp Nebagamon that magic can and should happen anytime, anywhere, and in abundance. Of course, camp magic occurs on its own, naturally, in the cabins, at projects, during free time, and out on trail. And it’s plentiful at big, scheduled events like Paul Bunyan Day, our first session competition…

Yesterday was Independence Day. That’s right… July 3rd! To line up with the Village of Lake Nebagamon’s fireworks display, we chose to move all of our festivities a day early this year. Independence Day is always a highlight of the summer. What’s not to love? We pack the day with excitement, and even have apple…

As it has been across the country, the Northwoods are a little hot and humid right now. Granted, it’s all relative – the temps have touched the mid-to-high 80s, which pales in comparison to the rest of the country. So we’ve been working to beat the heat as much as we can, getting kids in…

The weekly rhythm of Camp Nebagamon always starts strong on Monday evening. Every week, cabin groups head out into the woods with a box of food and a cast iron dutch oven to cook their dinner over an open fire. Cabin Cookout is a Nebagamon staple – it helps cabin groups work together, it allows…