We are an Adirondacks summer camp for children ages 8-14, located in the mountains outside Lake Placid, NY.
Here children experience the natural world and an array of creative and challenging activities in a simple, unhurried, child-centered environment.
The leadership at the camp, at both the very top and intermediate levels, simply could not be better: strong but warm, loving, and knowledgeable. Wow! (and we’ve worked with many, many educators/teachers).
As Helen Haskell, former Camp Director, wrote many decades ago, “ We all want the good life for our children. We wish youngsters to progress steadily towards independence, maturity, and confident responsibility with a chance for unhurried individual growth, good health, and happiness along the way.” Amongst the unrest, uncertainty, and instability of the last […]
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Dear Friends and Families: We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Camp Treetops Director Karen Culpepper as she begins her transition toward retirement at the end of summer 2022. For over three decades, Karen has worked tirelessly both as a stalwart of Camp, as well as on behalf of the institution as a […]
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