Register for Camp St. Croix
Eligibility
As you get ready for registration, please make sure your child meets our Participant Requirements.
Registration
Registration for 2025 Overnight Camp is now open.
2025 Camp offerings are subject to change. Unless noted otherwise, each timeframe has options for boys and girls.
Assistance
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Summer Sampler
Ages 7–9
Our Summer Samplers experience three days, two nights or four days, three nights, of Camp St. Croix fun! They get to sample many different traditional camp activities and learn if they are ready for a full week the following summer.
3 days | $555
- June 8–10
4 days | $740
- June 29–July 2
One Week Traditional
5 days | Ages 7–14 | $925
Experience fun-filled days that blend a blend cabin group and camper’s choice activities. Evenings are filled with all camp games, reflections, and campfires with their cabin groups.
- June 8–12
Pioneers & Trailblazers
5 days | Ages 7–12 | $925
Our youngest campers, ages 6–9, will form our Pioneer Unit. Returning campers and/or those ages 9–12, will be placed in our Trailblazer Unit. Units form extended families with unit coordinators organizing games and activities throughout the week. While Pioneers spend all nights at camp in their cabin, Trailblazers camp out in tents for one night at one of Croix’s on-property camp sites.
- June 22–26
- July 6–10
- July 13–17
- July 20–24
- July 27–31
- August 3–7
Taste of Croix
5 days | Ages 10–14 | $950
In addition to traditional camp activities, TOC participants spend each afternoon trying one of our specialty camp programs — including canoeing, sailing, and rock climbing — and also have an advanced overnight experience at one of our special sites on the property.
- June 22–26
- July 6–10
- July 13–17
- July 20–24
- July 27–31
- August 3–7
Specialty Camps
Wranglers Horse Camp
12 days | Ages 12–16 | $2,235
Campers in our horse program develop from novice riders to young
adults experienced in many aspects of equine care, grooming,
riding, and training.
Wranglers, with us for two weeks, spend more time in activities
besides riding such as grooming and training; they spend their
weekend at Pine Lake Pastures camping, riding, and learning about
advanced horse care.
Overnight horse camp for younger ages will not be offered at Camp
St. Croix. Please visit Camp Icaghowan for other overnight horse
camp experiences.
- July 13–24
Farm and Garden Camp
5 days | Ages 9–13 | $945
Through this one week camp, participants will not only enjoy the traditional aspects of camp, but also spend time on our farm! They’ll experience first-hand the day-to-day operations of a working farm, maintain the high tunnels, harvest produce, and work with the animals. They will have the opportunity to harvest produce for the dining hall, and learn how the leftovers are composted and returned to the soil to grow more vegetables next year.
Campers can look forward to a one night “Farm Stay” where they will camp out on the farm and prepare their meals with produce harvested with their own hands! Campers will be able to witness first-hand how flavorful fruits and vegetables are when they are grown locally and picked at the peak of harvest. During this Farm Stay, campers will learn the skills sets needed to identify ripe vegetables, how to harvest them, and the cooking techniques required to complete the process of learning to eat what we grow.
- July 20–24
- July 27–31
- August 3–7
Canoe Camp
For over a century, St. Croix campers have paddled some of the most gorgeous waterways in North America. It’s a tradition we carry on to this day.
Frontiers
5 days | Ages 11–15 | $990
Our Frontiers campers learn the basics of canoe tripping before they spend two days and one-night camping and paddling the lower St. Croix River. For most of our Frontiers, it is their first time traveling by canoe.
- June 22–26
- July 6–10
- July 13–17
Voyageurs
12 days | Ages 12–16 | $2,010
Our Voyageur campers spend the first few days at camp reviewing their paddling and river safety skills, then they will spend eight days and seven nights on the Namekagon and St. Croix rivers.
- June 29–July 10
- July 27–August 7
Sailing Camp
On Lake St. Croix, the mile-wide portion of river alongside which Camp St. Croix sits, our campers gain skills that can take them anywhere.
First Mates
5 days | Ages 11–15 | $990
The First Mates introduces participants to basic sailing skills and techniques for optimist-class boats. First Mates spend a portion of each day sailing and the rest of their time participating in traditional camp activities.
- June 22–26
- July 6–10
- July 27–31
Windjammers
12 days | Ages 12–16 | $2,235
Our Windjammers graduate to 420s and a variety of keelboats,
experiencing expert training in partnership with White Bear Sailing
School, a regionally renowned youth sailing academy, as well as
getting the opportunity to sail for four days on the waters of Lake
Superior, surrounding the Apostle Islands, through our partnership
with All Hands Sailing in Bayfield, WI.
- June 29–July 10
- July 13–24
Rock Climbing Camps
Rockers
5 days | Ages 11–15 | $1,115
Rockers learn basic climbing techniques and safety protocols at Camp St. Croix’s climbing facilities. Midway through their week, Rockers take part in an overnight camping trip to Taylors Falls for some classic outdoor top-rope climbing with Vertical Endeavors Guided Adventures.
- June 22–26
- July 6–10
- July 13–17
Cliffhangers
12 days | Ages 12–16 | $2,120
Cliffhangers similarly begin with safety and experience training at the camp before hitting the trail for five days and four nights to experience the crags of Devil’s Lake State Park. Our partners at Vertical Endeavors Guided Adventures facilitate all our outdoor climbing.
- July 13–24
- July 27–August 7
Leadership Development Program (LDP)
The Leadership Development Program, LDP, is our leadership progression for teens. LDP instructors teach participants skills in group facilitation and leadership, technical outdoor skills, and build upon participants confidence, problem solving and decision making, and collaboration skills to create well rounded leaders. Campers of all genders may share cabins and tents throughout this program at Croix.
Please direct any questions about our LDP programming or application process to info@campstcroix.org.
Intro LDP
12 days | Ages 14–16 | $2,120
Our Introductory LDP program is open first come, first serve, to
teens ages 14–16. This program follows our standard program registration process.
- June 29–July 10 (All Gender)
- July 27–August 7 (All Gender)
Advanced LDP
26 days | Ages 16–18 | $3,775
Our Advanced LDP program, in partnership with YMCA Camp Menogyn, requires a completed application, and limited space is available. Priority deadline for applications is February 1, 2025, with rolling application to follow. Space is not guaranteed for all applicants.
- July 13–August 7 (All Gender)
BOLD GOLD
Tier I – Canoe
5 days | Ages 11–15 | $925
B/G Tier I canoers will spend two days, one night on the St. Croix river canoeing, along with a range of traditional camp and leadership development activities while in camp.
- June 22–26
- July 20–24
- July 27–31
Tier I – Climb
5 days | Ages 11–15 | $925
B/G Tier I climbers will spend two days, one night at MN Interstate State Park, natural climbing with leadership from Vertical Endeavors Guided Adventures, climbing and high ropes experiences, traditional camp, and leadership development activities while in camp.
- June 22–26
- August 3–7
Tier II – Canoe and Climb
12 days | Ages 13–16 | $2,010
B/G Tier 2 canoe and climb campers will spend four days, three nights on the St. Croix River canoeing and camping. They will also spend a day natural climbing at MN Interstate State Park. They will spend the remainder of their time at camp doing traditional camp, leadership development, and high ropes activities on our challenge courses.
- July 13–24
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