Starting the camp search can feel overwhelming. Every camp promises a warm, welcoming community where kids make friends and try new activities, and by the third website, those words have stopped registering. Numbers are harder to fake. If you’re trying to decide whether a boys summer camp is right for […]
No boy has ever regretted coming back for his last summer as a camper. I’ve said that to a number of families this fall, and I’ll stand behind it. The opposite is another story. Plenty of alumni will tell you that skipping their Pine Manor summer is one of the […]
At the top of our climbing tower, clipped into the zip line and looking down at a drop that seemed much smaller from the ground, a boy’s heart pounds exactly the way it does in a haunted house. The difference is what happens next. In a haunted house, the zombie […]
After his son’s first summer at North Star, a dad called me with a story I have not been able to shake. Before camp, the boy woke up early every morning, especially on the weekends, not because he was rested or excited about the day, but because his brain had […]
Spain’s World Cup captain spent three summers at sleepaway camp in the US. In 2010, Rodri was a 14-year-old in Atlético Madrid’s academy when his parents sent him to Incarnation Camp in Connecticut. They wanted him to have a summer away from football, knowing it was a luxury their gifted […]
Beth and I are so excited to share that our family grew by one! Baby girl Cameron arrived on September 3, three and a half weeks early. Mom and baby are both doing great, and Laney is an amazing big sister who is completely smitten. Cam’s early arrival meant a […]
The final night at North Star Camp for Boys in Wisconsin brings a Keylog Ceremony, a Steak Dinner, and a lot of happy tears. Here is how a summer ends.
A look inside Espionage night and the Green-White Egg Marathon at North Star Camp, an overnight boys summer camp in the Wisconsin Northwoods.
Once a summer, North Star Games turns this Wisconsin boys camp into an all-day Olympics, with four constellation teams competing dawn to dinner.
At North Star Camp in Wisconsin, the Four Star Fellowship brings boys north for a week that can change a life. This is Ron’s story, in his words.
Swim tests, dodgeball, and a new cabin community: see what the first full day at North Star Camp for Boys in the Wisconsin Northwoods is really like.
