2023 Weeks

Week 1: May 28 – June 3 – Western

• Saddle up partners! Lawlessness is ragging, dancing has ceased, and causing all taverns to shut their shutters and run to the caverns. Camp Carter is looking for new sheriffs in town to bring order and safety back to its people!

Week 2: June 4 – June 7 – Mini Adventure Camp

• Not quite ready for a full session of Overnight Camp? Mini Overnight Camp is designed to introduce first time campers, ages 6-8, to the traditions and excitement of overnight camp. These campers attend camp for three days and two nights and will get an introduction to camp life, activities, and traditions.

Week 3: June 11 – June 17 – Heroes

• While participating in the same activities as the other weeks of Overnight Camp, this is a week of camp is dedicated to military campers.

Week 4: June 18 – June 24 – Fantasy

• Be everything you want to be at camp—a wizard, hobbit, a donkey, ogre, princess, prince, gingerbread man, 3-legged half faun half man, or any other wild creature you can imagine! This week we will creatively enter into a world of imagination and exploration

Week 5: June 25 – July 1 – Color Craze

• Color Craze is week of fun cabins-to-cabins competition to see which color team becomes the top of top teams among the legends of Camp Carter!

Week 6: July 5 – July 8 – Mini Adventure Camp

• Not quite ready for a full session of Overnight Camp? Mini Overnight Camp is designed to introduce first time campers, ages 6-8, to the traditions and excitement of overnight camp. These campers attend camp for three days and two nights and will get an introduction to camp life, activities, and traditions.

Week 7: July 9 – July 15 – Super Hero

• The ageless battle between heroes and villains continues at camp—dun dun dun! Whether DC, Marvel, or a completely wild creation, come join forces as a hero bound to compete and defeat the villains that are wreaking havoc around camp!

Week 8: July 16 – July 22 – Pirates

• The winds are raging, the waves are crashing, and the skies are pouring! Every pirate crew is braving the obstacles ahead to find, capture, and return the hidden treasure that has yet to be found at Camp Carter. Will you surpass the great Jack Sparrow, Captain Hook, Captain Barbosa, Dread Pirate Roberts, or other timeless pirates that have yet to discover the hidden riches?

Week 9: July 23 – July 29 – Survivor

• Survivor Week…the week among all weeks! This is the longest standing week in Camp Carter history! For over the past 20 years, we have sought to see which team is the team the most fit to survive the wildest of competitions and challenges! Between learning to build natural campfires, and shelters to racing around camp to complete the challenges before the other teams even have a chance to blink! This week is legendary

Week 10: July 30 – August 5 – Around the World

• All around the world, there are jaw-dropping unseen sights that will blow your imagination out of the water! Cultures, foods, people, sceneries, and more that are just waiting to be discovered. Join us as we venture through the oceans, deserts, forests, and more!

Themes are used to provide a little variety each week for campers that are attending multiple weeks. YMCA Camp Carter is a very traditional camp with lots of activities. Themes are not meant to suggest that the week is a specialty camp.