Ijams Park is running a summer camp for adults, and Saturday night you sleep in a tent
Re-Discovery Camp is three days of caving, kayaking, naturalist hikes and campfire s'mores for anyone eighteen and up. If that's a bigger commitment than your weekend allows, the park's free Saturday storytelling is still on.
- Fri–Sun Aug 21–23
- Re-Discovery Camp · 18 and over
- Full weekend
- $300 · Friday evening through Sunday
- Saturday–Sunday only
- $210 · Navitat treetop add-on +$35
- Bring
- A tent and sleeping pad — the park can lend gear
- Sat Aug 22
- Storytelling at the Nature Playscape · 10 AM – noon · free
- Sun Aug 23
- Self Care Sunday Yoga with Hope Irwin · 11:30 AM

Somewhere along the way, summer camp became a thing that only happens to people under twelve. Ijams Park has decided that was an oversight. Re-Discovery Camp runs Friday evening through Sunday afternoon and is open to anyone eighteen and older — bring a partner, bring a friend, or come alone and meet the rest of the cabin.
What three days actually looks like
Friday opens with dinner and an evening choice of caving or a herping hike — that's going out after dark to find frogs and snakes, and it is exactly as good as it sounds. Saturday stacks welcome games, animal ambassador visits, arts and crafts, wilderness skills, and kayaking, then puts everyone around a campfire with s'mores. Saturday night you sleep on the grounds under the trees; bring a tent and a sleeping pad, or ask and the park will sort out gear. Sunday is breakfast, then yoga or a swim in the quarry, a naturalist hike, lunch, and an optional run through the treetops on the Navitat course.
The cost, plainly
The full weekend is $300 a person and the Saturday-to-Sunday version is $210, with the treetop add-on another $35. That covers Friday dinner, Saturday dinner and s'mores, and Sunday breakfast and lunch — Saturday's breakfast and lunch are on you. Registration runs through the park's camp registration site, and questions go to publicprograms@ijams.org.
If a whole weekend is too much weekend
The park's standing Saturday storytelling runs 10 to noon at the Nature Playscape out at Mead's Quarry, and it's free — small kids, blankets, and somebody reading out loud under the trees. Sunday, Hope Irwin's Self Care Sunday yoga starts at 11:30. Neither one asks anything of you but showing up.






