Summer Resident Camp

Cabins Life

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Community

Coming to Camp Hazen YMCA is one of the most important choices you'll ever make.  Living in our camp community is a unique and enthralling experience.  We strive to make every single camper's time here at Hazen the most memorable part of their year.

From the minute campers arrive, they'll be immersed in the 'Hazen way'.  It feels great to be welcomed to a place like you've been here forever.  To walk into your cabin for the first time and meet your counselors and then to get to know everyone in your village is a one of life's greatest feelings!

Our camp is divided into 5 villages - clusters of similar age cabins:

Junianta younger boys (grades 3 though 6)
Sachem   older boys (grades 7 through 9)
Mosakwa younger girls (grades 3 through 6)
Tamarack older girls (grades 7 through 9)
Onandaga teen boys and girls (10th grade)

Campers are able to request having a friend in their cabin when they register.

Living & Dining Camp Style

Campers will enjoy a unique living experience in our clean, modern and spacious cabins. Living with eight campers and two counselors adds to the fun, spirit, and friendship of the summer experience.

Cabin life is crucial in our view...we spend a great deal of time and attention in training and supporting the cabin counselors. The cabin group is like "family" at camp and it is important that everyone is part of the family while here.

Each day is a lesson in responsibility and personal growth. Counselors guide the campers in cabin clean-up, observance of the schedule, and decision-making in daily activities.  Evenings are spent with the cabin or village group in a variety of exciting games, campfires, or all-camp events, and end back in the cabin with a counselor-led "cabin chat." Topics range from the daily activities to environmental issues, and from personal values to future dreams.