Summer Camps
248.651.7810
Each summer Oakland Township Parks offers instructional and fun summer camps including Explore Archery, Outdoor Skills and Wild Kids of Lost Lake!
Outdoor Skills Camp (Grades 5-9)
Monday-Friday, July 23-27, 2018
10am - 12:30pm
This camp introduces a variety of fun outdoor activities including archery, kayaking, and fishing (catch and release). Course also covers basic survival skills like reading a map and recognizing your surroundings, fire starting, shelter building, obtaining drinkable water, wild plant identification and animal observation.
Resident: $100, Non-resident: $120
Next Step Outdoor Skills Camp (Grades 5-9)
Monday-Friday, August 6-10, 2018
10am-12:30pm
An extension of Outdoor Skills Camp, activities range from archery refresher skills through target shooting games and beginning bow hunting, gun safety including handling and basic shooting skills at the Bald Mountain Gun Range (taught by NRA certified instructor), kayaking and fishing, animal identification and tracking, plant identification and edibles, land navigation, and a Survival Day finale.
Prerequisite: Either have taken our Basic Outdoor Survival Skill Camp or similar course.
Resident: $100, Non-resident: $120
Explore Archery Camp
Monday - Friday, July 9 - 13, 2018
10am-12Noon
Explore Archery is a new and innovative archery education program focused on introducing beginners to the lifelong sport of archery. In Explore Archery, campers earn achievement awards through active participation in individual and team building activities that require fundamental skills, a competitive edge and a bit of creativity and not based on campers' athletic abilities or their capabilities to shoot a perfect score. It is fun, rewarding, and developmentally progressive and most important - safe.
Wild Kids of Lost Lake Summer Camp
Monday-Friday, July 30 - August 3
10am-3pm
For the true park experience, you need to join us for our Wild Kids of Lost Lake summer camp! This weeklong day camp features five themed days inundated with fun. Whether it's casting a line out into the lake, wading through the swampland in search of frogs and snakes, concocting wacky experiments inside or simply learing how to climb a tree we have something for everyone in this adventure of a week. This camp will feature a large variety of scientific and educaitonal activities. We will picnic outside whenever the weather permits so bring a bagged lunch to keep your little scientist fueled so they can continue inspecting insects beneath stereoscopes, dodging water balloons and enjoying the beautiful surroundings of Lost Lake.
Residents $140; Non-residents $170
Register for Wild Kids at DHNP, 248-656-0999.
Rochester Soccer Club Summer Instructional Soccer Camps
Monday-Friday, July 9-13 or July 16-20 or July 23-27
1-2:30pm 5-12 yrs
1:30-2:30 3-4 yrs