Saturday, March 19, 2005
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you loved summer camp as a kid, you can re-create that experience for yourself and your children at a family camp.
Budget Travel Magazine's March issue lists 50 "family camps" where parents can bunk with their kids for a week or more of color war, campfires, roasting marshmallows, fishing, cookouts and all the other fun stuff that comes with summer camp. But today's family camps also teach skills and offer recreation that your sleepaway camp of 25 or 30 years ago didn't have -- everything from stilt-walking to African drumming.
Best of all, Budget Travel says the camps are remarkably affordable when compared with other types of family vacations. Many family camps cost under $1,000 a week for the whole family, while none costs more than $1,000 an adult. Fees cover activities, meals and basic accommodations.
The camps listed in Budget Travel range from Berkeley Tuolumne Camp in the Stanislaus National Forest just outside Yosemite National Park, www.berkeleycamps.com, to the Farm & amp; Wilderness Camp in Plymouth, Vt., www.fandw.org. Now is the time to book stays for this summer, as slots tend to fill up well in advance at many facilities.
For more information, visit www.msnbc.msn.com.