Find the Perfect Summer Program: 50+ Wisconsin Summer Camps for 2023!

As we eagerly anticipate spring and warmer weather, you might also find yourself doing a little summer planning. 

How can you keep your kids busy and engaged with learning or exploring, at least for part of their days, during summer break this year? Look no further! 

We’ve rounded up 50+ camps for almost any interest, from highly specialized camps to that traditional summer camp experience in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, and everywhere in between. Create a lifetime of memories of summer camp fun for the littlest family members to emerging young adults!

Every summer could hold something different for children looking for their summer home base to build memories and make friends at overnight and day camps.

Don’t delay! Register online! Some of these camps fill quickly!

Keep our Ultimate Summer Bucket List and 60+ Summertime Ideas for Things to Do at Home handy for those days the kids aren’t off at camp this summer.

And don’t forget to visit our calendar for all our community fun events!

2023 Featured Summer Camps

Building for Kids Children’s Museum, Appleton

The Building for Kids Children’s Museum offers week-long summer camps. Each week, campers will build new skills and explore different weekly themes, all while making new friends along the way. Themes include Robotics & Coding, Sculpture & Pottery, Music Makers, and so much more!

Attend all eight weeks or pick and choose which camps your child is most interested in. Half-day and full-day camps are available. Each day, campers will participate in facilitated programming based on the week’s theme as well as free play around the museum.

• Ages: 4K – 4th Grade

Wisconsin Swim Academy: Just Keep Swimming Day Camps

Registration is now open for Wisconsin Swim Academy’s Summer Day Camp! The week-long camp is available for half days or full days June 19-23, July 17-21, and August 14-18. Each week is themed with action-packed days, including special guests, swimming lessons (if enrolled for a full-day option), games, crafts, STEM activities, mindfulness activities, snacks, sports, and so much more! A full schedule will be sent to all participants once signed up.

Camps are limited to just 40 kiddos, so hurry and secure your spot! For more information and/or to register, call (920) 427-8286 or email swim@wiswimacademy.com!

• Dates: June 19-23, July 17-21 and August 14-18, 2023
• Ages: 5 – 11+

Green Bay Botanical Garden Youth Day Camps

Nurture your kids and help them grow with nature-inspired games, crafts, and outdoor adventures at Green Bay Botanical Garden Camps! Campers learn about critters and Monarch butterflies in the Garden, explore the wonder of trees, get hands-on with fresh fruits and veggies, and so much more, including experiencing our brand new Carol & Bruce Bell Children’s Garden, opening in May!

• Ages: 6-12 

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Summer Day Camps

Options for keeping kids busy during the day are available for all budgets, interests, and needs! Half-day and full-day programs are available in many settings across the Fox Cities and beyond.

The Academy, Appleton

The Academy offers full-day summer camps exploring martial arts, dance, tumbling, outdoor sports, educational lessons, and more.

• Ages: 5-12

Boys & Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley, Appleton & Menasha

The summer programs at the Boys & Girls Club of Appleton and the Boys & Girls Club of Menasha feature a wide-ranging array of fun and exciting programs. Camp is offered all season long with sports and fitness, art activities, small group discussions, leadership and community service, field trips, Trips for Kids, baseball, Summer Brain Gain, and more!

• Ages: 6-12

Camp Shioc, Shiocton

Camp Shioc is an Appleton YMCA summer day camp is located on 10 beautiful acres 20 miles northwest of Appleton. Kids can enjoy fishing, paddle boating, kayaking, and canoeing on a stocked fishing pond. They can try our archery range, sports field, and playground areas, along with an outdoor amphitheater for skits and plays. 

• Ages: 5-12 (must have completed 5K)

Girl Scout Camp Winnecomac, Kaukauna

Camp Winnecomac is a hidden gem in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. Surrounded by 1,000 Island Nature Preserve trails. Join for one-day programs or week-long sessions.

Campers at Camp Winnecomac get to experience the outdoors at its best. Camp includes hands-on experiences like archery, team building, field games, exploring nature, art, and campfire cooking.

You don’t have to be a member of a troop to go to Girl Scout camp! All girls are welcome! Those who haven’t already joined Girl Scouts will need to become registered members, but that’s really easy to do!

• Grades: K-7
• Registration Begins: Mid-February

Salvation Army Kroc Community Center, Green Bay

The Salvation Army Kroc Community Center offers a day camp for learning, playing, swimming, creating, exploring, making new friends, and laughing. Choose from many theme camps based on topics like sports, art, games, STEM, culture, and history. 

• Ages:
  • Day Camp: 5-12
  • Teens: 13-15

St Mary’s Catholic Schools Camp Zephyr, Neenah

SMCS Summer Day Camp is a faith-based program with a variety of scheduling options to provide families the flexibility to meet their individual needs. Children participate in arts and crafts, drama, music, sports, picnics, world language, and many more activities linked to age-appropriate faith development. Enthusiastic teachers lead the children in a variety of activities and explorations. 

• Ages: 3 yrs – 6th grade

UWGB, Green Bay

University of Wisconsin – Green Bay offers camps and youth programs for a variety of ages and interests from Aquatics Robotics to Wizarding to Music Camps!

• Ages: Grades 2-12

YMCA of the Fox Cities, various locations

The YMCA Fox Cities offers camps across the area in a variety of day and overnight programs. Whether learning a new skill or game, working on a project with new-found friends, or just enjoying some playtime—YMCA camps provide room to grow confidence and build resilience.

• Ages: Pre-k through High School

Overnight Summer Camps, Weeklong Camps & Residential Camps

These camps introduce children to traditional camp experiences and so much more. They’ll learn self-reliance and leadership skills, and so much more while experiencing everything the opportunity to attend a camp in Wisconsin offers. These options are the ultimate outdoor adventure camps!

Brigade, Camp Onaway, Waupaca

Camp Onaway is a 6.5-acre island located on the Chain O’ Lakes near Waupaca, Wisconsin. Since 1908, the Brigade has offered camps at Onaway Island as an extension of the Building Leaders program at our building in Neenah. This camp is the ultimate outdoor adventure!

• Ages: grades 4-12 (previous school year)

Camp Eagle Ridge, Mellen

Camp Eagle Ridge is a residential leadership skills camp focusing on independence, individual passions and interests, trying new things, confidence, friendships, and memories. Daily activities are chosen by campers from more than 40 options.

• Ages: 7 – 17

Camp Luther, Three Lakes

Camp Luther summer camps provide a fun, faith-filled experience for youth ages five all the way through High School.

• Ages: Kindergarten through 12th Grade

Camp LuWiSoMo, Wild Rose

Camp LuWiSoMo are weekend camps for the youngest campers and weeklong camps for older age groups. High School Summer Camp and the CIT Program are for high school campers. Lutheran Band Camp is open to all musicians in grades 5 – 9 with experience playing a band instrument.

• Ages: Pre-K through 12th Grade

Camp Nan A Bo Sho, Lakewood

Founded in 1964, Camp Nan A Bo Sho offers programs to develop self-esteem, a healthy mind, body, and spirit, acceptance of all people, and appreciation of our environment. Activities are offered all day and focused on teaching the benefits of teamwork, cooperation, and environmental stewardship, along with the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. 

• Ages: 5-17

Camp Anokijig, Plymouth

Camp Anokijig is a summer camp for boys and girls for four days, one week, two weeks, or for up to nine weeks of summer fun. 

• Ages: 7-16

Camp Tekakwitha, Shawano

Camp Tekakwitha offers fun and engaging, faith-based summer camps

• Ages: 6-17

Camp Phillip, Wautoma

Camp Phillip is a Christian summer camp and retreat for youth and families. They also have a camp for grandparents and their grandchildren.

• Ages: Kindergarten – Grade 8

Central Wisconsin Environmental Station, Amherst Junction

Central Wisconsin Environmental Station in Amherst Junction offers summer camps, adventure trips, and day camps connecting with nature and the environment. Located 19 miles east of Stevens Point on Sunset Lake.

• Ages: 9-15

Silver Birch Camp, White Lake

Silver Birch Camp is a Christian camp offering youth and family camps.

• Ages: Grades 3 – 12 and family camps

Sports Summer Camps

There are so many options for kids to work on their skills in sports they love or to explore something new. Half-day, full-day, and overnight camps offer time to connect with others that share their interests.

Air Force Gymnastics Academy, Green Bay

Air Force Gymnastics Academy is a Green Bay, WI camp that offers half or full-day summer camps with gymnastics classes, inflatables, inflatables, gym games, trampolines, ninja courses, and more. 

• Ages: school-aged kids

Crazy Eights Hockey Camp, Green Bay

Crazy Eights Hockey Camp is operated by Jinelle Siergiej to help inspire girls to play for the love of the game. Siergiej represented the United States at the 2010 Winter Olympics and helped the USA women’s hockey team gain silver medalist honors that year. Cornerstone Community Center, St. Norbert College, Mullett Ice Center, Carroll University. 

• Ages: 7-15

FVL Foxes Summer Camps, Fox Valley Lutheran High School, Appleton

FVL Foxes Summer Camps, Fox Valley Lutheran High School in Appleton offers community summer camps including tennis, basketball, soccer, softball, basketball, football, golf, and volleyball.

• Ages: Grades 1-9

Lawrence University Sports Camps, Appleton

Lawrence University sponsors a variety of summer camps for boys and girls, youth, and varsity, including basketball camps, soccer, fastpitch softball, and volleyball.

• Ages: 6 – 18

Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Academy Summer Camp, Milwaukee

Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Academy Summer Cam is a week-long day camp is open to boys and girls. Camp includes instruction, Brewers game tickets, a V.I.P. day at the ballpark, the opportunity to meet a Brewers player, instruction from a Brewers coach, and a full Brewers uniform. Multiple locations across Wisconsin, including Appleton, Green Bay, and Fond du Lac. 

• Ages: 6-14

Nike Swim Camp at Lawrence University, Appleton

Nike Swim Camp at Lawrence University with Head Swim Coach Andrew Fleek. Designed for competitive swimmers to improve and refine their stroke technique. Nike Swim Camp’s goal is to teach the things that will make the biggest difference to your performance.

Lawrence University is offering two sessions of overnight, extended day, and day camps.

• Ages: 9-18

Odyssey Climbing and Fitness Youth Camps, Green Bay

The new state of the art facility, Odyssey Climbing and Fitness Youth Camps, is opening this winter in Green Bay will offer youth rock climbing camps!

• Ages: TBA

St. Mary’s Catholic Schools Summer Sports Camps, Neenah

St. Mary’s Catholic Schools Summer Sports Camps offer community summer camps including football, volleyball, tennis, basketball, & strengthening/conditioning at St. Mary’s High School.

• Ages: Grades 2-12

UW-Oshkosh Sports Camps, Oshkosh

UW-Oshkosh hosts nearly 40 camps and clinics annually in baseball, basketball, football, gymnastics, soccer, softball, track and field, volleyball and wrestling. Each session offers instruction to all skill levels, from introductory to advanced, grades Kindergarten to high school. 

• Ages: 5 – 17

Winagamie Junior Golf Program, Greenville

The Winagamie Junior Golf Program has classes to fit any junior golfer’s needs, offering four different league play days. Each of them will include 1 hour of PGA instruction each week. They even offer a parent/child two-day golf camp!

• Ages: 4 – 17

YMCA of the Fox Cities Gymnastics Camps, Kimberly

The YMCA of the Fox Cities Gymnastics Camps are great camps for beginner and recreational gymnasts looking to try out the sport or further their developmental gymnastics skills. 

• Ages: 4-18

Kidspirations Dance School Camps, Appleton

A variety of week-long themed dance camps and exploratory classes.

• Ages: 1 – 10

Music Summer Camps

Heid Music Rock University, Appleton

Heid Music Rock University is a week-long camp and includes Theory, Rhythm, Songwriting, Everybody Sings, Sound Checking, Rock Music History, Recording Techniques, Social Media Marketing, Break-out sessions, Band rehearsal, Photoshoots, and Band logo design. Special guest appearances by Mile of Music performers, product specialists, and more. 

• Ages: 11-18

St. Norbert’s Band Camp, Green Bay

St. Norbert’s Band Camp

• Ages: Grades 5-9

Girls Rock Fox Cities, Appleton

Girls Rock Fox Cities is a tuition-free rock program taught by local women musicians and supported by local non-profit VolumeUp, including private lessons, group coaching, and a final concert.

• Ages: 12-18

Art Summer Camps

Art Garage Summer Camps, Green Bay

Art Garage in Green Bay offers summer art camps. Choose from 5-day, 3-day, and 2-day workshop options. Registration opens March 1st.

• Ages: 6-16

Bergstrom – Mahler Museum of Glass, Neenah

Art Camp offers a wide variety of creative camps including learning about creating art with glass, fusing and painting. Students will be able to explore the museum galleries using the displays as inspiration for their own work.

• Ages: 5-15

Camp Feather at Rooster Dreams Visual Arts, Neenah

The summer visual art immersion program at Camp Feather offers a wonderful & fun artistic journey. We will be cultivating creativity in each and every student. By the end, each student will have something to crow about!

Students will spend their time: Drawing & Painting. Building & Creating. Each month has a different theme and each week will incorporate a wide variety of projects.

A student could enroll in multiple camps this summer, knowing that each will be a unique experience. Siblings are allowed to enroll, too, regardless of age.

• Ages: 7-18

Hazelmade Art Studio Kids Art Camps, Appleton

Hazelmade Art Studio Kids Art Camps feature each week is a different 5-day camp with a new theme. All camps offer multi-step projects using a variety of materials and techniques.

• Ages: 5 (having finished kindergarten) to 15

Trout Museum of Art, Appleton

Explore a world of Art through mediums, movements, and methods with various camps for artists from grade school through young adults at Trout Museum of Art Summer Camps.

• Ages: 10 – 18

STEM Focused Summer Camps

Barlow’s Astronomy & Space Programs, Menasha

Explore the thrill of astronomy, space, and science through hands-on rocketry activities at Barlow’s Astronomy & Space Programs.

• Ages: Grades 2-8

Camp Invention, Appleton, Neenah & Oshkosh

Camp Invention is a S.T.E.M.-based science camp that will be hosted at local elementary and high schools. 

• Ages: Grades 1-6 (in the Fall)

FVL Foxes Summer Camps, Fox Valley Lutheran High School, Appleton

FVL Foxes Summer Camps, Fox Valley Lutheran High School features STEM Camps, including Biomedical Science, eSports, Computer Science, and Engineering.

• Ages: Grades 5-8

Fox Valley Technical College TechKnowledge College, Appleton

Fox Valley Technical College TechKnowledge College hosts hands-on summer camp options for middle school and high school students. We offer a variety of high-tech, engaging summer camps.

• Ages: 9-18

Nature-Focused Summer Camps

Bubolz Nature Preserve, Appleton

The summer camp program at Bubolz Nature Preserve focuses on exploring adventures in nature. Half-Day programs for ages 4-9 and full-day programs are available.

• Ages: 7-12

Green Bay Botanical Garden Youth Day Camps

Nurture your kids and help them grow with nature-inspired games, crafts, and outdoor adventures at Green Bay Botanical Garden Camps! Campers learn about critters and Monarch butterflies in the Garden, explore the wonder of trees, get hands-on with fresh fruits and veggies, and so much more, including experiencing our brand new Carol & Bruce Bell Children’s Garden, opening in May!

• Ages: 6-12 

Eco-Explorers Summer Camp at Heckrodt Wetland Reserve, Menasha

The Eco-Explorers Summer Day Camp is designed to teach children about their natural environment through hands-on interactive activities.

During each program, participants will enjoy nature-related activities and crafts. Puppets, games, and stories may also be used to examine our natural world and environmental stewardship. Small group sizes allow children to experience nature with personal direction from our naturalists.

• Ages: 3 – Grade 8

Swift Nature Camp, Minong

Swift Nature Camp focuses on unplugged fun activities, life skills, new friendships, and can offer personalized tutoring for kids that need to stay on their learning paths through the summer. From animal care to wake boarding, there is something fun for everyone and the natural beauty surrounding this camp in the Northwoods of Wisconsin gives campers breathtaking views! One of the best summer camps for kids and teens that are first-time campers at a residential program, they will make that first day of camp a little easier.

• Ages: 6 – 15

Animal Summer Camps

Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, Green Bay

Summer is a time of adventure and fun for children. Summer Camps at Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary include outside playing and exploring, hiking, play games, do craft projects and incorporate live animals in the program. 

• Ages: 4-13

Summer Zoo Camp, Green Bay

Day camp programs at the NEW Zoo in Green Bay focus on animals and animal care in July and August. Students may attend up to two dates per summer. Programs are appropriate for 

• Ages: students entering grades 5k through 7th in the Fall

Horseback Riding Summer Camps

Oakridge Riding Academy (formerly Amethyst Academy), Larsen

Happy Horse Days Camp at Oakridge Riding Academy and Beginner Summer Camp. This five-day camp has so many opportunities to try new things in a safe environment.

The week ends with a presentation for families of what the camp community has learned. Pack snacks, wear long pants, heeled boots, and have a water bottle filled for a week campers will remember!

• Ages: 7-15

Wild West Campground & Corral

Wild West Campground & Corral is a horse focused summer camp with daily activities including riding lessons, approximately 3 hours of daily trail riding, and a complete horse care program.

Time is available for traditional summer camp activities such as arts and crafts, basketball, badminton, volleyball, horseshoes, roping lessons, playground, and hiking. Inclement weather days may include off-site field trips pre-approved by parents/guardians. Overnight camp for girls. 

• Ages: 7-16

Other Speciality Camps

Building for Kids Children’s Museum, Appleton

The Building for Kids Children’s Museum offers week-long summer camps. Each week, campers will build new skills and explore different weekly themes, all while making new friends along the way. Themes include Robotics & Coding, Sculpture & Pottery, Music Makers, and so much more!

Attend all eight weeks or pick and choose which camps your child is most interested in. Half-day and full-day camps are available. Each day, campers will participate in facilitated programming based on the week’s theme as well as free play around the museum.

• Ages: 4K – 4th Grade

Children’s Museum of Green Bay

Enjoy a variety of Art and STEM 4-day camps led by trained instructors at the Children’s Museum of Green Bay.

• Ages: 5-11 

WisconSib Summer Programs

WisconSib Summer Programs is a high-energy day camp for siblings ages 6-12 of brothers and sisters with disabilities. Sib Camp gives siblings of children with disabilities time to kick back and enjoy freedom to adventure. Campers share time with peers who truly understand the ups and downs of life with siblings who have special needs.

Includes zip-lining, kayaking, geocaching, biking, swimming, campfires, and lots of fun!

• Ages: 6-12

Wisconsin Lions Camp, Rosholt

Wisconsin Lions Camp offers overnight summer camps in an inclusive environment with engaging activities for youth with varying abilities. Specific camps for kids with diabetes, epilepsy, intellectual disability & autism, hard of hearing, and blind or visually impaired.

This unique opportunity for sleep-away camp is provided to campers free of charge thanks to the generosity of Lions Clubs and other donors from Wisconsin.

• Ages: 6 – 17

Timbertop, Rosholt

Timbertop Camp is a Wisconsin summer camp for youth with learning disabilities, differences, and special needs. Timbertop is an overnight camp designed for boys and girls that have been identified by their School District as needing extra help for a special learning need. Specific learning disabilities may include: OHI, ADHD, ADD, LD and SLD. Youth receiving support services such as Leveled Learning Intervention (LLI), Reading Support, and Title 1, are also eligible.

Timbertop combines traditional camp activities with extra reading practice and special group activities that focus on dealing with learning differences in a structured daily setting. The camp is dedicated to providing a safe, fun, and small group environment, which develops the spirit, mind, and body of each individual. 

Camp is a special place where youth and teens learn about the environment, develop positive values, make meaningful friendships, build positive peer relationships, learn new skills, and increase self-confidence. In our community of caring adults, Timbertop summer camp helps kids grow and find themselves.

• Ages: 8 – 14

Camps Just for Girls

Camp Marimeta, Eagle River

Camp Marimeta, a northern Wisconsin camp for girls, has welcomed campers and families for more than 70 years! The camp’s emphasis ­is­ creating a safe, caring, and welcoming family atmosphere to help our campers flourish and become strong, independent, vibrant, and empowered women of the future.

Girl Scout Camp Winnecomac, Kaukauna

Camp Winnecomac is a hidden gem in Kaukauna, Wisconsin. Surrounded by 1,000 Island Nature Preserve trails, Camp Winnecomac is the perfect place for girls in Kindergarten through seventh grade to experience Girl Scout Camp for the first time.

Campers at Camp Winnecomac get to experience the outdoors at its best. Camp includes hands-on experiences like archery, team building, field games, exploring nature, art, and campfire cooking.

You don’t have to be a member of a troop to go to Girl Scout camp! Those who haven’t already joined Girl Scouts will need to become registered members, but that’s really easy to do! Join for one-day programs or week-long sessions.

• Girls Ages: Kindergarten – 7th Grade

GLAD Camp, De Pere

GLAD Camp is a girls’ summer camp at St. Norbert’s for girls are led by Wisconsin-certified female teachers chosen for their ability to serve as positive role models. GLAD Camp builds confidence and leadership skills, fosters positive body image, and encourages girls to set high-reaching goals.

• Girls Ages: Grades 1-8

Camps Just for Boys

BOLD Camp, De Pere

BOLD Camp is a boys camp for boys in grades 4-8, inspiring them to become thoughtful, confident, empathetic leaders who recognize talent in themselves and others. In a fun, supportive atmosphere, boys will work to become their personal best. Learn to explore their potential by learning what they stand for and to recognize their authentic selves. They’ll discover untapped courage, strength, determination, and will.

Boys Ages: Grades 4-8

Having a hard time choosing? Summer camp in Appleton? Summer camp in Green Bay? Look for more details about safety and programs at state of Wisconsin camps with the American Camp Association— many of the camps listed here have accreditation!