Camp Weloki is a week long overnight camp experience designed for kids ages 8-11, middle schoolers age 11-14 and teens 13-17.

What's unique about Camp Weloki?

Personal growth and awareness and

building life skills.
Our vision for camp has always been to bring a diverse group of kids together for self discovery, life skills building, fun and community. 

We have "courseroom", our group learning time, for about 3 hours each day. In these sessions, campers get a chance to have real, honest discussions about what is going on in their lives and in the lives of their peers. Our campers tell us it's the only place in their lives where their peers get real and where they can talk about anything going on in their lives without feeling judged or criticized.

By weeks end, this is the favorite part of camp for most of the campers.  And this unique part of our camp is what brings campers back year after year to deepen and enhance their personal awareness and growth.  And they love the deep connections they make with fellow campers and our staff.  Check out "What Campers Learn" and "Just for Teens" for more information about what campers learn.

Another unique feature of Camp Weloki is how much choice and say-so the campers have about their camp week.  We have tons of fun activities that campers get to choose, create and lead.  We have "family camp meetings" every day where our staff takes the time to really hear what the campers want.

Campers get to brainstorm what kind of activities they want in the afternoons and then have the freedom to choose what they do all afternoon, moving from one to the other as they wish.  For our evening activities, the campers choose, plan, organize and put on fun events for the whole camp.

Kids and teens alike say our camps are the most fun camps they've ever been at because of their ability to have so much say-so in their activities and because of how close they feel to their new friends and staff because of the sharing in courseroom.  It is this environment of acceptance, closeness and high energy fun that make Camp Weloki one of a kind and the kind of camp that campers want to return to year after year. 

Camper to staff ratio is an important part of our success. We keep our ratios small, i.e. for younger campers two to one and for teens three to one.  Kids get lots of personal attention and chances to connect with and learn from our experienced staff.  Having a lot of staff also allows us to be less structured than most camps.  Kids have the freedom to choose where they want to spend their afternoon time because we have more than enough counselors to spread out and cover the various activity choices.  It also allows us to be more flexible to allow kids to create new, fun camp activities.

Keeping it intimate and smaller in numbers. 

For more inforation about Camp Weloki contact our Camp Director, Mike Lander, at 636-530-1883 or email him at Mike@weloki.com.