How big

[rockinsmiles]

Ok so just out of curiosity how many campers/staff do you have to a tent/cabin? Which brings another question, do you stay in tents or cabins? And (if you stay in a cabin) does it have electricity? At my cabin we stay in cabins which do have electricity. Unless its a busy week or something wierd we have at least 3 counselors per cabin. Which means we can have up to 23 campers in a cabin.

[CAMPFRIEND]

When I was a director at an overnight camp we had all cabind with electricity but no bathrooms. There were 12 campers and two counselors in each cabin. Our cabins were one big room. Nos different place for the counselors to sleep.
________
girlfriends pics (http://girlfriendpics.org)

[Dave]

I work at a day camp so we don't have tents/cabins, but we do have bunks. Each bunk has about 10-13 kids on average, sometimes more and sometimes less. Each bunk also has at least three counselors: a senior counselor, a junior counselor, and a counselor assistant (the rank below JC), or a combination of some of them. Most bunks have a CIT as well. Last summer, our bunk had one senior counselor, one junior counselor, two counselor assistants, and we went through two CITs. The first one was always trying to get himself and us fired. So they got rid of him. The second one joined our bunk around week 6 (of 8 weeks). He was the most annoying kid I ever talked to. He never shut up and he didn't treat the kids too well either. He called one of the kids in our bunk a dumbass right to his face. Now while we all thought the same way about the kid, none of us ever said that to his face.

[Skater Bubbles]

My camp has cabins and we have electricity in them, but no bathrooms and no seperate space for counselors. We normally have about 12 campers to a cabin and 1 or 2 counselors.

[Indigo]

My camp has mostly platform tents, but we also have some lodges, A-frame cabins, a house, and these cool double-pods. Tents and A-frames fit 4 campers, though we've sometimes squeezed one or two more in there... The pods hold 8 girls each (there are 3 of them, which means that there can be 16 girls in that unit since the counselors have their own), the house can hold up to 12 campers or so, squeezed in (that's where the CITs stay), one lodge isn't usually used, but it could hold about 20 or so people, and the other lodge is where the WITs stay, and it has enough beds for 32 campers and 5 staff, though it's never that full. Most units are built to accommodate 32 girls and 4 staff members, though we've had as few as 6 campers in a unit, and as many as 40 in another. Most of the units have ETs (environmental toilets, like latrines, but they don't stink, and they break down the waste nicely), and no electricity except at the ETs and the kitchen shelter.

[Flukie]

All our camper units are platform tents. Each tent sleeps 4. There is one staff tent within the units. They sleep from 20 to 32 girls in a unit. There is also a staff tent unit that sleeps the kitchen staff, the maintence staff and some of the Ad-Staff. I lived there this summer, but the Waterfront Director and Sailing Director normally live there. The AD, Nurse, Program Manager and Business Director normally sleep in the lodge. Our Camp Director is also the site manager - she has a real house she lives in year round! :)

Each unit has flushies (complete with plungers!), sinks, and a unit shelter of some sort. The shelters have lights and some of the bathroom stations do as well.

I don't think I'd like to live with the campers... I do like living around them though.

[camper]

we live in bunks. 2 bunks are connected by a wall and bathrooms in the back, the building together is called a bungalow (like you can walk from one bunk to the other in the bungalow through the bathrooms). our bunks have electricity and obviously, the bathrooms, sinks, and showers b/c they connect the bungalow lol. 6-9 kids are in a bunk, which means 12-18 in a bungalow. each bunk has 2 or 3 counselors, or 4-6 in a bungalow. occasionallyyyy we have 10 kids in a bunk but not very often.

[Flower]

At my camp it varies by the size of the cabin and the age group. I've seen anywhere from four to thirteen with two to three counselors. Generally the youngest kids have smaller cabin sizes. The oldest age group of girls live altogether in a house with several bedrooms with bunk beds and two to three counselors depending on the number of fifteen year olds. My camp has 13 regular cabins and the house for the fifteen year olds. Each cabin has electricity, toilets, and sinks. There's a central showerhouse for the camp to share. The counselors sleep in a room off of the cabin. Some cabins are connected by these room, so the counselors share their room with the counselors from the next cabin over. I really like the setup. The cabins are rustic feeling wood structures, but they have some basic comforts like lights and not having to walk outside to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

[collissimon]

We have bunks. Most of them have 9/10 kids and 3 staff (2 counsellors and 1 Specialist, or 3 counsellors). There are a couple of smaller ones, which have 7 kids and 3 staff.

Do you have running water etc? We have two showers, two toilets and two sinks in each cabin. Some of them have roof fans, and the others have a little fan for when it gets hot, or more likely stinky!!! :D

[Dave]

We have running water. There are toilets and sinks in the bathrooms. We also have several areas of the camp that use a lot of water (aside from the pools). One is a "sledding slope". It's basically a carpeted slope that has water constantly being poured on it (through holes in hoses running down it). The kids sit in floating tubes and slide down. The bad part about it is when kids fall off they can get rugburn. We also have a splash park, which is pretty cool (for the kids, that is).

[martha27]

the younger campers live in bunks which hold between 6-8 kids and 2-3 counselors. they all have bathrooms etc...the top three divisions live in big bunk for each division, all together and depending on the size of the division it can depend how many are in there, kids and counselors

[melon4382]

We have cabisn for all the campers. There is a bathhouse for each division so there's a total of 3. We have around 10-12 campers and 2 counselors per cabin.

[rockinsmiles]

I have to say i really like having the showers, sinks, and toilets in the cabin. We have 3 sinks and 2 of everything else on the first floor. Then upstairs there is a sink and toilet which is only for the counselor that sleeps up there. However I have to say with all the girls rushing to take showers (they get 3 minutes each) we sometimes have floods. The concrete floor can get pretty slippery. And yes I did say upstairs. There is a narrow stair case that leads up to an open floor with 4 sets of bunk beds. Its in the middle of the cabin and the walls are about as high as the first bed on the bunks. So people upstairs can look down on the people downstairs. There are 2 areas with bunks for the campers with the bathrooms in between in the back and the counselor "room" in the front. However only 2counselors can sleep in this room and it's not really private or a room. (one year the counselors hung up scarves to give themselves and the campers some privacy).

[who_stole_my_loofa]

We have all cabins and they have electricity and bathrooms in them. They house 16 people so we usually have between 12 and 14 campers and 2 staff. Occasionally we will have 3 staff members in a cabin. In the youngest age group (grades 1-3) the cabins only hold 8 people so we usually have 6 campers and 2 counselors in there. It is actually like 2 bunks in the cabin and they share a porch. But everything else is seperate. And in the oldest age group (grades 10-12) the cabins hold 9, so there are 8 campers and 1 counselor, they also don't have bathrooms in the cabins- there's a shower house. The boys cabins for grades 7-9 do not have bathrooms.

Loofa

[ocean]

There are 4 beds in each platform tent.
Counselors have one or two tents,
Campers have the rest of the tents in the unit.

[countrygal]

At the camp I work at we have 4 tribes and in each tribe we have 3 bungalow sort cabins. Each bungalow has 2 big rooms "cabins" that connect through a back room that the counsellors share to keep their things. The counsellors (usually 2 per cabin) sleep with the children. There can be at most i think 8 kids and 2 counsellors per cabin. We have 4 bathrooms, 1 for jr girls, jr boys, sr girls and sr boys. We then have 2 shower rooms, boys and girls that each cabin takes turns using on a rotating schedule.
I personally don't mind living with the kids, its fun. We have our back room that we use to change and keep our belongings. The kids understand not to invade our privacy such as our beds and back rooms and it seems to always work out.
There is also the apt. that sr staff live in, a little house that our director and another sr staff member sleep in as well as a "motel" (basic rooms with 2 beds) that program staff sleep in...they all have electricity. Kitchen staff sleep behind the kitchen.

[speedx5xracer]

My camp is made up of seven smaller camps, each of thoes seperated into divisions based on age and sex.

On our milford site (our flagship site) are 3(or 4 depending how you look at it) perment resident camps and one that is a rotation of day camps that stay for a few days.

The 3 main ones are Nah-Jee-Wah (k-6) Ceder Lake(6-9) and TAC (10-11), Mountain top and Center Sleep Away encompas all grades depending on who is comming up in any given week.

NJW is seperated into 6 divisions each having any where from 20-115 campers and from 10-20 staff(including specialists)
(10-18 campers/bunk and a min of 2 max of 7 staff)
CLC is seperated into 6 divisions as well im not sure now about hte sizes but when i was a camper in it it was between 40-and 120 wht 15-25 staff (including specialists)
(10-18 campers/bunk and a min of 2 max of 7 staff)
TAC- has a total of 150 campers and 15-20 staff
(14-16 campers/bunk and 2-3 staff)
Mountain Top- about 6 perminant staff and any staff that comes up with the groups some groups are as small as 3 and large at 100 including DAVE's camp (run thourgh a director on our premisis and JCC's in the north east)

Center Sleep Away- 20 -150 kids with up to 20 staff (i think) they are at camp M-F and there for 6 weeks. (Run thourgh Sephardic JCC in brooklyn/deal


Our Lake Como PA Site
Round Lake Camp - Special needs camp for sever add/adhd and a few other problems. (no clue on size)
Kislack Adult camp - camp for adults (no clue on size)
Nesher- Othordox Jewish camp - (no clue on size)


All together The New Jersey YM/YWHA camps are the biggest camp orginization in the North East and If im not mistaken the Nation. Im not sure what the ACA said last time but we have more campers and staff than any other orginization Including the scout groups.All of our camps are run by the same executive director (hence our massive size) and each individual camp is run by resident directors (1 each) and assisitant directors (from 1-5including athletic and water front directors)

[code3cadet]

My camp has cabins, 5 star chefs, heated floor in the cabins, 3 bath room in the cabin, 10 campers 2 staff, and heat and air.

The kids get hooked up at the camp that I worked at.

[Dave]

My camp has cabins, 5 star chefs, heated floor in the cabins, 3 bath room in the cabin, 10 campers 2 staff, and heat and air.

The kids get hooked up at the camp that I worked at.
Wow. That's impressive. I'd love to work there! :D I wish we had 5 star chefs at our camp and not some random people popping chicken in the microwave. :P

[code3cadet]

ya it is all right. I will never work there. The owner is need help

[audur]

Our units vary in size, but most of them can sleep between 24 and 30 campers and 4 to 8 staff. Each living unit is split into two program units, and there are usually 12-14 girls in each program unit and 2-3 counselors. We have many different kinds of cabins, and also two units with covered wagons. As it's a girl scout camp, the staff sleeps in seperate cabins (and the girls in the unit are also split into 2 or 3 different cabins). There's no electricity in cabins, and no running water, and they're all open-air cabins. Each unit has an open-air cooking shelter of some sort, but most do not have electricity. All units have access to a bathroom/shower house (most of them are shared with another unit, although some units have their own). Most of the showerhouses have electricity, but there are a couple that don't. We also have a couple of troop houses that are used for campers - one is used for the CIT's, the others usually for the youngest half-week campers. The troop houses have electricity, indoor bathrooms and DOORS (oh, the luxury!). I've actually only stayed in a troop house with campers once, for half a week, and I have to say, I prefer the cabins...

[campnerd99]

For starters I should say that my camp is pretty small in comparison to some of yours. We have 4 cabins that sleep 8 campers and one counsellor. Then there are two staff cabins that sleep 6 each. If the camp is full one of the staff cabins will go to campers and the staff who aren't sleeping in the cabins will sleep in one.
The cabins themselves have 4 sets of bunkbeds for campers and one single bed for the counsellor. There's electricty but it's not the best. In the past the oldest girls have blown fuses in the cabins because of having blowdryers, strighters ect. plugged it. There aren't any bathrooms in them ither.

[EchoLaker]

Our cabins, had A/C (thank goodness!), cubbies, rest rooms and sinks - and normally slept 10 kids and 3 staff each.

[Sparkes]

In each bunk we have 8-10 campers, and then from 2-4 counselors. We try to keep it at 3 counselors, but sometimes its more. We have electricty, toilets and showers (2 per bunk of each), and cubbies, so we don't have to go outside or anything. We don't have AC - but a lot of staff members brings monster fans to try and get some circulation. Also, counselors sleep in the bunks, generally in the corners by the door to prevent campers from thinking of escaping at night, so we don't have privacy from the campers.

And as for blowing fuses? During Senior Banquet night, when everyone gets showered and dressed up we always run short on water and electricity - imagine like 100 hair dryers and straightners and stereos and fans being plugged in at the same time!

[campnerd99]

And as for blowing fuses? During Senior Banquet night, when everyone gets showered and dressed up we always run short on water and electricity - imagine like 100 hair dryers and straightners and stereos and fans being plugged in at the same time!

That's when most of our fuses go to right before the senior dance. Which makes things even more fun because it's dark outsider. We've had the water problem too. There's really only enough hot water for one cabin to shower at a time but before the banquet/dance everybody wants to shower. It usually results in the guys getting the showers because they're faster at getting ready, leaving us girls with a hose on the front lawn.

[Sparkes]

We've had the water problem too. There's really only enough hot water for one cabin to shower at a time but before the banquet/dance everybody wants to shower. It usually results in the guys getting the showers because they're faster at getting ready, leaving us girls with a hose on the front lawn.

During orientation, when thank god no campers were around, we compleatly ran out of water because we were having problems with the well. A staff of 150 and no water for three days! We couldn't even bathe in the lake because it was public property (we share it) and we weren't supposed to leave camp during orientation. No water for drinking, showering, or using the washroom - it was disasterous (but made us bond quickly)!

[camplover86]

Unit staff sleeps in permitents. We have about 10 tents per unit. 4 or 5 campers per tent. The staff sleeps in a seperate tent(4 or 5 staff) The staff tent has electricity, but camper tents do not.

[campCardinal]

In my unit we have 8 cabins that can house up to 11 campers and 2-4 staff members. The largest unit has 18 cabins that can house 12-16 campers and 3-5 staff members. And, the unit for the oldest cabin is set up goofy. They have 6 cabins that house about 16 campers and 2-4 staff, and another building that has 2 cabins holding about 60 kids total and 10 staff. It's crazy. That cabin is just one big room and it's really hard to get to know everyone-- which we didn't think about when we decided to build it. Oh well, it works.

[Fallen]

We have different units that has about 5 cabins that fits about 5-6 campers. There's a staff cabin that holds the same number of counselors. Only the counselor cabin has electricity. The bathroom is a side of each unit with about 4 bathroom stalls and 4 showers with about two sinks.

[KiwiCRB]

We have two sets of cabins, each set can hold about 24 people. Then we have a unit of covered wagons that could possibly hold 24 people when they are all repaired, which they aren't. The platform tents can hold 20 people. There are also 3 unit houses that have basements full of bunkbeds and they sleep like 30 something. Only one set of our cabins has electricity.. but they are my least favorite unit because they have glass windows that make them hot and the light attracts bugs... especially sweat bees. Sweat bees in the cabin cause oh so much screaming and crying among campers, and occasionally staff. None of them have showers or toilets inside, if you have to go to the bathroom be prepared to get your shoes on and walk lol. The newest two bathhouses are completely inside but the old one has outdoor showers and sinks and and a seperate building for the toilets.

[Freaky]

WELL AT MY CAMP WE HAVE CABINS THAT CONSIST OF TWO BUNKS EACH. EACH cabin SHARES A BATHROOM WITH 3 SHOWERS, SINKS AND TOILETS. MOST CABINS ARE PACKED WITH 8-10 STAFF AND 22 KIDS. SO ITS ROUGH SOMETIMES WHEN IT COMES TO SHOWERS! THIS YEAR WILL BE THE 1ST YEAR WE HAVE AIR CONDITIONING IN THE BUNKS SO IT SHOULD BE NICE! BUT REALLY WE DON'T NEED IT IT GETS COLD AT NIGHT. WE HAVE 13 BUNKS IN TOTAL BUT THE YOUNGER AGE GROUPS HAVE LESS KIDS. SO MY CAMP IS ABOUT 350 WHEN IT IS FULL AND ABOUT 150 STAFF. ITS SMALL BUT NOT TO SMALL. I HOPE IT ALL MAKES SINCE. I KEEP GETING MESSAGES SAYING I HAVE NOT POSTED. SO I POSTED ON THIS THREAD TO STAY IN THE LOOP!

[Sparkes]

holy capital letters! ;)

[prettysocks]

I was positive I had already put my input in this thread.. But apparently not.

So.... We have 5 cabins that have 8 kids and 7 staff, and 2 cabins that have 12 campers and 9-10 staff. The 8-kid cabins are more high-needs campers, which is why the camper-staff ratio is higher. The senior counselor lives in the 8-kid cabins, and the rest of the staff takes turns being "night duty" staff, sleeping on matresses on the floor. In the 12-kid cabins, only the 2 "night duty" counselors sleep in the cabin, and they sleep on a bunkbed. In the 8-kid cabins, you're up about every hour, and in the 12-kid cabins, you never have to wake up, and you get to sleep in A/C. Sweet deal. Our camps are 10 days long, and this year there is 4 camper sessions, and a family camp (whole family comes).

And all the camper cabins have running water, showers w/ special "bath-beds" and commodes, sinks and flushing toilets, and electricity. They also all have heat (for winter rentals) and A/C. The staff cabins have sinks and toilets, and electricity, and no temperature control. We shower in the staff bathroom in the camper cabins.

There. Now I've put my input.

[gremlin_c]

we have one building that branches into 4 dorms. 2 for the boys, two for the girls. Each dorm contains 5 rooms and 2 bathrooms. 4 of the rooms have 8 beds each and 1 has 4 beds. the 4-man is always a counselor room.
The center of the dorm has a huge indoor fireplace and steps for the whole camp to sit around. It's pretty different then most camps.

[KristinR]

We have two different types of cabins. We have the regular cabins, that are open air, no electricity, bathhouses are close by. And we have 2 lodges. They have the space of 4 cabins inside them, two upstairs, two downstairs and 2 bathrooms on each level. There are 6 sets of bunk beds in each cabin or room and 12 too a cabin. 8 or 9 kids and 3-4 staff depending. We have a lot of different levels of staff (like Reg Counselers, Assistant Counselers (Part time in the kitchen, so they aren't there all the time but they stay all summer and are paid), Junior Counselers (Stay two weeks and aren't paid) ) So yea, we have a lot of people in there. :speechles

[Buster]

We have cabins of 12 girls and 1 counselor. The counselor has a separate "cubby" to sleep in. There are 5 or 6 cabins per unit and 4 girls units. The counselors almost always do a cabin theme and the cabins look awesome all decorated!

[KiwiCRB]

12 girls to 1 counselor??? Wow shouldn't there be more counselors per cabin?

[Buster]

There may be more counselors or fewer campers with the younger girls. We do have 2 or 3 floating assistant counselors. My old camp was 1:10 at all ages.

[The_Lorax]

our camp has 3 differnt types of cabins.. it depends on ages

The newest and nicest cabins are for the youngest kids (7-9 year olds), they have like 3 counselors who sleep in a domitory type cabin with bathrooms and showers inside.. I think 10 campers per group (2-3 counselors)

mainside (9-12 year olds) sleep in cabins with bathrooms attached (they have to just walk outside and back on... so they are ajoining.. the counselors cabins are the same way.. just outside the door but attached... there are about 10 campers and 2 counselors and sometimes a specialist... washhouses and things are a bit away

teenside is 8 campers who live in 2 bunks which are seperated by a counselor bunk which are all conntected by the deck. They only have washhouses which are a quick walk away

all cabins though have electricity

[boomthunder]

I've worked at a few camps and they've all done things a little bit differently. The first camp I worked at was a girl scout camp we lived in units with five kid cabins that held 5 campers each and had no electricity and one couselor cabin, usually with 3 or 4 counselors, that had electricity but not much else and the unit had one bath house. Then I worked at a YMCA camp for a few summers and there we had individual cabins that held 10-12 people and had one or two counselors and sometimes a CIT, they had electricity, but again just a one room cabin. Then I worked year-round at an outdoor education camp that had large lodges that I personally thought were too nice to be at a camp. There were 4 rooms that held 6 kids each, two bathrooms with two showers and two toilets each and a nice lounge area with a fire place. It was like a hotel almost. During the OE season there were two instructors per lodge who took turns, every other night in the lodge or in our own rooms in the staff house. During the summer though, there are four counselors that stay in the lodge with the kids.