Summer Camp
Campers entering grades 3-11 enjoy a full week of the best a residential camp has to offer!
If you like exploring the wilderness, flying down a zipline, and shooting a bow and arrow all before lunch you are an explorer! If you like making friendship bracelets, singing camp songs, and lounging in the sun on a canoe then you are an explorer! A week of excitement and personal growth is the designed outcome. Staff make it their mission to make sure the week is non-stop fun. Be ready you may just meet your new best friends!
Activities may include:
| Horseback riding |
Canoeing | Archery |
| Hiking | Gardening | Camp Store |
| Fort building |
Volleyball |
Build a Water Park |
| Carpetball | Ping Pong | Swimming |
| Arts & Crafts | Climbing Tower | Zip Line |
| Field Games | Ga-Ga | Campfires |
| Sleep Under the Stars | Dress Up Meals | Talent Show |
| Carnival | Outdoor skills |
Basketball |
11000 Pescadero RoadLa Honda, CA 94020P 650 747 1200F 650 747 0986info@campjonesgulch.org
Simply said: summer just wouldn't be the same without Camp! From archery to surfing to horse-back riding to s'mores, YMCA Camp Jones Gulch provides fun, safe adventures each summer. Please check out our listings for kids and teens.
Find the freedom of kid-focused camp and the security of nurturing staff at YMCA Camp Jones Gulch.
Register ONLINE!
Paper Registration
| With the focus on having FUN and meeting new friends, we'll keep your camper busy and give them the opportunity to try new things and meet new people. Pioneers will get to experience most activites that we offer here at camp and will attended them as a cabin group or village. |
11000 Pescadero RoadLa Honda, CA 94020P 650 747 1200F 650 747 0986info@campjonesgulch.org
There are many ways to get to Summer Camp
We love to meet the whole family, but you can come with friends or on the bus.
Drive up with your family or friends:
- Click here for driving directions.
- Drop off on Sunday is 2-3 p.m.
- Pick up Friday is 4-4:30 p.m.
- If you are picking your child up from camp, we’d like you to join us for our weekly Barbeque on Friday afternoons after Check Out. Activities will run from 4:30-5:30pm and food will be served at 5:00pm. Let your campers show you their favorite parts of camp.
YMCA charters buses provide transportation to resident camp:
- You must register for the bus at a cost of $40 each way.
- Camp Staff will be on board each bus to supervise campers.
- Before each trip, a counselor will explain the safety rules, such as staying seated and keeping noise down.
- Please keep campers in a designated, safe area in the parking lot until they have been properly checked in.
- If your child misses the bus, it is your responsibility to get your child to camp.
- The winding mountain roads can cause motion sickness in some campers. Please try to avoid large heavy meals and consider using a motion sickness medication prior to the trip.
*There is NO bus transportation for Mini Camp!
Bus Stop Locations and Times:
Stonestown Family YMCA333 Eucalyptus DriveSan Francisco, CA 94132Sunday Departure: 1:30pm Friday Arrival: 5:00pm |
Marin YMCA1500 Los Gamos DriveSan Rafael, CA 94903Sunday Departure: 12:15pm Friday Arrival: 6:00pm |
Peninsula Family YMCA1877 S. Grant StreetSan Mateo, CA 94402Sunday Departure: 2:15pm Friday Arrival: 4:00pm |
Downtown Berkeley YMCA2001 Allston WayBerkeley, CA 94704Sunday Departure: 1:45pm Friday Arrival: 5:30pm |
Stay-over weekends connect sessions for a longer stay!
Registered campers can stay at camp for activities between sessions for no additional cost.
When one week of YMCA Camp Jones Gulch just isn’t enough, there is the stay-over weekends! A perfect transition between two full weeks of camp, the stay-over can provide some much needed time to recharge your camp batteries or provide you with the opportunity to do special stay-over-only activities. Hang out and eat treats, take a night time ride on the zip line, or explore the outer reaches of camp.
Stay-Over Weekends:
Session 3/4: July 6-8Session 5/6: July 20-22Session 8/9: August 10-12
Weekend stay-overs gives your child the chance to spend multiple weeks at camp without the need to return home on the weekends. Campers staying over for the weekend will engage in both new activities only offered to during the weekend or get to do some of our camp activities but with an additional twist not all campers get to experience. For example, weekend activities could include night time zip line, all-camp competitions and games, bounce house, or night hike.
We ask that parents pack enough clothing for two weeks. Camp can wash essentials if needed.