Unlock a summer of excitement, growth, and empowering martial arts for your child! Experience high quality martial arts instruction, engaging arts and crafts, team building games, and adventure filled field trips. Voted #1 “Best of WNC” camp! We instill respect, perseverance, and leadership skills in our campers. Our camps are for rising K-5th grade students and are offered 9am-4pm with extended care options available.
Day Camps
Falling Creek is a traditional summer camp for boys, founded on Christian values. It is located on over 900 private mountaintop acres in western North Carolina, 20 minutes from Hendersonville. Sessions range from one to four weeks for rising 1st through 12th grade boys, with Father/Son Weekends. In addition to the classic camp activities, campers can choose a variety of out-of-camp adventure trips.
Black Mountain Montessori School is a diverse educational community that is built on the principles of intrinsic motivation, self-directed learning, and social responsibility. The school’s developmentally appropriate approach has been designed to fit each individual child, instead of making the child fit the program. It places an emphasis on community involvement through a partnership with local colleges, community gardens, and the arts.
Carolina Day School offers over eighty different week-long sessions in arts, nature, hiking, sports, academics, science, theater, dance, and more! Ages: rising pre-k through twelfth-graders.
The Movers and Shakers Summer Camp promotes the same values that are the cornerstone of Asheville Community Movement: teaching kids to be independent and conscientious community members within a fun and safe environment. We try to nurture the individual passions of our campers by devoting each week to themes that foster community spirit and sustainable living.
Eliminating racism, empowering women — it’s what the YWCA is about and what it intends to do. The YWCA of Asheville offers programs in Aquatics, including swim lessons, lap and open swims, water aerobics, lifeguard training, and more.
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Themes each week: arts & crafts, games, field trips. Ages 5-11. June 12th – August 18th.
Asheville Racquet Club, on Hendersonville Road, offers one week camp sessions from June through August. They offer summer camps at both locations of the Asheville Racquet Club. Choose from tennis camps, soccer camps, junior varsity sports Camp, varsity sports camp, ARC adventure camp .
Find your friends here! Camp Ruach (that means “spirit”) welcomes all rising 1st-8th graders for a traditional day camp experience focused on building lifelong friendships and enjoying a summer full of fun. Each two-week session is built upon teaching important values through exciting activities, including sports, cooking, crafts, archery, nature expeditions, gardening, overnights, dance, music, swimming with WSI certified swim instructors, and much more.
Monday, June 13th through Friday, August 5th, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
LEAF Summer Camp welcomes all rising first through fifth graders for a week full of daytime adventures through creative and performing arts! LEAF Camp will re-create the beloved festival experience for campers. Please visit the website for additional information. Week I is scheduled for July 24-28 and Week II for July 31-August 4.
Each Pre-College program runs from Sunday to Friday, with topics spanning the arts and sciences. All students live on campus to fully experience university life and the surrounding community, and the program cost, which starts at $1,430, includes lodging, meals, course materials, activities and excursions.
Asheville Creative Arts, known for producing innovative theatre for audiences of all ages, presents two half-day co-ed camps offering instruction in acting, creative drama, writing, improv, puppetry, prop and costume creation. (Sign up for one or both sessions: Heroes, Heroines & Tricksters, 9am-noon; Not Your Mama’s Drama Camp, 1-4pm) Held at Hanger Hall. Cost: $130 per half-day day session; early drop off ($10), late pick up ($10), and lunch bridge between camps ($10).
Grades 4-6 • June 24-28 • Co-Ed • Day • June 24 – 28
Mission Control: Exoplanet Exploration
This camp is designed for middle and high school aged campers.
Do you have what it takes to plan a mission to another planet? Gain confidence, learn space science, and strive to make it to a new world in this combination role-play—academic camp. The wide variety of topics makes this camp a good fit for a range of interests. You’ll tackle challenges in space craft and habitat design, astronaut health and well-being, and capturing public interest while swaying others to support your plan.
Above & Beyond
This camp is designed for high school aged campers.
Models the research process followed by professionals in space science!Our signature and most academically intensive camp explores the universe through astronomy, physics, and astrobiology. Use real research-grade instruments and data to investigate objects like super-nova remnants and distant star clusters. One small step as a space explorer, one giant step in launching your career in space.
Timberlake offers traditional camping with an outstanding Christian staff. riding, backpacking, tennis, climbing, wrestling, paintball, archery, waterskiing, riflery, mountain biking, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, guitar, soccer, volleyball, ropes course, fencing, rafting, and much more are available. Timberlake is the brother camp to Merri-Mac for Girls.
Each week offers campers a different theme such as Superheroes for the 3-5 year olds to Broadway Bound for the 6-9 year olds. Campers will work through the week to create an informal performance to be shared with family and friends on Friday. Complimentary camp photos that capture the week of learning and fun will also be provided. All four themed ½ day camps put an emphasis on creative movement and dance and music. 9am to 12pm M-F. $125 per week.
June 25-June 29
July 9-13
July 23-27
July 30- August 3
To register call 828-669-0930 or visit BlackmountainArts.org.