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Summer Camp

We understand how difficult navigating all of the summer camp choices can be. You want your child to grow, learn, and make real connections while being safe, accepted, and cared for.

We can help you give them the best week of their summer!

summer camp

Creating meaningful youth experiences for over 50 years.

Each summer at camp, we help foster a better understanding of God, self, others, and nature.

Our overnight camps run Sunday – Friday from mid-June to mid-August. Your child will experience a variety of outdoor adventures like hiking, mountain biking, climbing and swimming but most importantly making true meaningful connections.

getting started

3 Easy Steps to an Amazing Summer

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Find a Summer Camp

Explore summer camp opportunities available across 8 weeks of the summer. Select camps by your camper’s age group and learn more.

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Register

Use our easy online registration system as a new or returning family to get your camper registered for the camp of their choice.

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Pack

That’s it! We’ll be in touch with more information as camp approaches. Save the date, start packing, and consider bringing a friend to camp with you!

Stories from

Happy Campers

Be open to new people and new experiences.

 I’ve learned so much about others and myself, trying new things like climbing and mountain biking.

Cate

Camper

He had this sense of pride and independence when he came home!

Being at camp gave our son the opportunity to be completely unplugged and have all of these new adventures. When he got home he seemed so grown up and couldn’t wait to go back.  

Krista

Camper Mom

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Costs, Discounts, & Camperships

The cost of Horizons week long experience is $600-675 depending on programming. This cost includes items such as staffing, activities, equipment use, meals, lodging and facilities. Bethel Horizons is blessed to have generous donors who make this price possible. Without these donations, a week of summer camp would actually cost $850.

All children at Horizons receive the same outstanding program, regardless of what you are able to pay for summer camp.

camp discounts

Bring a friend
$50 off for both of you

Bring a sibling
$125 off

Mulitple Week
$50 off each additional week

camperships

It is our mission that no camper be denied the experience of camp due to financial reasons.

Our “Campership” fund was established to help those families who need financial assistance. If you want to send your child to camp but are concerned about cost, please download the following form and upload it to our system as you complete registration.

Campership processing will begin on April 1st. If you applied for one, you will be contacted after that date.

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Summer Camp Stories

Turning Point

Turning Point

Lincoln Scott is a very social kid who makes a lot of friends wherever he goes. That does not mean his mother was not apprehensive about sending him to his first week of overnight camp as a Horizons Explorer following his 2nd-grade year. “This was the first time he...

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Being Open

Being Open

Cate Cassata considers herself an outgoing person but did not have any camp experience prior to attending the first Mountain Bike Camp at Horizons in 2022. “My brother had been here before, but it was scary at first,” Cate said. “For me, it was a weird environment...

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Created in Love

Created in Love

Arlen Christenson was one of the first people to tour what is now the Bethel Horizons property. Along with his wife, Judy, they have been committed to the mission of Bethel Horizons from the beginning. Judy recalls some of those early days when there were questions...

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Horizons Hero

Horizons Hero

“I was never an outdoorsy person.” shared Kayla Schween. “My aunt had tried to get my sister and me to attend camp at Horizons when we were young, but we just weren’t interested.” After graduating seminary from Drake University, Kayla found herself in a transitional...

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Touching Lives

Touching Lives

Leotha Stanley is an artist in residence who has been teaching music in local schools, including one week of summer camp at Horizons, for over 20 years. He is extremely passionate about sharing his love of different types of music and the transformative power music...

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Find Us

Main Office

312 Wisconsin Avenue
Madison, WI 53703

Horizons Camp

4651 County Road ZZ
Dodgeville, WI 53533