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Overnight Lodging

Twelve heated cabins, fully equipped with electricity and attached restrooms and showers are available to groups.  Each building contains two large sleeping rooms (Max: 12 people per room) and one center room Max: 4 people) with a total capacity of 28 people per building. For a total capacity of 168 beds. Bring your own linens. We do have several other seasonal accommodations as well.


Turner Lodge

A spacious two-room dining hall with wood floors and two flagstone fireplaces. With a seating capacity for 250 people, it serves as a dining and meeting room area. It contains a modern kitchen and spacious outdoor deck overlooking the oxbow lake.



Taylor Chapel

A cedar-lined multi-purpose meeting room with a brick fireplace with a TV/VCR and restrooms. Log beams and wagon-wheel chandeliers create the feel of days gone by.




Knapp Outdoor Chapel

This chapel offers an inspirational, panoramic view of the oxbow lake from an elevated deck, which extends to the water's edge. The seating area provides a serene place to meet for more than 200 people. Its theater-style seating is ideal for lectures, classes, or church functions - even weddings!


Office/Infirmary
The camps business office and infirmary are located in the same building. The infirmary has 4 separate rooms with a bed capacity of 6, two restrooms, an AED and one shower. Lockable storage for medications and basic first aid supplies are available.

Arts & Crafts
A screened-in, summer activity building equipped with benches and tables for 20 people. Groups may use this area for lectures, small-group breakout area, or for arts and crafts.

Camp Store
Craving something sweet - a candy bar, ice cream, or soda? How about a Camp Wapsie sweatshirt, T-shirt or hat? You'll find these and many other items at the Camp Store. You can also purchase projects to create at camp like a rocket or arts and crafts. The store is open at scheduled times in the summer and by arrangement throughout the year.

Pool Open for Swim Lessons and Community Swims
The Perrine Junior Olympic outdoor pool is available Saturday afternoons during the summer camp season for community swims. It is a great way to enjoy camp on a hot day. Camp also offers community swim lessons mornings during the summer season. Lessons are available for children and Baby and Me sessions. Contact camp for registration information.

Climbing Tower and Initiative Course

Both of these features provide invaluable growth, leadership, and team building opportunities for groups as part of a carefully planned schedule. The 50 foot tall Tango Tower offers climbing, rappelling, team climbs, and the zip line.




Water Front

Canoes, burma-bridge, trout pond, boat ramp, and dock. Go for a paddle in one of our canoes or take a spin in a fun-yak. Test your sea-legs on the burma bridge or try fishing at the trout pond.




Campfire Ring
Bring your voice and build some good old fashioned memories around the fire. Add some marshmallows and you've got "smores"! Or relax and listen to all the critters as they sing through the night.

Tennis/Basketball Courts
Two side-by-side basketball courts or two side-by-side tennis courts are available.