Camp Uncommon Competitors

With a mission to transform the world for children and adults with challenging illnesses, disabilities, or special needs, Camp For All collaborates with more than 65 nonprofit organizations throughout the year to enable thousands of campers and their families to discover life. Located in Burton, Texas, in a tranquil setting, encompassed by lush landscape and rolling hills, the 206-acre camp site features more than 100,000-square-feet of facilities, two lakes, nature trails, wooded areas, and cleared areas for a wide range of activities. The smoke-free facility is fully accessible and designed to foster campers’ independence. Camp For All is the national leader in creating and providing proven life-changing experiences through passionate and professional staff, cutting-edge facilities, and innovative programming. Camp For All was designed with no barriers for children and adults with special needs to experience the thrill of camping and nature, just like their able-bodied peers. All of the programming is “adaptive,” meaning that the activities can be accomplished regardless of the campers’ challenges, be it mobility, emotional or learning issues. Camp For All provides an environment that is free of the barriers in the everyday world, such as 8-foot-wide sidewalks to maximize mobility in wheelchairs, sloping entrance into the pool with a special lift, ramps and myriad special saddles to aid horseback riders, low beds with wide space in cabins, and large accessible showers and toilet areas. This culture of inclusion is underscored throughout the camp site and is truly built to “level the playing field” for all. Camp For All is the only recreational facility that accommodates the special needs community in this way.

For 40 years, Camp Sunshine has provided hope, joy and community through unique experiences for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. At our pristine campus on Sebago Lake in Maine, more than 60,000 children, siblings, parents, and caregivers from all 50 states and 27 countries have come together for fun-filled, year-round sessions with families just like theirs. And, thanks to the incredible support of donors and volunteers, our programs are 100% free. Camp Sunshine is where families can focus on recharging, together, in a safe space with medical support available. Camp Sunshine is where families discover a community who understands. Camp Sunshine is where families find family. Learn more: www.campsunshine.org.

Camp Good Days and Special Times, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families wholes lives have been impacted by cancer or sickle cell anemia through summer camping experiences and year-round events and activities. Camp Good Days was founded in 1979 in Rochester, NY and now maintains offices also in Buffalo and Syracuse, NY along with a recreational facility in Branchport, NY. Each year, over 1,000 children from NY State, around the country and even, around the world, enjoy the magic and hope that exists at Camp Good Days.