Questions about Facilities and Food
Q:
Do you have an indoor arena?
A: The arena is 60' x 150' and the footing is sand. There are stalls in the indoor arena and a small tack room.
Q: What are your cabins like?
A: Campers sleep in cozy, rustic, cedar cabins with bunk beds, and electricity.
A Counselor and a Counselor in Training
reside in the cabin. A Hill Parent is added supervision. He/she stays in a
smaller cabin within the cabin village; Hill Parents are a resource to the Counselor.
They are also a mom away from home for bedtime hugs. Hill parents are wonderful!
Q: Are there bathrooms in the cabins?
A:There are bathrooms with flush toilets and showers in the main Camp Lodge, but not in the cabins. Near the cabins there are outhouses, and there is a washhouse with sinks and showers.(All showers are single shower stalls.) Actually, the outhouses remind us this is really camp. Makes us appreciate indoor plumbing, and teaches us we can survive without it.
Q. Where do we eat?
A: Our roomy Camp Lodge, complete with fieldstone fireplace, sits on a private lake at the center of open fields, running streams, and wooded hillsides. We eat in the Lodge, use the building for rainy day programs, and recreational activities. There is an infirmary in the building, as well as a small library, an art room, showers and flush toilets. Girl Scouts sleep in the lodge when they come to Sprucelands for weekend riding clinics.
Q: What are the meals like?
A: Down-home country cooking with variety, choices, and flexibility. We even ask campers to be involved in meal planning. They share ideas and recipes; our cooks by the way are wonderful.
Some campers have special dietary requests that we do our best to honor. Others prefer pastas, meat and potatoes, lots of veggies and fruit. We do whatever we can to make campers happy! The big meal is at noon, with a rest hour afterwards. Gives us much needed energy in a busy, busy day.
Vegetarians need only tell the nurse of their dietary preference. The nurse communicates with the kitchen so vegetarian options are always available. Some vegetarians even bring their favorite recipes with them. Oh, and by the way, we usually sing silly songs after our evening meal. Just so you are ready with your best voice!
Q. Can our parents send us junk food?
A. You want to be careful about getting food in the mail. We have skunks, coons, chipmunks, squirrels, mice, and cats that find the crumbs from your goodies. That can present a problem in your cabin. So we beg parents not to send food through the mail!