Overview / Timeline
During registration, you can list the people you would like to be in a cabin with. We guarantee your first mutual choice, or at least one choice if your first choice is not mutual. We also make every effort to honor your other choices (if you have them). If you didn’t sign up with a friend, we will match you up and put you in a great cabin of campers.
During registration, you also have the option to list “do not share” requests for your cabin. We do not get very many of these, and we accommodate them when we do. If for some reason it is not possible to accommodate your “do not share” request, we will call you the week before camp to discuss your options.
Camp participants will receive an email with their cabin assignment and other important information the Friday before camp send-off. We wait until the weekend before each camp starts so that we can accommodate all last-minute changes and new registrations. We also want to assure you that due to our varied cabin sizes, we are usually able to accommodate a lot of your requests.
You can update your friend list at any time using the optional form “Cabinmate Requests” in your “Forms & Documents” center in your Camp Account. You must type in full list of names every time.
Large Friend Groups
Once a friend group grows beyond about 7–8 campers, it becomes very difficult to keep everyone in one cabin while also honoring the many other cabin requests and balancing assignments across the entire camp.
Many returning friend groups have found a solution that works well over multiple summers by sharing with us ahead of time about how they would like to split into two cabins. They do this by updating their cabinmate forms online. This can be done even the week right before camp, once they know for sure who is attending the same session.
Our standard approach for large friend groups is to make sure those campers still get to spend a lot of time together throughout the week. We do this by:
- Placing the friend group in cabins that are next to one another.
- Pairing those cabins for activity rotations each day, so they’ll have the same swim time, games, canteen, and other activities.
- Seating the cabins together at meals (long tables placed end-to-end), so they can enjoy meals and dress up together for meal themes.
- Encouraging the cabin counselors to plan one or two joint evening devotionals during the week.
We have found that this works really well for our larger friend groups, and it gives them lots of time together every day at camp.
