Detroit Summer Camp Guide
Disclosure: This is a compilation of our featured summer camp sponsors. For an even longer list of camps in + around the Detroit area, please see the upcoming ‘The 2016 Summer Camps In + Around Detroit’.
Spring is on the horizon and that means the school year is closing in on us. Soon our kids will be home for the SUMMER. Have you started to think about what you are going to do to keep the kids busy yet? With summer quickly approaching, we couldn’t be more excited to launch our local Summer Camp Guide! We realize how important summer camp is to many families in + around Detroit. Our goal here at DMB is to make your life a little easier and make a list of possible camps you may want to learn a little more about. Metro-Detroit has some wonderful and enriching programs just waiting for your child!
Camp Skyline
Location: 5650 Sandhill Rd Almont, MI 48003 
Dates: June 12 – August 19, 2016
At Skyline, we see children thrive in nature. With opportunities for structured and unstructured play and exploration, supported by compassionate adults, our campers are affirmed and challenged to grow individually and socially. It looks like smiling faces; it sounds like laughter and music; it tastes like excellent meals; it smells like campfires. On 156 acres, just north of the metro area, Skyline is an independent non-profit, operating since 1964. Operating day camps and overnight camps, with sessions for both typical needs and special needs, Skyline’s campers have doubled in the past five summers, but we remain a small camp where we learn everyone’s name and don’t need a megaphone!
Cranbrook Art Museum
Location: 39221 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
Dates: June 20 ‐ August 12, 2016
CAM CAMPS
Cranbrook Art Museum offers art‐intensive summer camps for students entering grades one through eight. Teaching artists guide students as they create and explore art, architecture, and design using Cranbrook’s amazing collections! One week classes available for grades 1-6, two week classes available for grades 7 & 8. Ages: 1st – 8th grade.
Cranbrook Summer Art Institute
Our summer programs are taught by graduates of Cranbrook Academy of Art, and are designed to both bolster creativity and develop fundamental skills. Our teaching artists excel in providing individual attention and innovative instruction – accommodating students of all levels.
Cranbrook Summer Art Institute utilizes the rich resources available at Cranbrook Academy of Art – one of the most respected graduate schools in the world for fine art, design, and architecture. During each two‐week session students attend class for studio time and instruction from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with additional educational opportunities offered for Boarding Students. Day and Boarding options are available. Ages: High School.
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Legacy Athletic Center 
Location 9299 Goble Dr., Brighton, 48166
Dates: June 27- August 4, Monday – Thursday
Michigan’s largest sports complex is reloaded and ready to offer the most jam packed camp of the year. The Legacy Center located in Brighton, is your Summer Camp Head Quarters and hot spot for summer fun! Our camps offer unique sports specific morning sessions with traditional summer camp activities in the afternoon. Get ready for Drone Wars, Knockerball Soccer, Canoe Adventures, and more great activities with our certified camp instructors. With over 220,000 sq ft of state of the art indoor facilities and over 60 acres of premier outdoor playing fields, rain or shine we are ready for a great time. Make this year’s summer camp experience Legendary with the Legacy Center! Give us a call and save up to $40 by registering before May 15th. 810.231.9288
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Leslie Science Center
Location: 1831 Traver Rd, Ann Arbor MI 48105
Dates: Week-long camps every week from June 20 – Sept 1
This summer, experience adventure in the great outdoors! Campers enjoy days filled with hiking, conducting science experiments, and visiting Leslie Science & Nature Center’s resident raptors and critters. Create art, make music, write stories, and enjoy the summer sunshine. Every day has opportunities to learn new skills like fire-building or animal tracking and make new friends as you hike the trails, play scatter ball, or search for creatures in Black Pond. Each week of camp includes sessions for campers who’ve completed Kindergarten through fifth grade. Campers who have completed 2nd and 3rd grade enjoy an off-site field trip and nearly every 4th and 5th grade camp has a field trip and an on-site overnight. And, for the first time, LSNC is offering an optional extended day session every week to support working families and campers who want to stay outside just a little bit longer. Whether you’ve been to LSNC one or one hundred times, adventure and discovery await you this summer!
Troy Recreation Department
Location: 3179 Livernois Troy, MI 48083
Dates: Troy Recreation Department offers more than 40 day camps Monday – Friday, for ages 3–18
The Recreation Department offers high quality leisure programs and services that promote healthy and ACTIVE lifestyles. Engaging programs from dance to martial arts and yoga, day camps as well as sports allow individuals and families the opportunity to meet their physical and social needs. Our 50 Plus and Adaptive programs meet the needs of our diverse Troy Community.
YMCA Metro Detroit
Location:
Boll Family YMCA – Detroit
Farmington Family YMCA – Farmington
Birmingham Family YMCA – Birmingham
Downriver Family YMCA – Southgate
Livonia Family YMCA – Livonia
Macomb Family YMCA – Mt. Clemens
North Oakland Family YMCA – Auburn Hills
Plymouth Family YMCA – Plymouth
Lakeshore Family YMCA – St. Clair Shore
South Oakland Family YMCA – Royal Oak
Carls Family YMCA – Milford
Dates: June 13 – September 2, 2016
Like many programs at the YMCA, day camp focuses on teaching life skills, developing character and making friends. But few environments are as special as camp, where kids become a community as they learn both how to be more independent and how to contribute to a group as they engage in physical, social and educational activities. Every new experience comes with a chance to learn and grow. At the Y, we strive to give every child and teen opportunities to test their own limits and explore their potential. Summer day camp is offered all summer long at various locations throughout Metro Detroit.
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Robot Garage Summer Camps
Location:
Birmingham – 637 S Eton St., Birmingham, MI 48009, Rochester Hills – 172 N Adams, Rochester Hills, MI 48309, Grosse Pointe Park – 15201 Kercheval, GPP, MI 48230
Dates: Camps begin the week of June 27th to July 1st and run until the week of August 29th – Sep 2nd. Various weeks offered at each location with multiple themes.
The Robot Garage offers LEGO Robotic, Engineering and Architecture camps throughout summer for Grades 1-3, 4-5 and 6-8. Sign your kids up for a week they’ll never forget. Camps run Monday-Friday from 9am to 3pm with before and after care available from 8am-6pm for $10 per hour. Summer 2016 Themes are Superheroes In Europe, Minecraft, Robot Discovery, and a very special Top Secret Theme that will be announced through hints as summer approaches. Save $30 before April 1st with Promo Code “Summer2016” and as always Members save 10% on full priced camps.
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Sloan Longway
Location: Sloan Museum – 1221 E. Kearsley Street Flint, 48503
Longways Planetarium – 1310 E. Kearsley Street Flint, 48503
Dates: 40+ camps starting June 27 through August 4, 2016
Avoid the summer slide and register now for exciting and engaging summer camps and programs! This summer Sloan Museum and Longway Planetarium has more than 40 science, history, and geography activities for kids age 4 through 8th grade.
Get all the details and register online at SloanLongway.org.
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SafeSplash Swim School 
Location: Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, Royal, Livonia & Troy
Dates: Various sessions beginning June 6th.
SafeSplash Swim School specializes in teaching swimming to children 6 months old to adults. We are dedicated to developing your child into a confident and happy lifelong swimmer. We have successfully taught over 4 million lessons over the past decade. That is a lot of happy students!
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YMCA Camp Ohiyesa
Location: Holly, MI (Northeast Oakland County)
Dates: Day Camp June 12 – Sept 1; Overnight Camp – June 19 – Aug 13. One week sessions.
For the last 98 years and counting, YMCA Camp Ohiyesa has been how camp was meant to be. This is not a parking lot, school, or basement camp – this is real camp. The 300 acres filled with forests, trails, horses, high adventure, archery, canoeing, swimming, mountain biking, and counselors and campers from all over the world will tell you that. Similarly priced to other “camps”, Ohiyesa campers and parents know the difference. Come join us this summer.
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JCC Day Camps
Location: 6600 W. Maple Rd. West Bloomfield 48322
Dates: June 20 – August 12, 2016
JCC Day Camps features spectacular month-long and week-long camps that offer something for everyone! Located on more than 200 beautiful wooded acres in West Bloomfield, our summer camp is open to children of all backgrounds and abilities—including children with special needs—and includes indoor and outdoor pools, a fishing and boating pond, nature trails, a ropes challenge course, a 600-seat professional theatre, a full gym, an interactive children’s museum, an art gallery, inline hockey center, playgrounds for all ages, air-conditioned facilities, a library and gaga pits. We offer free, chaperoned transportation to and from most areas in Oakland County, are licensed by the state, and are accredited by the American Camp Association.
Kids on Campus (Schoolcraft College)
Location:18600 Haggerty Rd., Livonia MI, 48152
Dates: Camps are July 11-15, July 18-22, July 25-29, August
1-5, August 8-12 from 9AM-3PM and Academic Skill Classes are July 11-21 and July 25-August 4 from 9AM-12PM.
Kids on Campus at Schoolcraft College is a hands-on, fun and exciting summer enrichment program. KOC offers programs for kids in preschool through high school including art, science, computers, career exploration and more! Each summer new and stimulating camps are added such as Under The Circus Big Top: Grades 3 & 4, Digital Art – Get Wired: Grades 5 & 6, Tech Camp – Code Breakers & Minecraft Modders: Grades 7, 8 & 9 to name a few. Join us this summer for a camp experience you will never forget.
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Downriver Youth Performing Arts
Location: Trenton Village Theatre, 2447 W Jefferson Ave, Trenton, MI 48183
Dates: June 28 – August 6, 2016
Summer fine Arts Program running 3 days per week – Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday – featuring Dance, Music, Theatre & Art.
Oakland University
Location: Oakland University, 2200 N. Squirrel Road, Rochester, MI
Dates: Jazz Camp: June 4-5; Piano Camp: June 20-24, 2016
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School of Rock – Farmington
Location: Trenton Village Theatre
Dates: Performance Rock Camp June 27 – July 1
Rock 101 Beginners Camp July 11 – 15
Guitar Building Camp July 25 – July 29
Rock 101 Beginners Camp July 11 – 15
Punk Rock Camp Aug 22- Aug 26.
Be a ROCK STAR! Our 1 week Performance Camps lets you be the rock star, all levels available from ages 8-17. Rock 101 camp for ages 8-11 and Performance Camps 12-17. Play with others, learn about being in a band and have a blast rocking out!
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Berkley Parks & Recreation 
Location: Berkley Ice Arena
Dates: June 20th to September 1st
Summer Day Camps at Berkley Parks and Recreation offer swimming at outdoor local pools, beaches, our firehose sprinkler and waterparks, weekly age appropriate field trips, crafts, sports, movies, ice cream, games, out-to-lunch trips, our own inflatable bouncer, 4-H demos, weekly themes and include a free T-shirt (for group identification on field trips)! Camp is divided into 3 age groups based on their grade in the Fall, KIDS KAMP: Kindergarten – 2nd grade; JUNIOR KAMP: 3rd grade – 4th grade; SENIOR KAMP: 5th grade – 8th grade. Camp hours are from 8:45am -5:00pm Monday through Friday and before-care and after-care are available for an additional fee. Berkley Parks and Recreation summer camps cost $150 per week for residents, $165 per week for non-residents PLUS a 1-time $25 registration fee – 3 and 4 day prices available as well. You can register for ALL 11 weeks of Berkley Summer Day Camp 2016 for $1500 per resident ($1400 if you register by May 27) or $1650 for non-resident ($1550 if you register by May 27).
Total Soccer – Royal Oak
Location: All camps are located at Worden Park in Royal Oak (Behind the tennis courts at Total Soccer)
Dates: Camp #1: June 20 – 24, 9:30 – 12 pm $99* Camp #2: July 11 – 15, 9:30 – 12 pm $99* Camp #3: July 25 – 29, 9:30 – 12 pm $99* Camp #4: Aug 8 – 12, 9:30 – 12 pm $99* (*Teams of 8 or more receive $10 off per player) Family discount: $10 off each child
Total Training Soccer Camps are designed mindful of today’s young players from ages 5 – 12. Our goal is to further the techniques of all participants regardless of their current skill level. We concentrate on the smallest of details and work our camps in a progression style. Eric Scicluna and Chris Kelly from Total Soccer take great pride in helping players improve all facets of their game, no matter their particular level of play. All camps are located at Worden Park in Royal Oak (Behind the tennis courts at Total Soccer). We offer team & family discounts. Players should bring a soccer ball and plenty of water.
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Wildwood Ranch/Camp Burt Shurly
Location: 4909 Brophy Rd, Howell, MI 48855
Dates: Day Camp (ages 4-13): June 13-August 26; Overnight Camp (ages 8-17): June 26-August 12; Horse Camps (ages 9-15): June 18-August 26
Wildwood Ranch is a non-denominational Christian camp. Come explore our high adventure courses, swim and kayak on the lake, take a ride on one of our horses, and enjoy many other activities! Registration is open on our website where you can learn more about all of our exciting options. We look forward to seeing you this summer!
YMCA Camp Stephenson
Location: 1357 W 14 Mile Rd, Madison Heights, MI 48071
Dates: June 13th to Spet 2nd
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