Camp
Camping at the Y offers an Experience for children and teens, not just care.
Exploring nature, swimming, playing games and making new friends are just some aspects of the experience of participating in Day Camp. As summer approaches, the Bridgeport Y reminds parents that camping is a unique and invaluable experience for children and teens.
The Y has plans for the summer and is gearing up for summer adventures that will keep kids active, engaged and healthy all summer long. Summer is the ideal time for kids to get up, get out and explore!
Four Ways to Get the Most Out of Summer Camp
Find Your Adventure
Summer is a time for kids to explore and expand the limits of their imagination. At Y summer camp, every day is a new adventure!
Find Your Spark
Kids discover hidden talents and passions they never knew they had.
Find Your Circle
At the Y, their experience is like none other. Kids come away with new skills, confidence and friendships that broaden their perspectives and strengthen their character.
Find Your Friends
At YMCA camp, kids will make new friends and have tons of fun as they explore new adventures each day!
The Bridgeport Y provides exciting and educational camp programming for children and teens, and their parents, at our Traditional Day Camp. At YMCA Day Camp, kids are in a welcoming environment where they can belong, build relationships and lasting friendships, develop character and discover their potential.
To ensure that every child and teen has the chance to go to camp, the Bridgeport Y offers financial assistance to those in need. We believe that no one should be turned away because of their inability to pay. Come, let us help!
Summer Day Camp
SUMMER is a time for kids to be kids!
Y Day Camp is the place to make every precious summer day a great one! Because the YMCA believes all kids have great potential and deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve.
The Bridgeport YMCA Summer Day Camp provides kids with a safe, healthy, familiar, and fun-filled environment for them to explore, build confidence, develop skills, make lasting friendships and memories so they can grow as individuals and leaders. For families, day camp offers a peace of mind knowing that your child is in a safe and enriching place.
Learn more: 2025 Bridgeport YMCA Day Camp Brochure and 2025 Bridgeport YMCA Day Camp Parent Handbook
To register, please fill out the Registration Packet: 2025 Bridgeport YMCA Day Camp Registration Packet-Fillable
If your child will require special assistance or medicine while at camp, these forms may also be required: Individual Care Plan_Medicine Authorization.
If you would like to apply for financial assistance, please fill submit this application: CCCY-Financial-Assistance-Application_C4K-Forms
Sleepaway Camp!
YMCA Camp Hi-Rock is a sleepaway located in Western Massachusetts. We are nestled among 1,000 acres in the Berkshire Mountains, surrounded by conservation forest, and centered around our pristine, private, ninety-acre lake. This gives us the ideal backdrop for the wide variety of activities we offer, which include swimming, climbing, water skiing, archery, sailing and arts & crafts among many others. Camp Hi-Rock is dedicated to the growth and development of all of the participants we serve. We seek to help each camper develop his or her sense of personal worth and responsibility as a cooperative member of a group. In addition, we want campers to discover, learn, cultivate new skills, develop healthy lifestyles, create meaningful relationships, and become more caring, honest, respectful and responsible people.
Please visit us at the Bridgeport YMCA for a drop-in information session to speak face to face with a camp representative, view camp videos and slides, and learn more!
WHEN: Tuesday, March 18, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Can’t make it? Please check out our website for alternative dates and locations including virtual information sessions and open houses on camp in the spring: Click here
2025 DAY CAMP REGISTRATION
YMCA Summer Day Camp is an experience like none other. Kids come away with new skills, confidence and friendships that broaden their perspectives and strengthen their character.
DAY CAMP REGISTRATION OPENS for all Central Connecticut Coast YMCA members on February 1, 2025; for Program Participants and Members of other Ys on February 15, 2025. Register early! So that we can maintain camper to staff ratios, we may have session waiting lists.
YMCA Camp Hi-Rock
Overnight Camp with Character
Programs with Purpose
At the top of Mount Washington, at the end of a winding dirt road, lies Camp Hi-Rock. For more than sixty years, countless children, families, and adults, young and old, have been gathering in this spot to learn from each other, themselves, and their inspiring surroundings. Explore what Camp Hi-Rock has to offer! Click Here
Nestled in 1,000 acres of the Berkshire Mountains, surrounded by conservation forest, and centered around our pristine, private, ninety acre lake, YMCA Camp Hi-Rock enjoys a truly magnificent location. While at Hi-Rock, campers learn to act as stewards not only of the camp’s natural setting, but of the global environment in which they live.
In the fall, winter, and spring, Hi-Rock offers many meaningful programs for individuals, groups, and families, in addition to hosting groups such as scout troops, family reunions, and school and youth group retreats. Year-round, our wide range of facilities including a spacious dining hall, arts and crafts lodge, recreation lodges, rustic cabins, and waterfront building are the perfect complement to your group’s programming needs.
Located less than 30 minutes from Great Barrington, MA and about 2.5 hours from both Boston and New York City, our majestic location is a comfortable drive from most major cities in the northeast.