Camp Hochelaga Centennial on the Campgrounds & Open House (+ Alum Reunion!)

Join us as we celebrate 100 Years together on our campgrounds! This Centennial Event & Open House is available and open to folks of all ages - both those who are new to our community, and those who are looking for time to reconnect at a camp they love.

A donation of $25 is suggested for entry of each adult attending our Centennial & Open House.

As we celebrate 100 years on our current campgrounds, and prepare for 100 more summers of Hochelaga spirit and joy, we're excited to share that we will have videographers on-site for this event. They will be capturing footage from the day, as well as asking for individual interviews. If you do not wish for you (and/or your child) to be included in this, we will have stickers available to wear that will note this for their team. If you have any questions, please contact Christine (Camp Director) at [email protected].

Activities will be open across camp including:

-Guided Camp Tours (for campers and for anyone!)

-Exploring our 100+ year history through our camp LOGs ("yearbooks" essentially), photos, and archived SCAMPs (our weekly newsletter by campers, for campers)

-Archery & Axe Throwing Lessons (*children under 13 must be accompanied by an adult to participate)

-Arts & Crafts (including the opportunity to paint and decorate a birdhouse or fairy house that can be hidden around camp)

-Sports & Games (including pickle ball & gaga ball!)

-Snacks, ceremony, celebration, community & more!

Our complete agenda can be found below.

ARE YOU A HOCHELAGA ALUM? We would love to also invite you to an Alumnae Reunion at camp on JUNE 5 prior to our Centennial and Open House. All alums are invited to join us for the afternoon on June 5 (2pm - 6pm**), and alums who would like to sleepover the night at camp are invited to do so (seperate ticket option from Centennial & Open House).

A donation of $50 is suggested per person attending our Alum Overnight.

If you have any questions please contact our Camp Director, Christine ([email protected])

*includes former campers and staff from Hochelaga at any point in time.

**Friday dinner will be served at 6pm. To ensure we have enough of the planned meal for the evening (with dietary options as requested ahead of time), please select our Alum Overnight option so we can best prepare for your visit. We will have room to join if folks arrive at camp earlier and want to extend their day.

Info: Greeters will be available to support arrival and check-in of all alums joining us. All alums will be asked to check-in by our Lodge, and then parking will be available in Senior Field. This time will be used to settling into camp, and settling into cabins for those joining us overnight.

Info: In 2025, at the suggestion of one of Hochelaga's own alums, we began installing a Memorial Birdhouse Walk at camp as a way to remember and honor alums who are no longer with us. Anyone who would like to join our Camp Director as we install new birdhouses to this space (located on the path from middler line to the front gate). If there is a camp alum who's passed who you would like to sponsor a birdhouse for, please complete the form via the following link to be included in our 2026 installation: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/jeagqmq/alumbirdhouses

Info: This time is primarily intended for camp friends to reconnect and enjoy their time together in the camp space. Activities will be open for folks to pop into and out of at their leisure. Activities that will be open will include: Contributing to a community art project which will be installed at camp over the summer to celebrate our 2026 theme* Rainbows (arts & crafts); pickleball (sports courts); axe throwing (field at the top of the hill). (*Themes were introduced to camp in summer 2024, "Butterfly Summer." Themes relate to our values at camp, and are intended to inspire class creation each season to support continued offerings of unique programming. "Rainbows" is a theme suggested by one of our 2025 upper-mids who shared their reasoning for the theme as "each camper and person is unique and wonderful in their own special way, and then when we all come together we create something beautiful - like a rainbow.")

Info: We will lead a flag lowering ceremony prior to dinner, as is tradition at Hochelaga. We will also use this time to share about how this, and some other camp traditions have evolved to meet the needs of our current campers. Any alums who will not be staying for meals and overnight will be asked to leave at this time (you'll be able to add-on the overnight once arrived at camp as well, should your mind or plans change).

Info: Please contact Christine ([email protected]) if you have any allergens or dietary preferences that should be passed along to our kitchen team.

Info: The water will be chilly, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy an evening on the lake under the stars together (lifeguard/s will be on duty).

Info: This time can be shaped how alums would like it. A bonfire will be open for all to access beginning around 8PM. This time can be used to warm up and chit chat around the fire; sharing camp memories and tales; and singing TAPs songs of course.

Info: If you are NOT planning to stay for the centennial, we ask that alums leave by 9:30am, or after 11am to help control incoming and outgoing traffic.

Info: Please contact Christine ([email protected]) if you have any allergens or dietary preferences that should be passed along to our kitchen team.

Info: All guests will be greeted by staff, checked-in (for those already RSVP'd) or registration (for those who have not already RSVP'd via Eventbrite). Parking will be available on-site.

Info: Throughout the day, areas of camp will be set up to remember, honor, and celebrate our over 100 years of history, and our 100 years on our current campgrounds. These will be marked on maps so that folks can explore camp's history at their leisure throughout the day, or just as they move about location to location.

Info: Located in our Arts & Crafts building (map will be available, and staff on-site to help guide and answer questions). Additional arts & crafts activities will also be available to access including traditional Friendship Bracelet Making, and contributing to our 2026 Rainbow themed Community Art Project which will be installed during our upcoming season at camp. "Rainbow" was a theme suggested by one of our 2025 upper-mids who shared their reasoning for the theme as "each camper and person is unique and wonderful in their own special way, and then when we all come together we create something beautiful - like a rainbow."

Info: All camp tours will be open to all attending our Centennial & Open House. Our staff tour guides will ask at the start of each group for how many joining represent overnight camper households, day camper households, alumnae, or other connection to camp. This way we can try to ensure information on each tour can be relevant and valuable to those attending.

Info: Our Camp Director, Christine Perry, will share some gratitudes and recognitions as we celebrate 100 summers of history on our current camp grounds, and our current Executive Director, Sultana Khan will help guide us all as we dream up what our next 100 years together in South Hero can look like.

Info: Activities that will be available include: Archery, Axe Throwing, and Kayaking. All activities will be staffed by Camp Hochelaga. We ask that all minors (under 18 years old) are accompanied to activities by an adult to participate.

Info: All camp tours will be open to all attending our Centennial & Open House. Our staff tour guides will ask at the start of each group for how many joining represent overnight camper households, day camper households, alumnae, or other connection to camp. This way we can try to ensure information on each tour can be relevant and valuable to those attending.

Info: This will be our LAST TOUR offered on this day. All camp tours will be open to all attending our Centennial & Open House. Our staff tour guides will ask at the start of each group for how many joining represent overnight camper households, day camper households, alumnae, or other connection to camp. This way we can try to ensure information on each tour can be relevant and valuable to those attending.

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