Most sleepaway camps, as of now, are saying they intend to open this summer—with extreme changes in order to safeguard campers and staff.
It may not be the first industry anyone has thought of amidst the economic devastation triggered by coronavirus, but summer camps have watched the pandemic unfold with a specific fear: that camp might not open.
Those changes will make many camps look very different: eight-week and seven-week camps possibly shrinking their season to five weeks or four weeks; testing staff and campers when they arrive; hiring extra medical staff; fully isolating camp for the whole summer, which means no outdoor trips, no intercamp sports, no dances with other camps, and no staff nights out; adding extra meal shifts to have fewer kids in the dining hall at once; and potentially shrinking the number of beds per bunk.
As some states like Florida, Georgia, and Texas are already beginning to reopen their economies, the camp landscape will not look uniform nationally: some states already know they can have camp go on as usual, while other states have to wait and see. With U.S. coronavirus cases now heavily concentrated on the East Coast, Maine camps are particularly anxious as they await official camp guidelines from the state and the CDC, widely expected to come by May 1. Based on that timing, many Maine camps expect to make final decisions on whether and when they’ll open by May 15, since that’s around when they have to start placing bulk orders of food and supplies.
Story continuesAnxiety over different approachesMaine camp owners and directors are on weekly Zoom calls in which they discuss the latest news and share their updated thinking. Some are concerned that the guidelines coming from the state and the CDC won’t give a clear “yes” or “no” but will leave it up to the individual camps to make their own choice about opening. That will mean some camps open and some don’t.
Then there’s the issue of getting the kids to camp safely in the first place: Jay Jacobs, owner of Timber Lake Camp in New York, says he is considering chartering a private plane to bring campers from Florida.
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