Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5
What's New for 2024
  • How Was Camp?
  • Cost of Camp
  • Lantern Family BBQ
  • Themes
  • Session #1
  • Session #2
  • Session #3
  • Session #4
  • BIG Session
  • Excited Staff



Standard Camp Rate (Sessions 1-4) - $795

BIG Session (Session 5) - $2890

Polar Bear Rate 11/15/23 - 12/31/23
$750 for Sessions 1-4
$2650 for Session 5

4-H/Rutgers Discount – Minus $25 ($75 for Session 5)

We believe every child should have the chance to go to sleepaway camp. If your family is facing financial hardship or difficulties, please call the Camp Office at 973-948-3550 to discuss the details of applying for an L.G. Cook 4-H Camp Campership or click here to go to our Campership application.

Sunday, June 30th

We kick-off the summer season with our Lantern BBQ for families who have referred brand-new campers to 4-H Camp.

More information about the Lantern Family program can be found here

Lantern BBQ

Themes are like the spice of a Summer Camp week, a way for us to “switch it up a bit” for each session of the season. 95% of every Camp week features the same great classic Camp schedule and activities, but each theme brings its own unique twist. Every Wednesday night we’ll have a theme activity, and the theme will always dictate Friday afternoon’s culminating all-camp game. The theme will also influence our campfires, talent shows, and what crazy costumes our counselors might be donning that week. We always recommend parents pick the session that fits their schedule best, but if a specific theme suits your camper, that just might be the best week for them to come to Camp!


July 1st - 6th

Area '51

Summer 2024 starts with a sci-fi spectacular! We’ll open our division of interstellar hijinks investigation, Area ‘51 (cause Camp was founded in 1951, of course) to deal with some wacky extraterrestrials, fascinating aliens, brave interstellar explorers, and whatever else it is that may be out there. At 4-H Camp, when you stare up at a mid-July crystal clear night sky, though our feet may be firmly planted on the shores of Lake Shawanni, you get quite a view of the stars.

For Session #1, 2024 we are offering an optional early Sunday Drop-Off for just $50 per camper. Session #1 can start their week (and all of Summer 2024) an evening early by arriving Sunday evening.
July 8th - 13th

Spy Week

A session full of exciting intrigue, code words, hidden plans, and surprising twists and turns! Classified information is up for grabs and counselor double agents will need to be discovered, all while there will be mysteries to be solved and top secret missions to be both foiled and accomplished. The Camp Spirit test just might need to be hauled out again to determine who at camp is friend and who is foe. (Disclaimer: we all wind up being friends.)
July 15th - 20th

CHAOS!

CHAOS returns to 4-H Camp! Yes, our camper-favorite prank-fest session is back. As much as we’ll try to keep things calm and orderly with our Wednesday Night “PrankBusters” activity, chances are that nothing can seem to curtail the unpredictable zaniness…until near the end of the week when we hold a Kangaroo Court and send the counselors found guiltiest of pulling the prankiest of pranks through the patented Chaos Machine. No one can ever tell exactly what Chaos Week will bring...but it’s a safe bet that some of the staff will end up covered in ice cream.
July 22nd - 27th

Epic Tales of Mythic Legends

We love storytelling here at 4-H Camp, and we’re bringing all the stories we can find and then some to Epic Tales of Mythic Legends week! Knights, castles, dragons, royal courts and all the medieval drama that comes with ‘em? Sure thing! Wizards, unicorns, and other mystical fairy tale creatures galore? You know it! Woodland lore, forest folktales, lake adventures, raccoon raconteurs? Why in the world not!? 4-H Camp runs wild on wild imagination, and we sure won’t be lacking any of it during Session #4, because this week will once again be...EPIC. And mythic. And legendary. And you get the idea.
July 31st - August 17th

THE BIG SESSION



This August, we are offering our 4th annual BIG SESSION. Designed for returning campers who have already loved their time at 4-H Camp in the past (or new campers who are confident that 4-H Camp is the place for them to spend most of a month), simply put, it’s a lot MORE CAMP. If the one-week sessions are a go-go-go “event”, then the Big Session is all about the “camp lifestyle” where campers get the opportunity to just enjoy residing at 4-H Camp for an extended period of time. Featuring all the themes and activities from earlier in the summer, our BIG classes, and a ton of activities exclusive to our Big Session, we build a special kind of community during S’moregasbord that can only be accomplished in 18 straight days at 4-H Camp.

Click here for more details on the Big Session.