Camp Highlands for Boys is a traditional boys-only overnight camp near Sayner in northern Wisconsin, operating since 1904 on 2,600 feet of lakeshore. About 150 campers ages 8-17 attend three-, four-, or seven-week unplugged sessions with activities including wakeboarding, sailing, adventure ropes, most sports, and wilderness canoeing and hiking trips.
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★★★★★Chuck WinklerReally great memories from 1979 Star Wars came out and we took a bus to see it. Awesome fishing top notch counselors never forgot
★★★★★Collin WhitlockA magical place where both campers and counselors grow within themselves alongside an ever growing community of support, challenge, and self-fulfillment.
★★★★★Scott LevineI first came to Camp Highlands as a boy. It shaped me in ways I didn’t fully understand until decades later. The lake, the woods, the friendships forged in cabins. Those experiences became a quiet foundation I carried through building a career, raising a family, and navigating the complexities of adult life. Years later, I returned as a counselor. Not as a young man this time, but as someone in his 50s looking for something he couldn’t find in a boardroom. I’ve now come back multiple summers, and each time the place teaches me something new about presence, about simplicity, about what actually matters when you strip everything else away. Now my son is a camper at Highlands and my daughter is at nearby Red Pine Camp for Girls. My wife gets an empty house for a month every summer, which may be the greatest gift of all. And for a full month, nobody in our family is looking at a screen. Not one complaint. Watching my kids discover the same northwoods traditions that shaped me is one of the more meaningful experiences of my life. The fact that this place can hold all three chapters of mine, the boy I was, the man I’ve become, and the father I’m trying to be, says everything about what Camp Highlands really is. It’s not just a summer camp. It’s a place that stays with you and, if you’re lucky, welcomes you back when you need it most.
★★★★★Tom McDonaldAmazing place, our family has now sent three boys in total. All of them loved it and came back home with great manners and self confidence.
★★★★★Jeremy ArcherA great place for boys to unplug and connect with a different rhythm of life. Teaches kindness, curiousity, self-reliance, and love of the natural world. I've sent my son for years and wish we had done so sooner.