Camp Huckins

★★★★★Carlos de Freitas

Best family camp around. Our family has been going for the last six years and we always have a great time!

★★★★★Jeff Darcy

I admit I'm biased. My family has been attending Family Camp at the end of the regular season for 17 years. We keep coming back because it's a special vibe. There are many activities, especially in/on/around the water. It's all laid back and everyone looks out for all the kids together (though frankly all but the newest/youngest are fine on their own). The food is great. On top of all that it's a bargain. My wife also has ten years as a regular camper and counselor, my daughter seven as a camper. That's a *lot* of time there, and I think that kind of says it all.

★★★★★Jack Norton

Beautiful camp , great program for kids and awesome counselors

★HannaStreetMusic

I went to Camp Huckins when I was in middle school from summers 2011-2012. I genuinely tried so hard to like it because I had friends who went and loved it. Unfortunately, it was the most horrific experience I have ever had at a summer theatre camp. The first issue I had was how the camp was run logistically. First of all, why they think having pointless divisional activities that 0% of the campers, (and counselors) wanted to do was a good idea, is beyond me. They really should’ve considered activities most people would find fun, but unfortunately they didn’t. The second issue I had was the horrendous amount of bullying I received. Both years I was there, there were multiple girls in my cabin who were in “the popular crowd” and if you were not a part of that crowd, you were completely left alone in the dust and labeled as a loser. Girls were constantly ganging up on me and none of the adults were doing anything about it despite their “very strict no bullying policy.” Which leads me to my last and biggest issue. Almost all of the counselors and staff were extremely rude and mean to the campers. There were multiple days where I or other campers were bawling hysterically in our bunks at night because we were yelled at so bad or embarrassed publicly by the other adult staff members in front of the entire camp. They also play EXTREME favorites and it’s very obvious if you are not one of their favorites. Unless your child is a part of the cool kids crowd, don’t count on them having a good time at this place. It’s still possible they might, but unfortunately, I was not one of those people. Camp Huckins is the only camp I regret going to in my childhood.

★★Hannah

I left Huckins after my third year (my first year as a senior), during which, despite the camp’s supposed hardcore policy, I got horrifically bullied. One person in particular instigated it, making up lies and spreading rumors until I was entirely friendless and isolated. Although I never went to my counselors to complain, there reaches a point when you should notice your camper is a social pariah, constantly forced to sit in the cabin alone while everyone else is out, and ask if anything is wrong. And, while I can understand not noticing everything, I cannot understand their blatant favoritism and rude behavior. The two counselors I had for two weeks each (I was there for a month, and one of the counselors switched over) were nice, but the one there for the whole month was not. She clearly had both favorite and least favorite campers, and treated them very differently. She was huffy and rude to the ones she didn’t like, and doting, excessively so, to the ones she did. She would lend her clothes without second thought to the girls she liked, even offer them up without prompting, but if I ever asked I was immediately shut down. While I think my experiences were on the extreme end of the spectrum, I also know that spectrum is part of the rule, not the exception. Every year, in every cabin, there is at least one girl, maybe two, who is isolated and labeled as a “loser.” People in the cabin laugh at her and wonder why she even got a spot at the camp. It’s a systemic issue that was never addressed, at least while I was there. That being said, I don’t think Huckins is a fundamentally bad place. I think there are excellence counselors in higher supply than there are bad. I know a lot of people who have gone for a nearly a decade and loved every moment of it. If your child is popular, pretty, and quick to make friends, she’ll thrive there. If she’s not, she might still, but but I certainly didn’t.