Camp Awosting reviews

My two sons have attended Awosting for 6 years. If you are seeking a "real" camp experience, this is it! A beautiful rustic campus on a clean, clear lake with every kind of activity for every kind of boy...rugged but comfortable accommodations and caring experienced staffers from around the world. It is owned by a family that has been in the camping business for decades. Their dedication and success at providing an experience that happy life-long memories are built on is second to none. If you are looking for posh, pass this one by. If you are looking for a place where your boys can begin the journey to manhood in a safe, supportive, exciting, fun environment, don't look anywhere else. p.s. -- the food and snacks are plentiful with plenty of healthy choices available along with other more indulgent choices. Good eating habits are encouraged and because there are so many opportunities and variations of exercise, your boys will come home fit and well fed. Everything is just wonderful!

Our son has been to Awosting the last 3 summers. His experience can best be summed up by him stating "I am home" as we drove down the camp road this summer. The staff are amazing - very well trained and attentive to the different needs of growing boys. The directors the boys busy from morning to dusk with the traditional camp stuff and a few very creative activities. The facilities are rustic, but the directors have recently been upgrading quite a bit and it really shows. Just a warm, friendly, fun environment. We have referred several families over the past few years and everyone has been very pleased with their experiences as well. Great addition this year with the soccer and waterskiing sessions - I wish my son could have attended both, but was only there for one of them. I highly recommend this camp.

My son went to Awosting for the last two summers and has loved every minute. It builds character, responsibility, and wonderful socialization skills. I wish my son had started many years ago. Kids are encouraged to go outside their comfort zones, close personal attention is given to each boy, the staff is abundant and caring, and activities are fun. It is very well-managed and I always felt confident that my son was in the best of hands. What more could a parent want? We dropped him off worried that we might have to go back and get him. Instead he asked for two extra weeks -both summers! It is an old fashioned kind of place, where healthy activities and friendships are emphasized. Sports are quite varied. The staff is terrific and incredibly creative and fun. They clearly care about the boys. A lovely lakeside setting, with many activities, from archery to rowing. My son never seemed the camp type, and now Awosting is what he looks forward to. Great place; highly recommend.

I have been going to camp awosting for most of my life. I love this camp so much and talk about it all the time that my friends at home get sick of it. My cabin mates have been in the same cabin as me since 2006 so they are some of the best friends that I have. I visit them throughout the year and I Skype with the a lot. I made friends from new York to England to Japan. The counselors are awesome and treat you very very well. The activities that awosting offers are fantastic. The new zipline that is being added next year will be awesome!! Sadly my time as a camper has come to an end. I have put in a cit application and fingers crossed it will be accepted. I don't know what I would do with my summer if I wasn't at camp. Everything about camp is amazing, from the people to the activities to the dances with chinqueka ;). I could go on and on about how amazing camp awosting is but why don't you send your kid there and let them tell you themselves.

As a camper for 7 summers, though sadly past my camper days, I can say without reservation that Awosting is a special place. Albeit somewhat pricey, the value is still quite good--a large staff provides a range of activities on a well kept facility for a relatively small number of campers; price comes with the territory. If nothing else, camp is a tradition; Awosting has been in the same family for decades and many staff and campers return year after year, providing an increasingly meaningful and enriching experience. In fact, many staff are former campers, meaning they're particularly invested in an knowledgeable of the campers' experiences. Moreover, summer in Litchfield is beautiful and Bantam Lake is gorgeous. Some campers and staff are international (the UK is especially well represented) and spending time with them helps campers to develop an international sense. Awosting is a fun, safe, and caring environment; and I can't recommend Awosting highly enough.

I sent my two sons here this past summer for the first time and they had a great time! They mainly enjoyed the huge variety of activities, from waterskiing to go karts to drama to fencing to a ropes course... They seemed to do something new every day! I was worried about homesickness since it was their first time away from home, but the staff were great at keeping them busy and very happy! The admin were great too at keeping the lines of communication open the whole time my kids were there. My older son made some lifelong friends and really looked up to the staff as role models. I will be sending both kids again next summer for a longer session!

I was shocked at the facilities at Awosting. The cabins were extremely unsanitary, and the care given to the children was terrible. I would absolutely not return, and would definitely not recommend this camp to anyone!

Awosting is actually a fantastic place to send your son. The staff are from all over the world, typically England/New Zealand areas, so your child will get a taste of other cultures. The campers are from all over too-this past summer, there were boys from China, France, Spain, Portugal/Brazil, and Venezuela. Your son will make friends that will last a lifetime from all corners of the world. The facilities are great - 16 cabins, working plumbing and electricity in each. Plus, the place is HUGE. Staff are always on hand/on patrol/running activities so your child stays safe. Some of the activities; waterskiing, sailing, canoeing (WAR CANOE!), rowing, swimming, fishing, mountain biking, gokarts/minibikes, ceramics, arts and crafts, drama, music, fencing, woodshop, archery, golf, sports (all sorts of them!), photography, video, journalism, and a climbing wall+low ropes course. There's an average 1:5 ratio of counselors to campers, and though it may be a little expensive-it's worth it!

NEVER again!!!! Too much money-which is ALL the Ebner's care about!!!!

my favorite place in the entire world. made the best friends here and go back year after year to spend the summers with them. kenwood is the best place <3 cant wait to go back! 06757 <3

my son has been to awosting 4 years this year he will be a CIT he loves it he has made many great friends from all over. Its an outdoorsy camp if your looking for prim and proper this isnt the place BUT its not supose to be its camp.My 10 year old daughter goes to the sister camp chiqueka this is her 3rd year she loves it She makes friends as soon as she gets there. She will continue to go for many years

Overpriced and poorly maintained site. My son went and will NOT be returning. We are looking at a "Y" camp for next summer with the same activities and half the price.

This will be my nineth year at the sister camp to Awosting, which is called chinqueka. You can send your daughter there and your son to Awosting. Both camps are run by the same great family, called the Ebners. They have been running Awosting for 100+ years and always have kids coming back-like me-so they have to be doing something right. About two years ago they redid all of the cabins at both camps with fresh paint and carpets. You as a camper need to take care of the dust problem, so dont complain. Yes some counselors have thick accents but you come to understand them, unless youre a brat and defy everything anybody else says. Please do not go to the camps if you get homesick easily. Nobody ever really knows what to do with a homesick camper. Otherwise, food is great. Facilities have gotten better but may need some more clorox. Staff is great as they all are personally interviewed by the Admin(Ebners) who make great choices. So get up and send your son to Awosting. Like rly,rite now!

i went here on a field trip and i loved it so much they were really organized and all about safety and fun, they had awesome activities, like water trampolining and banana boating. i would highly recoomend it.

though there are many things to keep kids occupied and to make sure they have fun, the counselors aren't very responsible and the camp really has no idea what goes on wiht the kids. pretty disorginized, though a hell of a lot of fun

It is a good camp, although it can be very busy.