Book your Family Adventure !
GET AWAY FROM IT ALL AND BACK TO NATURE
It’s time to get back to the fresh air of the outdoors! Family Camp offers a chance for you and your family to explore our 1000 acres. Every morning, you’ll wake up to the birds singing and the sun burning off the morning fog around the lake. Every night, you’ll watch fireflies dance and stars twinkle.
Join us for some final summer adventures – swimming, canoeing, ropes course, archery, campfires, games and more! It’s everything we love about camp, but for the whole family!
Family camp 2024
Isn’t it time to get back to the fresh air of the outdoors?
Family Camp offers a chance for you and your family to explore our 1000 acres. Every morning, you’ll wake up to the birds singing and the sun burning off the morning fog around the lake. Every night, you’ll watch fireflies dance and star twinkle. The kids can run and play, the parents can sit back and relax, and everyone can enjoy everything nature has to offer.
Wildlife is definitely a part of the adventure at Trail Blazers. During your stay, you may see some unusual birds, wild turkeys, foxes, raccoons, and possibly even a black bear!
Our Family Camp guests stay in our smallcamps. Each smallcamp has multiple shelters, our traditional canvas shelters, along with an outhouse and a campfire circle.
Please note – Trail Blazers does not have cabins. Our rustic site does not have the capacity to handle camper vans and other kinds of recreational vehicles (RVs).
The waterfront bathhouses will be available for showers and indoor plumbing.
While each small camp has a fire site, cooking is not permitted for safety reasons. Meals will be prepared and served from the Great Hall. In addition, we have two outdoor cook sites available for your use.
At Trail Blazers, getting back to nature also includes getting back to hearty, healthy, home-cooked meals. We will provide three meals a day, fresh from the camp kitchen.
For breakfast, we will feature hot breakfast service each morning.
For lunch, meals will be prepared and served in the Great Hall, or can be packed out for you to take with you and have your lunch anywhere you choose.
For dinner, meals will be in or around the Great Hall. Alternatively, you can also take out your meal and eat around the Great Lawn or one of our picnic tables.
Of course, we will have plenty of s’mores supplies for an after dinner treat!
Lake Mashipacong is an incredible sight. Along with the surrounding forests, you will find many moments to be worthy of an Instagram post. Of course, we want you to capture memories, but we encourage you to unplug and enjoy nature.
Our smallcamps do not have electricity.
If you do bring electronics, they may be charged in the Great Hall. Electronics and expensive items should not be left unattended.
We appreciate the value of creating a special space where dads and other male figures can bond with their kids and with other dads. Dads and Kids Camp is August 23-25. Learn more at trailblazers.org/dads-camp.
Family Camp Dates for 2024:
Three Night Labor Day Weekend Package: Friday, August 30 – Monday, September 2
(Arrival after 3pm on Friday and departure by Noon on Monday)
Shelters sleep up to 3 people. You may be sharing the camp site with other families.
We have 3 sites available for reservation: Farmers, Pixies & Pathfinders.
More sites may become available as bookings fill up.
FIRST THINGS FIRST: BEARS
You cannot have any open food in your camp.
Food, even in sealed containers or pre-wrapped, WILL attract bears to your camp. Family campers may keep an airtight cooler in their smallcamp for snacks or drinks. You can also store food in the Great Hall.
Toiletries also attract bears. Any soap, toothpaste, etc. should be locked in the green & yellow “ bear box” that we will provide. This is the most important rule of Family Camp!
Some items you may want to bring to camp:
PACKING LIST:
OPTIONAL – Sleeping bags and pillows are optional. There are some available at camp but you are welcome to bring your own.
Regarding alcoholic beverages – While adults may bring alcoholic beverages to camp, please do not bring any glasswear. There is to be no glass around camp.
No alcohol is to be consumed at the waterfront and guests should not enter the water under the influence.
Intoxicated behavior will not be accepted in any area at camp and you will be asked to leave.
There are NO PETS allowed at Family Camp.
The Family Camp Waiver for 2024 is agreed to during registration.
The lead member of your party completing the registration accepts responsibility for all members in their group.
Our Family Camp Guest Rules guide will be posted shortly and will be emailed to families before attending.
What Our Families Say
“We have just returned home from our Trail Blazers family camping experience and our hearts, minds, souls… and stomachs have been filled. It’s hard to put into words what we have just experienced. It was so powerful to escape the trappings of the modern world and retreat into the 1,000 acres surrounding Lake Mashipacong.” ~ Family Camp Guest
“Our Trail Blazers weekend was perfect. We weren’t exactly sure what to expect, but I’m so glad we decided to do this. I knew we had made the right decision when my daughter asked when we were coming back!” ~ Parent