A Typical Day at
Overnight Camp
June 9, 2023
Camp ROYAL fosters a healthy environment where kids 9-17 have fun and grow in their faith. We do this with intentional mission focused programming and by creating a space where we can guide our campers in progression, confidence, and consistency in their sport.
Let's look at a typical Tuesday at Camp ROYAL. Our day starts at 7:30 when the campers get time to do an early morning shower or get ready for breakfast, served at 8. Following breakfast, our guided stretching session is a meaningful way to mitigate injuries for kids who are riding hard on their scooters, mountain bikes, or skateboards.
How Do You Do Backflips?
After stretching, we head right into instruction with our coaching time. By splitting the athletes into their respective disciplines, we allow the coaches to work one-on-one with the kids — our 1:10 coach to camper ratio grants us the opportunity for this. ROYAL's pro athlete coaches are one of the reasons boys and girls come back summer after summer. If you want to learn how to do backflips and ride with people like Cody Flom & Jud Heald, our Christian summer camp is the place to be!
Free time follows from 10:30-12. Kids try their new tricks and what they learned in instruction on one of our many parks.
Following free time, we have lunch at ACE Adventure Resort's restaurant — The Lost Paddle.
After lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, we go directly to ACE Adventure Waterpark! From 1-4, we're over at the waterpark, and the campers enjoy many of the activities on the lake. ACE Waterpark has awesome inflatables, a splash pad, an obstacle course, and the legendary blob, an enormous inflatable that launches participants up into the air and then into the water.
For many campers, this is what they most look forward to; it's a ton of fun. After we return from ACE, boys and girls have time to change before dinner at 5.
After dinner, we head down to the church for games while our staff gets prepped for club time.
Club is a focal point each day at camp.
Club is a guided party going after what matters most. Kids get to be seen and corporately champion each other as we look back at the day's adventures, challenges, and accomplishments. Club is designed to have an honest and clear story throughout the six days of camp. We meet kids wherever they are in their belief or disbelief in Jesus when they show up at camp.
We begin the narrative with loving curiosity about their stories about themselves, their relationships, and God. From this incredibly relevant place, we move into experiencing the kindness and wildness of Jesus, showing us what it means to find our Identity in Him. Each club ends with setting up the most critical conversations that each cabin will share in the evening.
Cabin Time
Cabin Time allows for a deeper conversation within the group of people you spend 70 percent of your day with. This time allows kids to be vulnerable with each other and let them be themselves in hopes of tearing down the walls they've put up. There is no time limit put on this part of the day because they go right into another free-time period after Cabin Time.
At 9:15, all the parks shut down, and it's time for campers to shower and get ready for bed. Then at 10 PM, it's lights out for the camp... and we start it all over the next day!
Learn More About ROYAL
Every summer we offer a series of 1 week overnight & day camps with pro athletes, plus our fall High Performance Camp, Slopestyle MTB Pro-Am, and an after school program.
