FAQs

We welcome girls from age 7 to 16.

Cabin groups have three scheduled morning activities and two elective afternoon activities. One morning activity is always a swimming or boating lesson. Girls choose their electives everyday after lunch.

Campers live in carpeted cabins with girls their age and with at least two counselors. All cabins have electricity, screens, bathrooms with toilets and sinks. Private shower houses are centrally located.

We have about 150 girls on site during each 2-week session.

Many of our girls come to camp not knowing anyone, but one of the best parts of camp is making new friends! And it doesn’t take long – a few minutes! We have a lot of outgoing girls and friendly staff members at camp. Returning campers take a lot of pride in their knowledge of Camp Chinqueka and can’t wait to share “What’s going to happen next!” with newcomers. Our counselors are trained in methods of engaging new campers and helping nervous campers become active members of the team.

Sure. We’ll do our best to accommodate your request. Please call prior to enrolling to ensure we have space. The campers must be within one year of each other in age and requests must be mutual. No more than 2 campers can be requested. Unfortunately, due to limited number of beds in each cabin, sometimes we are not always able to accommodate every request but we will try our best!

All 4, 6, and 8 week campers are permitted visitors every two weeks on “Visiting Days”. We welcome families to stay at camp and take advantage of the activities during visiting days. 2 week campers are not permitted to have visitors during the session.

Campers are supervised daily for proper grooming and cleanliness by their cabin counselors. Campers are required to take frequent showers and brush their teeth, and a little extra care is given to our younger campers who might need help. Weekly hygiene & wellness checks are made by the health center staff to confirm good health.

Campers don’t need to bring any special equipment or clothing to camp! Our girls love playing and getting messy, so pack clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty.

Laundry service is done as part of your camper’s tuition. Each camper’s laundry is individually bagged & sent out weekly to a local facility that specializes in camp laundry to be washed and comes back clean and folded!

We provide daily towels here at camp, and it is all part of your daughter’s tuition.

Even returning girls get a little homesick sometimes! It’s natural to miss Mom or Dad when you spend some time away from home. All staff are trained to identify the tell tale signs of homesickness and how to teach or reinforce the skills to overcome it, and our administration are ready to jump in and lead a helping hand. We keep parents informed on how to best handle their campers if they are missing home, and encourage parents to call the office to check in on how their daughter is doing.

Any electronic devices that are able to connect to the internet are NOT permitted at camp. This includes cellphones, tablets, games consoles, cameras (film, digital & polaroid), kindles, and any device which may be invented before you finish reading this sentence. We do permit the use of digital MP3 players to be used during Rest Hour, as long as they do not have a screen or wifi connection.

There are more than enough activities at camp to keep campers busy. We prefer that campers interact with one another and develop their social skills. Let them unplug for 4-6 weeks during the summer and enjoy the outdoors!

We have a strict “no electronics” policy at camp. This is one of the growth-producing, yet challenging, aspects of camp. We have found that cell phones and other electronics interfere with a camper’s acclimatization to camp life and impedes the development of independence, which is a camp goal.

Parents are permitted to send substantive e-mail letters through their online account in addition to traditional letters. These will be distributed once a day. An appropriate frequency for either form of correspondence is about twice a week.

Phone calls home are scheduled by cabin and your child will call you during their allocated Chatterbox session. Calls are limited to 5 minutes to prevent homesickness and ensure each camper gets the chance to call home. Calls will happen once per session, if you camper misses their scheduled call, another opportunity will be arranged later on in the week.

Call us at (860) 567-9678! Or email us at [email protected]! We are available to answer any and all questions you may have about Chinqueka.

In any non-urban area such as a summer camp, there is an elevated risk of insect bites, including mosquito and tick bites. An independent organization, Ivy Oaks Analytics, visits our camps monthly to help treat for ticks, poison ivy, mosquitos, and gnats on our property.