Upcoming Events
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Eco Adventure Challenge
June 25, 2023, 2 p.m. - June 30, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 4th - 6th (represents grade completed)
Can you start a fire, solve a riddle, or build a shelter? Take part in outdoor challenges as you experience nature’s wonders during this exciting week of camp. Be adventurous and learn about survival, yourself, and your camp friends as you participate in challenges, play games, use your wits to solve puzzles and find hidden clues. Campers will learn about teamwork and increase their self-confidence on our low & high rope challenge courses. T...
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Discovering Art & Nature
July 9, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 14, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 4th - 6th (represents grade completed)
This unique new camp is a blend between two staples of Bethel Horizons - the Adamah Clay Studios and the Horizons Nature Center. Throughout the week, campers will work both individually and collaboratively to make pieces of art from nature, which will involve utilizing various elements of nature such as leaves, sticks, stones, bones and water, in a creative way to make new art objects. Spend your mornings discovering the variety of shapes, sizes...
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Pack & Paddle
July 9, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 14, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 7th - 9th (represents grade completed)
Campers will do an overnight hike to the valley of Bethel Horizons and canoe the scenic Wisconsin River. There will be time to enjoy the sights, climb on natural rock faces, and sit around a fire with friends and awesome counselors. Enjoy wildlife, hearty meals, chats about the four harmonies of God, Self, Others and Nature, outdoor challenges, and learning about the world around you. Base camp is the Tent & Trailer Campground.
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Leaders in Training (LIT - 2 weeks)
July 9, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 14, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 10th - 11th (represents grade completed)
Would you like to be a future leader at Bethel Horizons? This camp offers two sessions for high school students to learn and practice the skills of a successful outdoor leader. During the first week, participants will learn core skills to being an outdoor leader, including leading campfires and first words, games and activities, working with children, outdoor living skills and canoe training. Time will also be spent building community through ...
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Horizons Explorers
July 9, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 14, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades 2nd & 3rd (represents grade completed)
Experience the natural splendor of all Bethel Horizons has to offer. Each group of 10 other campers and two Horizons counselors will learn about living and working together in community. During this week of outdoor activities, campers will have the opportunity to cook over a campfire, sleep under the stars, create something with the artist, explore the outdoors with the naturalist, experiment with playing a guitar, visit our Greenhouse, swim ...
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Intermediate Mountain Bike Camp
July 16, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 21, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 7th - 11th (represents grade completed)
This adventureous week on wheels is putting a new spin on what it means to be an intermediate level mountain bike rider. We will expand on skills and trail etiquette, while treavesring some of the more advanced trails at Bethel Horizons and surrounding locations in southwest Wisconsin. Campers are required to have some level of mountain bike experience including skills in body and pedal position, shifting, braking, climbing and descending. B...
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Aquapalooza
July 16, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 21, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 4th - 6th (represents grade completed)
Explore the watery world of nature by wading in knee deep. Visit a waterfall, ride the Kickapoo river on an inner tube, canoe an area lake, or splash around in Question Mark Pond and get up close and personal with fish, frogs, crawdads, giant water bugs, and clams. This camp provides kids the chance to learn about the Hydrologic cycle, help set up an Aquarium in the Nature Center, seine for monsters of the deep, or try on some swimming goggles a...
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Leaders in Training (LIT - 2 weeks)
July 16, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 21, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades: 10th - 11th (represents grade completed)
Would you like to be a future leader at Bethel Horizons? This camp offers two sessions for high school students to learn and practice the skills of a successful outdoor leader. During the first week, participants will learn core skills to being an outdoor leader, including leading campfires and first words, games and activities, working with children, outdoor living skills and canoe training. Time will also be spent building community through ...
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Horizons Explorers
July 16, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 21, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades 2nd & 3rd (represents grade completed)
Experience the natural splendor of all Bethel Horizons has to offer. Each group of 10 other campers and two Horizons counselors will learn about living and working together in community. During this week of outdoor activities, campers will have the opportunity to cook over a campfire, sleep under the stars, create something with the artist, explore the outdoors with the naturalist, experiment with playing a guitar, visit our Greenhouse, swim ...
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Waterworld
July 23, 2023, 2 p.m. - July 28, 2023, 1 p.m.
Grades 7th - 9th (represents grade completed)
For those campers ready to rough it and explore the world of water with excitement, we offer this thrill ride of a week! Experience a night camping on the Wisconsin River. Tube down the Kickapoo River. Try your hand at canoeing across a local lake. Take a night swim at the Twin Valley beach in Governor Dodge State Park with inflatables and glow sticks. Torpedo down a 100 foot long slip and slide, and take on your counselors with a water balloon l...