Follow the Gleam

When Sarah Francisco was a young Nature Camper in the mid ’80s, she witnessed something that had a profound impact on the way she saw…

In mid-August 1992, Joanne and I were driving back to Arlington, Virginia, with our 11-year old daughter, Charlotte, from our second trip to Nature Camp.…

As we all know, Nature Camp has an important impact on the attitudes and outlooks of all of us that pass through this place. In…

“We were big on characters,” laughed Mary Jane Gannaway Layne as she recounted her experiences at Nature Camp during an oral history interview in 2013.…

Things were different at Nature Camp in Nancy Lowry’s day. When she arrived as a 10-year-old fourth-session camper in 1959, counselors didn’t teach classes—that was…

The first time Erin McKeown went to sleepaway summer camp, she hated it so much she tried to mount an escape. The Fredericksburg native was…

“Oh, I didn’t want to go to Nature Camp at all,” laughs Steve Vargo, reminiscing about how he first arrived. “Basically, I was a middle…

If you have shown off your favorite Nature Camp t-shirt design, been warmed up by a delicious meal at a Service Weekend, looked for friends…