CAMP CLASSES

All campers at Rocky River Ranch have four class periods each day. The camper chooses the classes she wants to concentrate on for each week and attends the same class at the same time each day (see format below). Campers attending a two-week session are encouraged to choose different classes the second week as the content and activities will be the same both weeks.

Programs are fitted to the child, not the child to the program. All classes are closely supervised by Counselors and Instructors. Our program is designed to "grow independent girls." To that end, campers plan their own creative endeavors and spend their days participating in classes they choose.

Our mission is to develop great qualities in young ladies; qualities such as confidence, critical thinking, teamwork and collaboration, respect, responsibility and communication. These skills are going to be learned at camp regardless of which classes they select.

There are so many activities to choose from! For time slots and descriptions, DOWNLOAD our 2026 Camp Classes PDF here We suggest downloading and printing this form to review with your camper. Make a plan of her first and second choice classes for each hour so that you know what she wants to take when you complete the online registration. Waiting lists are time stamped and automated so be sure to get on a waiting list for a class if it's full when you register. Lots of changes happen and we try our best to get campers the classes they prefer.

The four activity periods each day are 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 and 5:00.

Morning classes are individualized and 5:00 class will be done with their cabin groups. Girls will make their own choices at 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00, and cabins will rotate through specialized activities (see below for the class descriptions) in the 5:00 hour. In Sessions 2 and 5 only, girls will choose individual classes for the second week at 5:00.

Gaga Nine Square
9G+

Learn, play, and hone your skills in active and fast-paced games: Ga-Ga, 9-Square, sprout ball and more! All ages and abilities welcome.

Anything Goes
ABC- Actions to Beautify Camp

Want to work with others to make camp look better? Choose this class if you want to leave your mark on camp! Use community building and creativity skills to complete projects that will help the future of RRR in this service oriented class.

Advanced FB
Advanced Friendship Bracelets - Sessions 2 & 5 only

Can’t get enough of making friendship bracelets? In advanced friendship bracelets you will learn how to read advanced patterns and have time to make lots of bracelets for your friends!

Water Aerobics
Anything Goes - Sessions 2 & 5 only

Together the class chooses from a list of activities. Vote on fun things to do such as crafts, games, snack making, etc. Anything goes!

Archery
Archery

 Bows and arrows aimed at the targets down range! In this class girls will learn archery basics and improve upon existing skills. They will play fun games each day and get lots of practice for the tournament at the end of the week.

Baking
Baking

Girls will learn baking techniques and tips as they get their hands messy baking lots of tasty treats. New recipes each year!

Gaga Nine Square
Beginner Friendship Bracelets - Sessions 1, 3, 4 & 6 only

Want to learn how to make friendship bracelets? In beginner friendship bracelets you will learn how to make simple patterns and have time to make lots of bracelets for your friends!

Beginner HB
Beginner Horseback Riding

New riders and those who are not yet independent please join us in learning the basics of western riding and horsemanship. Lessons will be split between horseback lessons and ground lessons to improve riders’ relationships and confidence working with horses. We teach skills based on AAHS lessons giving our riders the proper foundation to move forward in any future horseback activities, whether that is future riding lessons or a safer vacation trail ride. We look forward to starting your cowgirl on a path to be a lifelong horse girl!

Additional fee of $35 applies.

Brick Masters
Brick Masters - Sessions 1, 3, 4 & 6 only

Are you a Lego enthusiast? This class is for you! Spend the week creating Lego masterpieces from your imagination or building sets.

Challengers
Challengers - Sessions 1, 3, 4 & 6 only

Love a challenge? This class rotates through Climbing Wall, Rappelling, the Screamer and Crate Stacking - each day a new challenge! Must be going into 5th grade or older. .

Creature Creation
Creature Creation

In this class, campers will unleash their imagination by creating a 3D sculpture of an animal (real or imaginary) using a variety of materials and techniques. Use one of our templates or bring your unique creative vision to life!

Climbing Wall
Climbing Wall & Rappelling - Sessions 2 & 5 only

Challenge yourself climbing up and rappelling down in this duo class. Alternate between the climbing wall and the natural rappelling cliff to hone your skills on belay! Try different routes on the wall and learn scaling and bounding on the cliff for an extra challenge. Girls must be rising 5th grade or older.

Crafts
Crafts

This class is for makers who want to unleash their creativity on several hands-on projects during the week. New crafts each year!

Dance
Dance

Learn steps for different types of dance (such as ballet, ballroom, jazz, hip hop, etc.) and practice for an end-of-session performance.

Diving Galore & More
Diving Galore & More!

Jump, dive and splash! Learn different dives, tricks, and games in this fun pool class. This class is for girls who want more time in the pool!

Drama Tech
Drama

Learn dramatic techniques as you rehearse for the end-of-session performance. The drama staff chooses a script and the girls try out for different roles at the beginning of the week. Open to all skill levels with lots of opportunity to learn. (This class meets both weeks of 2-week sessions.)

Drawing 101
Drawing 101

Learn the elements & principles of art through daily drawing lessons. Take home a sketchbook at the end of the session with your take on shade, texture, color, value, perspective, and more. Let go of the stress of perfecting a project and instead delve into learning a new skill among new friends! See you this summer future artists!

Farm Girls
Farm Animal Fun

Learn about and fall in love with our camp farm animals! Spend an hour of your morning with a different focus each day on horses, goats, rabbits, chickens, ducks, and more. Our animals look forward to all of your care this summer at the barn!

Farm Girls
Full STEAM Ahead! - Sessions 2 & 5 only

Participate in fun and informative experiments and games that allows us to enrich our minds! Discover and explore using the building blocks of science, technology, engineering, art, and more!

Hand Sewing
Hand Sewing

Learn how to hand sew various stitches through making simple projects, such as eye masks, bookmarks, and small pouches.

Barn Girls
Jewelry Making

Join this creative class to make all kinds of jewelry! You will have lots of fun as you create keepsakes for yourself and friends.

Junk Journals
Junk Journals - Sessions 1, 3, 4 & 6 only

Design, decorate, and draw in a fun new journal. Use art and stationary materials to create a one of a kind booklet. Whether you want to make a journal for your thoughts, a bullet planner, or a sketch book, let your creativity shine!

Water Aerobics
Knitting & Crocheting

Learn the basics of knitting and crocheting as well as expand skills you already have. Complete a project at your own pace while you visit with friends and learn skills that will last a lifetime!

Miniatures
Miniatures

Learn how to create teeny-tiny objects for a tiny room that you’ll love to take home and display. New theme each year!

Miniatures
Mixed Media Art

In this class you will be using a range of art mediums and non-traditional materials to create a variety of art projects. This class is for the creative minds who like to think outside the box.

Barn Girls
Mounted Horseback Activites

This class is for riders of all ages and levels who can pass a minimum skills test to prove they can control a horse safely and independently at a walk. Each day will be a series of games played on horseback involving both individual and team activities. The class will focus on the joy of riding with easy but fun games and time to make friends with other die hard horse girlies!

Additional fee of $35 applies.

Nature Crafts
Nature Crafts - Sessions 1, 3, 4 & 6 only

Do you love being outside in nature? Do you have a crafty side in you? Take Nature Crafts! We will combine natural elements such as leaves, pebbles, and branches to make some fun art.

Miniatures
No Bake Recipes

This class will meet in the Grubstake and campers will have fun creating (and eating) simple recipes. We will use blenders, microwaves and other small appliances instead of ovens. Satisfaction guaranteed! New recipes each year.

Painting

Create your own masterpiece! Learn about painting techniques, composition and art history as you express yourself in this class. Study a new artist and style each year.

Photography
Photography - Sessions 2 & 5 only

Learn the basics of photography on digital cameras, such as composition, camera settings, lighting and so much more!

Pool Sports
Pool Sports

This class is for the sporty girl who loves the pool! Spend time splashing around the pool while playing sports like water polo, water basketball, water volleyball, water aerobics and more. Whether your team wins or not, you will have fun playing with your friends.

River Sports

We’ve combined all of the river favorites into one class! Enjoy the Blanco River as you try things like kayaking, paddle boarding, log rolling, fishing, and venturing up or down river.

Rocky River Roundup

Become a camp reporter, cartoonist, and/or writer. Work together to build a newspaper about your time at camp and report on the goings on of the RRR campers, staff and activities in your session. 

Screamer & Crate Stacking - Sessions 2 & 5 only

Put on a harness, get clipped in, and be pulled up to swing from up to 40 feet on our giant swing, the Screamer! The next day try different strategies to stack plastic crates and climb on them as high as you can. Teamwork makes these elements possible as campers pull each other up the Screamer and support the crate stacker as a team. Girls must be rising 5th grade or older.

Sport-a-Day
Sport-a-Day

Learn about and play a different sport each day. Basketball, volleyball, tennis, soccer, and sprinkler kickball - just to name a few.

Water Aerobics
Sprinkler Sports - Sessions 1, 3, 4 & 6 only

Stay cool by playing kickball, volleyball, Ga-Ga ball, and more in the sprinklers!

Stagecraft
Stagecraft - Sessions 2 & 5 only

The behind the scenes work that makes the Drama Show a success! Plan, organize and design the costumes, props and show board for the closing day performance. Girls must be rising 5th grade or older.

Stretch and Flex
Stretch and Flex

This class will use yoga and affirmation techniques to help campers reflect and grow. Learn basic yoga positions and postures, breathing techniques, and ways to improve balance. We will focus on bettering ourselves from the inside out!

Synchronized Swimming

You’ll learn sculling, breath control and water ballet moves. You will also learn and practice a routine to perform during the end of session performance. (This class meets both weeks of 2-week sessions.)

Tennis
Tennis

All levels welcome as you learn, practice, and perfect your tennis skills! Racket, balls and fun provided.

Ukelele 101
Ukulele 101

In this class girls will be taught Ukulele basics while having fun. All levels of musicians are welcome! Ukuleles will be provided by RRR for the girls to learn and practice while here.

BLOC
5:00 Cabin Activity
Building with Legos and Others as a Cabin "BLOC"

Campers will spend time with their cabin while building creations out of building materials. Who can build the highest tower, the strongest structure, or the most realistic creature? Campers will enjoy this time to relax and use their imagination.

Cabin Connection Craft
5:00 Cabin Activity
Cabin Connection Craft "CCC"

Cabins will discuss how each individual camper contributes to their cabin group and will make a craft to illustrate their uniqueness and connectedness.

Cabin Hang Time
5:00 Cabin Activity
Cabin Hang Time

One week campers will enjoy taking a deep breath on Wednesday afternoon and spend an extra hour in their cabin - dance parties, card games, nail polish and other age appropriate activities will make for guaranteed fun!

Cabin Pool Party
5:00 Cabin Activity
Cabin Pool Party

An extra hour of free swim just for your cabin. Cabins will love having the pool, and a special treat, all to themselves!

Water Aerobics
5:00 Cabin Activity
Group Games

Cabin bonding at it’s best! Counselors will lead the cabin in age specific and fun filled games. Guaranteed laughs and silliness while getting to know each other better. This class will be in the 49er.

Brainiacs
5:00 Cabin Activity
Grubby Gals

Learn and practice camp songs with their motions, table chants such as ‘sevens’, and enjoy a snack!

Water Aerobics
5:00 Cabin Activity
Name Tag Painting and Friendship Bracelet Making

Everyone loves these two camp classics! Get creative and learn some new skills as you create unique accessories.

Adv FB
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Advanced Friendship Bracelets

Can’t get enough of making friendship bracelets? In advanced friendship bracelets you will learn how to read advanced patterns and have time to make lots of bracelets for your friends!

Water Aerobics
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Baking

Girls will learn baking techniques and tips as they get their hands messy baking lots of tasty treats. New recipes each year!

Fab Fads
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Fabulous Fads

In this class, you will have fun creating DIY dupes for fads - RRR style!

Fantasy Crafts
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Fantasy Crafts

Do you love all things fantasy? This class is for you! We will be making crafts inspired by princesses, fairies, dragons and anything else you can imagine.

Water Aerobics
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Jewelry Making

 Join this creative class to make all kinds of jewelry! You will have lots of fun as you create keepsakes for yourself and friends.

Junk Journals
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Junk Journals

Design, decorate, and draw in a fun new journal. Use art and stationary materials to create a one of a kind booklet. Whether you want to make a journal for your thoughts, a bullet planner, or a sketch book, let your creativity shine!

Needle Punch
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Needle Punch

Needle punch is an embroidery technique that creates a looped texture on fabric to create a cute design.

Water Aerobics
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
River Fun

If you aren’t ready to leave the river after free swim - this is the class for you! Enjoy some structured games, rock skipping and minnow catching as well as some unstructured free play. Sign up for this class if you can’t get enough of the beautiful Blanco River!

Water Aerobics
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Skits, Accents, & Games Oh My!

In this theater skills class, girls will enjoy trying out improv acting and games while having fun on stage learning accents and skits.

Water Aerobics
Session 2 and 5 only
2nd week 5:00 Class Choice
Sprinkler Sports

Stay cool by playing kickball, volleyball, Ga-Ga ball, and more in the sprinklers!

Rocky River Ranch | Summer Camp Programs

Summer Camp Programs

The perfect summer is waiting for your daughter aged 5 to 14 at Rocky River— filled to the brim with new friendships, challenging activities and, most importantly, lots of fun! Check out our day camp and resident camp options.

Rocky River Ranch | Weekend Programs

Weekend Programs

In the hot summer months, we’re an all-girls camp, but the rest of the year, we offer year ‘round fun at our Great Escapes for women and Mother-Daughter weekends!

Rocky River Ranch | Event Rentals

Event Rentals

Rocky River Ranch is the perfect solution for your special event! We host family reunions, church retreats, teacher work days, company picnics, Girl Scout groups, and more with lodging for up to 135 guests.

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Picture a Spot … My years at Rocky River mean more to me than can be written down in a little note. There's probably not a day that goes by that I don't think about an experience, a laugh, a friendship, a struggle, a success, etc. that I experienced at camp. I love that I can go back and find the same "safe haven" that I experienced as a 7-year-old girl in Circle B through several years as a Counselor! Driving across that cattle guard at the front gate, my heart beat calms to a familiar and comforting beat again, like nothing else I've experienced.

‒  Erin Davis Terjesen Years at camp: 1985-1998

Another favorite camp memory that lives on is the camp songs. I have sung them to my kids when they were babies … and still sing to them to wake them up in the morning ("Good morning to You!"). Last summer my daughter went to camp for the first time (at age 6). She had a great time and is looking forward to going again this summer. She sings camp songs almost daily (I'm ready for her to learn a few new ones other than "Boom Boom, Ain't it Great to be Crazy?" and "I Wish I Were a Little Bar of Soap")!

‒  Patti Scott Gillman Years at camp: 1972-1985

I would definitely not be the person I am today without the experience of camp. I remember being 7 years old and so excited about my first camp experience. I don't think I slept the entire night before leaving. When I arrived at camp it was the most wonderful place I had ever seen. Rue was my first counselor and she took the time to show me around and introduced me to the other girls. I was scared at first, but it did not last long. By the end of the first night camp already felt like a second home. By the end of my first two weeks I did not want to leave. Rocky River was a part of my life forever. In the end what I took away from camp was friendship, love, respect and confidence.

‒  Debbie Merian Polasek Years at camp: 1977-1987

Rocky River was a HUGE part of my childhood and I cherish all of the wonderful memories I have. Sandy, Skeet, Jim, Rue, Arthur — y'all were the best extended family a kid could ever ask for. My favorite cabin, Bar K, holds fond memories as well. The stories I have would take days to repeat and the friendships I made were oh so REAL!

‒  Kathy Hotz Thompson Years at camp: 1975-1987

Oh how I wish I could still be a young girl and go to RRR every summer! I truly miss those wonderful weeks of absolute fun and excitement. This camp holds a very special place in my heart and will always throughout my life. I cannot wait until the day that my newborn little girl will be able to drive through the gate and live the summer days that not only her mother lived, but her grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother enjoyed. I cannot wait until the day that I can tell her all about her special great-great-grandmother (we called her GG, but most knew her as Mama Knolk) that opened beautiful Rocky River Ranch and created a place for many girls to create memories from. I am truly happy to see Mama Knolk's spirit still living on. May it continue to live on the dream that she always wanted.

‒  Allison Turley Torres Years at camp: 1986-1994

I love Rocky River Ranch. It was a place I could go and feel accepted for the person I was — not the person I was expected to be. When we passed under that arch, the playing field was leveled and I was free to be myself, or even to reinvent myself! If I could ride, if I could swim, if I could do crafts or even if my only talent was spitting watermelon seeds, I was accepted!

‒  Britany Beever Just Years at camp: 1979-1984, 1987-1988