Day Camp Packing List | Rocky River Ranch

DAY CAMP PACKING LIST & THEME DAYS

Please label all items brought to RRR

2026 Packing List

REQUIRED

Water bottle (with camper’s name)

Secure footwear (please send your daughter in shoes with a back)

River shoes (not flip flops or crocs) that stay securely on feet with a backstrap or backpanel, e.g. old athletic shoes, “water shoes” with backstrap, etc.

Sunscreen

Towel

Swimsuit

Packed lunch

Tote bag or backpack that your camper can easily carry

RECOMMENDED

Bug spray

Hair ties and hair brush

Extra change of clothes/underwear

Swim goggles and swim shirt

Hat/cap

Theme Day outfit!

WHAT NOT TO BRING

Cell phones

Electronic devices

Cash

Valuables

Clothes that cannot be stained/ ruined

Tobacco products, alcohol, weapons of any kind.

Cell phones are NOT ALLOWED.

If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact the Day Camp Director prior to arrival or on check in day.

Theme Days for 2026

These are optional, fun dress up days the Wednesday of each session. We encourage everyone to be creative and silly with your outfits, but please don't feel the need to buy lots of items. Hopefully you already have some fun things around the house she can use. We want these days to be fun and not stressful!

Day Camp Sessions 1 & 2

Stars, Stripes and Dots OH MY!: Today we go ALL OUT with patterns! Polka dots, stripes, chevrons, plaid, or stars. Or maybe some of each!? Think patterns from head to toe and you can’t go wrong!

Day Camp Sessions 3 & 4

Wild Animal Wednesday: Dress up in the wildest animal you can imagine! Maybe a tiger, maybe a rhino? Maybe a monkey or even a zebra? From your hair to your toes, today you can be your own version of a wild animal!

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.

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!

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.

My years at Rocky River were some of the most wonderful times in my life. My sister (Laura) and I still spend hours talking about our fun times there. We still remember our days of swimming in the river, riding horses and water skiing. I can't wait until my little girl can experience all the joy and fun I had as a child for herself.

‒ Debbie Merian Polasek Years at camp: 1976-1987

I would not be the person I have become today if it were not for Skeet and Sandy. One of the biggest lessons I ever learned in life was from Sandy — I fell off a horse and Sandy made me get right back on. I had no idea what impact that lesson would mean to my life, but I have to say it has become one of the most valuable.

‒ Beth Boykin Huddle Years at camp: 1976-1980

I can't believe this will be my second summer away from Rocky River. I'm so campsick. I find myself singing RRR songs all the time, and i wish I could be there now! Camp has meant so much to me. Thanks for such a wonderful experience.

‒ Sara Jane Mitcham Years at camp: 1998-2003

This was my very first camp I ever went to and let me tell you it was the best! I only wish I had found out about it earlier so I could have spent more than just one year there. Y'all are an amazing camp and I hope you keep running for another 50 years.

‒ Claire Tilton Years at camp: 2002

Rocky River Ranch is like my second home. It is such a comfortable, fun place to be! I am planning to be here as long as possible, and want my future daughters and granddaughters to experience this camp. Rocky River has a special place in my heart, and is a big part of my life.

‒ Molly Morgan Years at camp: 2001-2005

I am still amazed and in awe of the subtle and mysterious way that simple activities and experiences weave together to leave an indelible impression of love ... confidence ... appreciation. They seem so simple there in the moment ... the singing of camp songs, Friendship Circle at the end of an evening program, the Cowpoke/Wrangler drawing, saddling a horse for the first time, scooting down the rapids ... but each song, with each tug on the halter rope, with each stroke of the canoe oar, with each ring of "Goodnight, campers!" a new brush of color is being painted on her childhood experience. From those "colors" spring forth amazing women as evidenced by the many remarkable people that now call themselves Rocky River alumni.

‒ Alyson Stringer Steakley Years at camp: 1982-1989, 1993

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