Mother-Daughter Events | Rocky River Ranch

MOTHER DAUGHTER RETREATS

These are special getaways for you and your camp-age daughter to spend time together, away from distractions, in the great outdoors. We’ve designed the retreats to include loads of fun activities, spend time together outdoors, and to give your daughter a taste of summer camp!

2026 Dates:
April 17-19 | April 24-26 | Sept 18-20 | Sept 25-27

TENTATIVE SAMPLE SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

FRIDAY
6pm – Check-in begins
7:15pm – Group activity begins

SATURDAY
8am – Breakfast
9am – 1st Class
10am – 2nd Class
11am – 3rd Class
12:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Free Time (Canteen Store shopping, games in The Forty Niner, projects in the Craft Room, kayaking in the river, swimming in the pool, practice for the Talent Show)
6 pm - Dinner in The Grubstake
6:45pm - Talent Show
8pm - S'mores and songs at River Campfire

SUNDAY
8am – Breakfast, pack up and goodbyes

LODGING
Rocky River Ranch is a rustic summer camp with dormitory-style bunkhouses with bunk beds. Cabins are heated and air-conditioned, with their own shower and toilet facilities. Plan to bring your own bedding (sheets, blankets and pillows), as well as your own toiletries and towels (for swimming/showers).

COST

$350 Mother-daughter pair (one adult, one child)
$125 Additional Attendee

$100 deposit due at registration and balance due one month prior to event.

All Mother-Daughter Events are designed for camp aged daughters in kinder-eighth grade. Your cost includes fun activities, bonding experiences with your daughter, yummy food, songs galore, time around a campfire and of course- SMORES!

Please choose and register for one weekend to attend in the calendar year. We will not allow the same family to attend multiple weekends in the same calendar year, as we want to accommodate as many families as we can.

Refund policy: cancellations made one month before event begins will receive refund of fees paid minus the $100 non-refundable deposit.

Enjoy quality time in the great outdoors!

**Online registration for Mother Daughter Weekends opens on November 1st at 9:00 am!

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.

We still can't believe it has been 50 years since my mother, Mama Knolk, started RRR. We are so proud that it is still the same as she built it and still has the same spirit upon which it was founded. Our children and grandchildren have had the wonderful opportunity to attend camp and we all can still sing some of the songs when we get together. May the spirit of Mama Knolk stay with all that have attended RRR.

‒ Polly Knolk Denham

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

Wow! I just spent ten amazing weeks at Rocky River. It was a great learning experience. My first job also! I had a wonderful time working with the counselors and the kids. I already miss it! I miss singing camp songs too!

‒ Brenda Ly Years at camp: 2004

RRR gives young women the chance to excel in areas where they may not have ever had a chance to before … and an opportunity to gain self esteem and confidence. These are such amazing and important gifts that will stay with campers their entire lives. This is why RRR will forever be a "home" to its campers. A place where they feel accepted, and loved and special.

‒ Margaret "Meg" Beecher Lowery Years at camp: '89-2000, 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

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

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