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!

2025 Dates:
April 4-6 | April 11-13 | Sept 19-21 | Sept 26-28

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

$325 Mother-daughter pair (one adult, one child)
$100 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.

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

I had a wonderful experience of being a counselor at RRR 1960-61 and 1966-67. Those first 2 years I knew and loved both Mama Knolk and Jane. Later, I was there with Skeet and Sandy. I have great memories of all those special people and all the fun times at camp. I'm so glad the camp is still going strong!

‒ Mary Jane McDuffie Dillard Years at camp: 1960-61, 1966-67

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

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

I loved my counselors, I loved the river, and even learned how to sail on Canyon Lake. I still sing all the old camp songs that we sang every day after lunch to my little girl, who's five, every night before bed. I always end with, 'I love the mountains, I love the rolling hills ...' and then Taps.

‒ Shannon McCann Years at camp: 1966-1975

I will forever remember Rocky River Ranch as the greatest place on earth! To this day I still remember the nine summers that I spent at Rocky River Ranch. I hope to have my children experience camp as I did so many years ago.

‒ Tasha Ancira Roberts Years at camp: 1977-1985

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