PACKING LIST AND THEME DAYS

This is a suggested checklist for a one-week camper.


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We suggest packing in a trunk, small stacking plastic drawers, a suitcase, or duffel bag. Campers place their luggage under or at the foot of their bunk.

2025 Packing List

REQUIRED

OPTIONAL/HIGHLY SUGGESTED

 

Theme Days for 2025

 These are optional, fun dress up days throughout the 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!

Sessions 1,4 & 6

Maritime Monday: Ahoy, Matey! Dress as a pirate, sea creature (such as a whale or dolphin), a ship captain or anything else sea-related! If not, you might have to walk the plank!

Totally 2000's Tuesday: Travel back to the early 2000's and show us your best throwback outfit! Neon/bright colors, hair barrettes, cargo shorts, denim, Backstreet Boys or NSYNC, the more the better!

Team Spirit Thursday: Deck out in your red & white OR your black & gold. Show all your Cowpoke or Wrangler pride from head to toe!! Note that new campers will get their team on the first night of camp so you can order from the camp store and mark as UNKNOWN. Staff will fill the order with the correct team gear.

Sessions 2 & 5

​​Maritime Monday: Ahoy, Matey! Dress as a pirate, sea creature (such as a whale or dolphin), a ship captain or anything else sea-related! If not, you might have to walk the plank!

Way Back Wednesday: We’re going wayyy back to when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth! Dress as a dinosaur, a Caveman, or anything else Prehistoric!

Favorite team Friday: Deck out in your red & white OR your black & gold. Show all your Cowpoke or Wrangler pride from head to toe!!

Time of the year Tuesday: Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter? Which time of the year is your favorite? You can be a field of flowers, a sun, a tree changing colors, a snowman, and so much more. The sky is the limit!

Triple R Thursday - How much Rocky River swag can you wear all at once? Hats, hair ties, socks, shorts, shirts, and any other camp merch you have. Dress head to toe in all your camp faves!

Session 3

Maritime Monday: Ahoy, Matey! Dress as a pirate, sea creature (such as a whale or dolphin), a ship captain or anything else sea-related! If not, you might have to walk the plank!

Totally 2000's Tuesday: Travel back to the early 2000's and show us your best throwback outfit! Neon/bright colors, hair barrettes, cargo shorts, denim, Backstreet Boys or NSYNC, the more the better!

Favorite Team Friday: Deck out in your red & white OR your black & gold. Show all your Cowpoke or Wrangler pride from head to toe!!

The place I love Monday - Is your favorite on earth France? Maybe it's Texas? Or a National Park? Could it be RRR? Show off the place you love by dressing like a landmark or location, wearing their colors, or any other way you can think of to show your love toward your favorite place!

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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Rocky River Ranch experience

 

Mama Knolk — what a wonderful and gentle lady. She always wanted the best for us and for us to be our best.

‒  Jeanette Brian Lawrence Years at camp: 1960s

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 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

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

The truth is I would not have become the person I am today without RRR! Making decisions for classes at 7 years old (with the help of a big sister and Rue as my counselor), remembering to wear your bathing suit under your jeans so you could go from the barn to the pool without the dreaded trip back to your cabin, remembering not to sign up for your pool class right before horseback … I could go on and on. The mistakes we made there were safe and there was a support system to catch you if you fell. Later I enjoyed working with the campers younger than me. First in WE as a big sister myself and later as a CIT Mom. In 14 years I grew and strengthened my commitment to myself. I felt loved unconditionally and I formed everlasting friendships. Some of them recently re-kindled after a 15-20 year gap as if no time had passed at all. In the last year I received a letter from a former CIT that spoke of my influence on her life. How it made her a better mother and a better woman. I have saved that letter for my children to read one day. I will always feel like Skeet and Sandy helped raise me and they always saw the person I could be! I can never thank them enough for that.

‒  Sunni Becker Markowitz Years at camp: 1974-1988

I am grateful for the girls that Skeet, Sandy and Rue had as our counselors because of the character and leadership they taught me. I love them all. Many are my friends still and I cannot wait to see them again year after year. We are all grown, some mothers now, some in interesting careers, but all of us sharing one special thing in common -- outside of careers, husbands, family and schooling -- the RRR Spirit that endures in our everyday life.

‒  Brandi Mascione Roy Years at camp: 1978-1985