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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.

2026 Packing List

REQUIRED

OPTIONAL/HIGHLY SUGGESTED

 

Theme Days for 2026

 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

Cheese Day (Monday)!  This day is dedicated to all things CHEESE! Whether you dress as a slice of pizza, a block of Swiss, a grilled cheese sandwich or a mouse looking for cheese, all cheesy things are welcome on this day!

Music Legends Wednesday: Are you a country girl like Dolly Parton? Do you love glitter and boas like Elton John? Do you have tons of friendship bracelets like Taylor Swift? Be iconic as you go all out to dress up as your favorite music legend!

​The Team I Love Thursday: Deck out in your red & white OR your black & gold. Show your Cowpoke or Wrangler spirit from head to toe!!

Sessions 2 & 5

​​Cheese Day (Monday)!  This day is dedicated to all things CHEESE! Whether you dress as a slice of pizza, a block of Swiss, a grilled cheese sandwich or a mouse looking for cheese, all cheesy things are welcome on this day!

Too Sweet Thursday: We want to see all things sugary sweet as we transport into the world of Candyland! Think lollipops, cotton candy, licorice, and more!

So Much Spirit Saturday: Deck out in your red & white OR your black & gold. Show your Cowpoke or Wrangler spirit from your hair chalk to your face paint, from glitter to your team swag!!

Monochromatic Monday: Is your go to color pink? Or is it blue? Maybe it’s green? No right or wrong as you go all out and dress in one color from top to bottom -  think same color from hair tie to socks!

Triple R Swag 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

Cheese Day (Monday)!  This day is dedicated to all things CHEESE! Whether you dress as a slice of pizza, a block of Swiss, a grilled cheese sandwich or a mouse looking for cheese, all cheesy things are welcome on this day!

Music Legends Wednesday: Are you a country girl like Dolly Parton? Do you love glitter and boas like Elton John? Do you have tons of friendship bracelets like Taylor Swift? Be iconic as you go all out to dress up as your favorite music legend!

So Much Spirit Saturday: Deck out in your red & white OR your black & gold. Show your Cowpoke or Wrangler spirit from your hair chalk to your face paint, from glitter to your team swag!!

Monochromatic Monday: Is your go to color pink? Or is it blue? Maybe it’s green? No right or wrong as you go all out and dress in one color from top to bottom -  think same color from hair tie to socks!

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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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

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

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 1985-1998

RRR is not just two months of SCREAMING prepubescent girls singing songs in the Grubstake, Free Swim at the river or raids on other cabins, it becomes a way of life that helps guide you through the rest of your life. Not unlike the Marines who are brothers for life, those of us who were campers and counselors are sisters for life and will do anything to help each other, no questions asked!

‒  Lezli Smith Giancarlo Years at camp: 1981-1989

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’ve told my family that if I’m ever missing, can’t take the real world, think I need to drive away, they will find me at Rocky River Ranch. I’m now 41 years old, a mother of two and every time I turn down Flite Acres Road it is like going home and it makes me cry because I am so happy to be there. I had seven glorious summers at camp and I cherish every memory I carry with me.

‒  Jonica Crosby Cason Years at camp: 1977-1983
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