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

 

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 loved performing on stage and modeling in the fashion show. I learned how to shoot a bow and arrow, and how to do synchronized swimming. I wrote a 'Snoopy' column for the newspaper. In fact, a lot of the things I loved then are things I still love today.

‒  Shannon McCann Years at camp: 1966-1975

I loved RRR from the second I saw it. The smell of the cedar trees sure was heaven compared to the pollution of Dallas. I only got to stay for two weeks that first summer, which was way too short a time. I rode the horses, shot up targets, and made stuff in the crafts hut. I know I made it down to the river a few times. It was the year that I got my red tie in the horseback department and I was sooooo proud! I got to stand in front of the campfire while the campers all went berserk over my accomplishment. I feel so lucky to have the memories that I do and those are of RRR. I don't remember much about my childhood, but I remember everything about RRR and how much I loved going there every summer. It was heaven on earth.

‒  Libby Walker Dunagan Years at camp: 1965-1967, 1969-1974

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

I love Rocky River Ranch. It was a place I could go and feel accepted for the person I was — not the person I was expected to be. When we passed under that arch, the playing field was leveled and I was free to be myself, or even to reinvent myself! If I could ride, if I could swim, if I could do crafts or even if my only talent was spitting watermelon seeds, I was accepted!

‒  Britany Beever Just Years at camp: 1979-1984, 1987-1988

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