Tamahay is a unique experience, full of adventure and opportunity. Girls learn, grow, and have fun in a supportive environment without peer pressure or judgment. Our wide variety of activities ensures that every girl will find both new and familiar interests to explore. Campers develop self-confidence, self-sufficiency, and make lifelong friends while enjoying the beautiful north woods.

We offer two-week and four-week sessions.

Yes. On arrival day, campers choose their activities for the first week. At the end of the week, campers sign up for the second week’s activities. Girls can continue with their previous activities or choose new ones to try.

Most families drive up to camp, but there is Greyhound bus service available from the Twin Cities. We meet the girls at the bus station in Walker, MN. Some families are willing to carpool to and from camp. We can help connect you with someone in your area. If your daughter needs to fly to Minnesota, please contact us to make arrangements.

Some girls are more comfortable having a friendly face arrive with them, but many come alone the first time. In such a small community, campers make friends very quickly, and our counselors watch closely to make sure no one feels left out. Many girls tell us that they like having a place that is “just theirs,” away from school friends.

The cabins are set up as duplexes, with six to nine girls on each side, and two counselors in the middle. The cabins are simple, open and airy, without electricity. Bunkbeds, of course, are essential to the camp experience.

Girls are assigned by age to their cabin groups.

No. Flush toilets and hot showers are available at the lodge, not far from the cabins.

Each cabin group of six to nine girls has one counselor. Often counselors will have a junior counselor or counselor-in-training working alongside them. Our overall ratio of campers to staff is about 3 to 1.

No. Electronic devices are distracting and disruptive to the camp atmosphere, and will be held in the camp office until the last day of the camp session.

Write cheerful snail mail letters to your daughter. Help her to know how fortunate she is to be at camp. Letters from home are great morale builders and can help make summer camp a wonderful adventure.

Emails will not be delivered to campers.

Please do not send treats to campers, unless you wish to treat the whole camp, and then only by special arrangement. Food is not allowed in the cabins, and unauthorized treats will be held in the camp office until the last day of the camp session.

We do not have a specific camp visitation day. We are happy to discuss individual visitation based on the needs of each family and camper.

The first day or two of camp are an adjustment period for new campers, as they learn the camp routine and make new friends. Homesickness is not uncommon, but usually does not last long. Campers are so busy that they often do not even notice that their homesickness has faded within a day or two.

Laundry service will be offered to four-week campers only at the end of first session. The $12.00 laundry fee will be deducted from the campers’ Trading Post accounts.

A non-denominational inspirational service is held at camp each Sunday. (No transportation to local churches.)