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Summer 2026 Registration Now Open for Returning GAC Families

Summer 2026 Registration Now Open for Returning GAC Families

Hello GAC Families! Registration for Summer 2026 is now open for returning GAC campers (and siblings). We cannot guarantee or hold space for your camper, and registrations will be processed on a first-come first-served basis. We recommend enrolling as close to August 1 as possible and before August 14 when we open enrollment for new camp families who were wait-listed for 2025. Enrollment for a new camp families begins on September 16. Some age groups in our two-week sessions fill very quickly, so be sure to check out the 2026 Dates & Rates, 2026 Availability, and contact us if you have any questions. Please enroll your camper through your My GAC Login or the Campanion app.  

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Episode 94: Making the World a Better Place with the Friedman Sisters

Episode 94: Making the World a Better Place with the Friedman Sisters

We love it when siblings enjoy Gold Arrow Camp together. Meet sisters Brooke "Waves" and Jojo "Mojo" Friedman. Waves, who is in her 10th year at GAC, is an Activity Counselor working primarily on the waterfront this summer.  Mojo, in her 9th year, was a Junior Counselor this summer. In addition to their shared love of camp, the Friedman sisters are also making a remarkably positive impact in the world through the non-profit they founded during the pandemic, She Styles. In this interview, hosted by Bravo, Waves and Mojo share their stories!

About She Styles

https://www.dailynews.com/2024/05/02/this-la-teen-nonprofit-holds-free-clothing-pop-ups-for-low-income-homeless-girls/

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Episode 93: Growing at GAC with Vision

Episode 93: Growing at GAC with Vision

Join Sunshine's conversation with Luke "Vision" Beshoff, the Rock Climbing and Ropes Course Program Head this summer. Vision started as a camper at GAC in 2012 and has now been on staff for four summers. Vision is incredibly positive and enthusiastic about camp and his experiences here. He describes in detail the activities that fall under the "Rocks and Ropes" category here at camp, and how each of them offers amazing opportunities for campers and staff to get outside their comfort zones and grow! Vision also shares how he's started appreciating different aspects of camp as he's gotten older.

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Episode 92: The Positive Impact of Camp with Echo

Episode 92: The Positive Impact of Camp with Echo

Cady "Echo" Latt shares her GAC story, which started back in 2008 when she attended a one week "Nuggets" program after she had finished Kindergarten. After 10 years as a camper, Echo joined as a Junior Counselor. She's now in her 5th year on staff. This year, Echo joins Sneaks in heading up our  Junior Counselor Program. In this longer conversation than our typical podcast chat, Echo and Sunshine talk about the benefits of camp, how camp has shaped her, and how much teens especially benefit from time at camp.

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Episode 85: Unplug to Connect Junior Counselor Program Five Reasons Every Teen Should Go To Summer Camp Dancing and the Brain (Harvard Medical School) [caption id="attachment_17789" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Echo with two of our 2025 Junior Counselors[/caption]

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