For Campers Entering Grades 1st-8th

Utilizing our 23 acre campus and surrounding areas of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Keystone Science School offers a traditional camp experience with a mix of Science, Adventure, FUN! 1 or 2 week long sessions are offered each week from June until August. Campers will have the opportunity to sleep in our dorms or one of our canvas tents. Each session follows the same core activities and adventures with a different science theme hidden in each week.

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Adventures is the next step in progression at KSS. Our field-based Adentures are focused on the development of outdoor skills and leadership while exploring Colorado’s stunning parks, monuments, and most scenic natural environments by foot, on rope, or watercraft, for grades 5th-12th.

Science Activities

Each week incorporates unique science activities that make up a small part of the overall camp experience. The main focus of all Discovery Camp sessions are traditional camp and adventure activities. Campers will have the best summer ever no matter which sessions they choose!

CAP - Counselor Assistant Program

For grades 9-12, the Counselor Assistant is the leader of Discovery Camp and a final step in the camp progression.

Snake River Village (SRV) - Rustic Canvas Tents
(Grades 4-6 Only)

If falling asleep to the calming sounds of the Snake River sounds like summer camp to you, then look no further than Snake River Village. Campers sleep in canvas wall tents, each with 6 beds, adjacent to the beautiful Snake River. Our tents are on raised wooden platforms and each camper gets a cot with mattress and room to store their belongings. The tents are a short walk from the bathrooms, showers, and dining hall. They even have their very own campfire pit!

Log-Style Dormitories
(Grades 2-8)

Discovery campers have the option of staying in our log cabin-style dormitories, featuring bunk beds, restrooms with showers, and community space. There are two different dormitories both of which are centrally located on our campus. There are four campers per room, and counselors stay in a room off of the community space. View a virtual 3-D tour of our dorms here.

Day 1: Welcome to Camp!

We'll get settled in our dorms/tents, and pack for the next day's Wilderness trip. We finish the day with our Campfire tradition, where campers can sing, laugh and make new friends. Read More

Day 2: Wilderness Backpacking & Camping off-campus

Begin with an optional Sunrise Celebration on Lake Dillon. Campers then depart campus for a Wilderness Overnight Trip, where they will backpack into nature and learn basic backpacking skills, and how to set up camp.

Day 3: Mega Camper Choice

Campers spend the day on campus or around Summit County, where they can choose from activities like Disc Golf, games at Rainbow Park, an on-campus Earth Trek, fishing, Archery and tye-dye. We end each day with a Candle Chat.
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Day 4: Challenge Hike

We leave KSS before sunrise for a Challenge Hike - where campers push themselves outside of their comfort zones on a difficult hike in a beautiful location, sometimes as far as summiting a mountain at 14,000 feet!
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Day 5: Adventure Day

Depending on the week they sign up for, choices can include Rafting, Horseback Riding or Rock Climbing. We end the day with a fun and laughter filled Talent Show, followed by our closing camper ceremony and the week’s Camper Awards.

Day 6: Camp Celebration, Goodbye!

On the last day of camp - we’ll pack up and have a celebration with arriving families, where we'll will sing camp songs, meet the counselors and watch a video celebrating the memories from the week.

For Students Entering Grades 9th-12th

The Counselor Assistant is the leader of Discovery Camp and a final step in the camp progression. In addition to all the magic and fun of camp, CAPs also work on their leadership skills, develop friendships and create healthy relationships, gain experience in outdoor skills, science, and teaching, and increase their self-confidence and self-awareness.

"My kids LIVE for adventure and love the options and the environment at keystone! Kids need so much time outside and KSS nails it!"

"I love the thoughtfulness with which kids are welcome into camp and the energy of the staff."

"KSS camp instills confidence, gives them an opportunity to be themselves and to explore."

"Camp has given my son an opportunity to learn more about nature, teamwork and leadership in the past few years."