Frequently Asked Questions

When you go to register for Green Acres Camp, you are actually submitting an APPLICATION. This means that your camp spot is not confirmed until your preferred payment method has been charged. 

Please allow our team 24-48 business hours to review your application. We will be sure to contact you if you we have any questions for your family. 

When you are filling out your application, you can make up to two friend/group requests. If more that two are listed, then our team will do our best to accommodate the first two names listed.

Please note that these friend/group requests need to be mutual! Both campers must list each other in order for the request to be considered.

If you need to update your friend requests at any point, please email us at camp@greenacres.org with the change. 

We love to show off our incredible campus and facilities! We cannot accommodate in-person tours but hope that you will take a virtual tour of our classrooms and outdoor spaces. Please reach out to our camp office at camp@greenacres.org with any questions. We'd love to get to know you!

For summer 20245 priority registration will include the following groups: current Green Acres School families, and summer 2024 families.

All other interested families can apply beginning on January 15th. 2025 at 12pm. We encourage everyone to sign up for our newsletter for all the latest information on registration.

If you fill out a camper application and we have no spots remaining, our team will reach out to you and ask if you would like to be placed on the waitlist. 

In order to secure your spot on the waitlist, you pay a small fee ($65). If any spot opens up, we will reach out to you via email and phone to see if you would like to accept. 

If no spot becomes available, you can either opt to have your waitlist fee refunded or leave it with Green Acres Camp to receive priority registration in 2026.

Once your application has been approved and processed, your $65 application fee and the $250 deposit are not refundable for any reason. 

Any cancellations/changes to fewer weeks/withdrawals after April 1st will be responsible for 50% of the entire tuition. 

Any cancellations/changes to fewer weeks/withdrawals after May 1st will be responsible for the entire tuition.

During the application process, you are able to specify if you would like to be charged in full for your camp tuition or if you would like to be charged in 4 equal installments. These installments will occur on the last business day of January, February, March, and April.

We do not prorate tuition for any reason. You are certainly free to miss any days at camp, and we will work with you as much as possible to choose activities and communicate to the staff that your camper will begin camp late or be absent for a designated period of time.

If you have any planned absences, please feel free to email our camp team!

We charge a 2.9% fees for any credit card payments.

Payment via e-check or debit card do NOT have processing fees.

Please make sure all your camper's items are labeled. Many of our camp families use labels like these for many of their items (including clothing, water bottles, and swim gear)

• Lunch (no refrigeration available; no gum, candy, or soda) & an extra snack (if necessary)

• Ice pack for lunch bag (We do not refrigerate lunches.)

• Backpack

• Wet bag (or other bag) for wet items like bathing suits

• Reusable water bottle

• Reusable Lunch Utensils

• Swimsuit, towel, goggles

• Sunscreen (spray sunscreen recommended for body, lotion recommended for face)

• Bug repellant (optional)

• Comfortable clothing

• Hat, raingear, etc. (weather dependent - no umbrellas please!) 

• Closed-toe shoes or sandals are best—no flip-flops

Safety is our first priority at Green Acres Camp. Our administrative team is constantly checking local weather updates and following any guidance provided by the local/state government. 

We are so very lucky to have many indoor spaces that can be used in the event of inclement weather. Our staff come prepared each summer with many “rainy-day” activities so that the fun never has to end. 

For the summer of 2025, we will be providing a limited selection of snacks as listed below. We encourage each family to contribute additional snacks that complement our offerings or better meet your child's dietary needs:

• Goldfish Crackers (Pepperidge Farm)
• Animal Crackers (Keebler) 
• Teddy Grahams (Nabisco)
• Pretzels (Snyder's)

If your camper is a bit more selective when it comes to snacks, we would recommend packing them an extra to enjoy each day! 

We are so lucky to have a pool on our campus and a part of our campers daily programming. The pool starts with a beach entrance/shallow teaching area that gradually gets deeper and deeper. 

All Junior Campers have a 25-minute swim block each day (weather permitting). During this block, campers will take part in group swim instruction that allows them to become more comfortable in the pool and practice basic water skills. 

Senior Campers have the option each day to come to the pool for a 45-minute free-swim during their Workshop time. 

If you are looking for individualized or small group lessons, we suggest that you sign up for our swim lessons that are offered before camp from 9:10-9:35 or after camp from 3-3:30 or 3:30-4. These lessons allow for your camper to work closely with one of our swim instructors and improve on specific skills.  

At Green Acres Camp,  parents can either drop off/pickup via car OR put their campers on the bus. 

With over 300 campers, we do highly recommend using one of our many bus stops as this helps alleviate traffic on our campus.  Our camp is situated in the middle of a neighborhood so in order to be respectful to the homes around us and keep our campers safe each day, we have many policies/procedures in place. You can view 2024 Carpool Policies here. 2025 Policies will be released prior to the start of camp. 

In an effort to reduce the number of cars coming through the neighborhood and in our carpool line, we have locations very close to camp that serve as satellite bus stops. There is a small additional charge to use the satellite bus.  We will also continue to offer our regular extended bus service.

If you want to grab your camper quickly each day, a satellite stop might be the answer for you! 

Carpooling is a very popular option for afternoon transportation for many of our families. To help reduce afternoon traffic and help get you pick up your campers sooner, we urge camp families to form a carpool of at least three campers, to ride the bus, or to stay in the afternoon care program, which is offered from 3 – 6 pm.

By signing up for a bus, families are agreeing to the following policies:

EACH MORNING: Families should ensure that their children are ready to board the bus at least ten minutes before its scheduled arrival time each morning. Drivers may arrive during this ten-minute span and can reasonably expect children to be ready. The bus driver will wait only two minutes for a child who is not present. 

EACH AFTERNOON: Drivers will wait 2-3 minutes past the expected arrival time. Bus Counselor(s) will contact any absent parents to get an estimated arrival time. The bus will wait a reasonable length of time for late families but if we cannot reach you and/or you are too far away, your child will be brought back to Green Acres Camp for you to pick up after the rest of the route has been completed. 

**IF YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR CAMPER TO BE ABLE TO GET OFF THE BUS WITHOUT A PARENT/GUARDIAN PRESENT AT THE STOP, please email camp@greenacres.org so we can update your transportation information***

I understand that bus services will be provided through Coughlin Transportation Company. A bus counselor will be present on the bus. 

I acknowledge the following: 
- I will support the camper with appropriate safety precautions for bus transportation.
- I will support the camper with appropriate behavior guidelines while traveling, including by reviewing the camper expectations set form in this form and those in the Green Acres Parent Handbook (pages 2, 3 and 4)
- Participation in camp-provided transportation is voluntary
- If I opt to not use the camp-provided transportation, I understand that I am responsibility for providing transportation for the camper to travel to and/or from camp. 

I understand and acknowledge that while traveling to and from campus, the camper is expected to follow all camp rules and policies, including, but not limited to those in the Green Acres Parent Hand Book, and to uphold Green Acres Camp standards of conduct. 

I understand and agree that the students failure to follow these expectations may serve as the basis for disciplinary action from the camp, including termination of the camp bus-riding privileges. 

Yes! We do have a one time fee associated with bus rides that will be charged whenever a bus ride is requested. As with all transportation requests, we will need you to email our camp team with the stop name and copy the parent who your child is riding home with. 

It is important to note that each of our busses have a capacity for safety reasons. We may not know until that day if there is space on a bus but our team will be sure to communicate with you!