At these Nature Summer Camps near Ann Arbor your kids will learn to appreciate the world around us. These camps include outdoor nature camps, animal camps, and ecology camps.
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The Most Comprehensive Ann Arbor Summer Camps 2025 List
There are so many Summer Camps near Ann Arbor that it can be hard to narrow down which camps your child will attend. Our 2025 Summer Camp Guide strives to bring you the information you need to find the best Ann Arbor camps for your family. Be sure to keep checking back. While many camps […]
2025 Nature Summer Camps Near Ann Arbor
At these camps, your child’s camp experience will include a focus on nature – the outdoors, environment, ecology, plants, animals, and more. Most camps will include arts and crafts and spending time outdoors. Kids will learn new skills and gain a love of nature.
This list includes both indoor and outdoor summer camps near Ann Arbor that focus on nature. Camps like Leslie Science and Nature Center are almost all outside while other camps spend more time indoor but focus on animals or ecology.
2025 summer camps are still being announced. Check out these 2025 listings and then check the section below for 2024 camps and wait for updates.
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Some camps listed may offer a wide variety of themed camps that include Nature camps. Not all of their camp sessions will be nature camps.
Camp Raanana
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Music, Outdoors, Religious
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Financial Aid Available
Price: $458/week, $416/week for JCC Members
Registration Opens: February 3, 2025
Maximum Day: 8:10a-6:00 pm
Availability: Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Apple Scouts Nature Immersion Camp
Apple Playschools’ Apple Scouts is a gender-inclusive, multi-age, outdoors camp based on the belief that all children have the right to play and connect to the natural world. Children in our camp programs are immersed in the outdoors in all kinds of weather. Through child-initiated activities like hiking, tracking, mapping, playing, building, and creating, Apple Scouts explore the rich surroundings offered by local parks, woods, trails – even the farmer’s market! Campers traverse the community by bus and foot, growing alongside the neighbors and nature they encounter.
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Outdoors, STEM
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School
Enrollment Types: Multi-Week, Full Day
Financial Aid Available
Price: Two week Sessions (week 1-4): $640/two week session, after care $150/session. One week session (week 5): $320/one week session, after care $75/session
Registration Opens: January 6, 2025
Maximum Day: 8:30am-5:30pm
Availability: Selling Out Fast
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Stone School Cooperative Preschool Summer Camp
Join Stone School for their Summer Camp session! 9 Weeks of themed camps, with activities, games, and art projects. Half-Day and Full-Day Options.
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Outdoors
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Price: $225/9a-2p, $175/9a-noon
Registration Opens: February 1, 2025
Maximum Day: 9a-2p
Availability: Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor Summer Camp
Camp Categories: Academic, Animals/Nature, Art, Food, Outdoors, Pop Culture, STEM
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Carousel Acres
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22, Week 11 – After August 25
Camp Explorations
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, STEM
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
PandaPrograms
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Kensington Day Camp
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day, Half Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8
Blue Turtle Nature Awareness and Wilderness Skills Camp
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8
Michigan Audubon Young Birders Camp
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature
Camp Ages: 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Overnight
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27
Emerson School
Camp Categories: Academic, Animals/Nature, Art, Computer, Food, LEGO, Music, Outdoors, Pop Culture, Sport, STEM, Theater
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Ann Arbor YMCA Day Camps
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Computer, Food, LEGO, Outdoors, Pop Culture, Sport, STEM, Theater
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Unity in Learning/Leslie Science Center & Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors, STEM
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22, Week 11 – After August 25
Happy Hooves
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Special Needs
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Half Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 08 – August 4-8
PAX Gymnastics
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Pop Culture, Sport
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Half Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 08 – August 4-8
Hell Creek Equestrian Center
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Girl Scout Overnight Camp
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors, Overnight
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Multi-Week, Full Week, Overnight
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8
Creature Conservancy
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Camp Dexter
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Sport, STEM
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Cedar Ridge Equestrian Center Horse Camp
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Sport
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Camp Paws
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Michigan Out-of-Doors Youth Camp
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors, Overnight
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Overnight
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8
Renaissance Equestrian Center Summer Camp
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Sport
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 10 – August 18-22
The Farm at St Joe’s
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Food, Outdoors
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1
Ann Arbor Rec & Ed
Locations:
- Lily Weightlifting, Plaza Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- PKSA Karate Ann Arbor North, Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Tappan Middle School, East Stadium Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Westerman Preschool and Family Center, Boardwalk Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Allmendinger Park, Pauline Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Freeman Environmental Education Center, 3540 Dixboro Lane, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Skyline High School, 2552 North Maple Road, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Pioneer High School, 601 West Stadium Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Lawton Elementary School, 2250 South 7th Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Lakewood Elementary School, 344 Gralake Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Abbot Elementary School, 2670 Sequoia Parkway, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Camp Categories: Academic, Animals/Nature, Art, Computer, Food, Music, Pop Culture, Sport, STEM, Theater
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Maybury Farm Camp
Locations:
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors
Camp Ages: Elementary School
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Summers-Knoll School
Camp Categories: Academic, Animals/Nature, Art, Food, Music, Pop Culture, STEM, Theater
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Camp Gan Israel
Locations:
Camp Categories: Academic, Animals/Nature, Art, Outdoors, Sport, STEM
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders
Enrollment Types: Multi-Week, Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Financial Aid Available
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1
Camp Georgetown
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Pop Culture, STEM
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
Howell Nature Center
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Overnight
Camp Year: 2025
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15
2024 Ann Arbor Nature Summer Camps
Camps are still publishing their 2025 camps. We are still waiting on updates for the following camps that were offered in 2024. Their 2024 information is shown below (note dates for each week have been updated to 2025 dates)
Great Escape Stables
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Outdoors, Sport
Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Camp Year: 2023
Weeks: Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Grand Maple Farm Horse Camp
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Outdoors
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders, High Schoolers
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration
Camp Year: 2024
Weeks: Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 09 – August 11-15
Teddy Bear Day Care & Learning Center
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Food, Sport
Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders
Enrollment Types: Multi-Week, Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day
Camp Year: 2024
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 03 – June 30-July 4, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 06 – July 21-25, Week 07 – July 28-August 1, Week 08 – August 4-8, Week 09 – August 11-15, Week 10 – August 18-22
Camp Curiouser
Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art
Camp Ages: Elementary School, 6th Graders, 7th Graders, 8th Graders
Enrollment Types: Full Week, Full Day, Half Day
Camp Year: 2024
Weeks: Before June 16, Week 01 – June 16-20, Week 02 – June 23-27, Week 04 – July 7-11, Week 05 – July 14-18, Week 07 – July 28-August 1
