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Adventure Awaits at 30+ Nature Camps Near Ann Arbor

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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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  1. More Summer Camps
  2. 2025 Nature Summer Camps Near Ann Arbor
  3. 2024 Ann Arbor Nature Summer Camps

More Summer Camps

Don’t miss our full Summer Camp Guide sponsored by Rocks and Robots. The full guide includes camps of all types plus links to other sub-guides like this Nature Camp Guide.

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 […]

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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.

Note: List order is randomized each time the page is loaded with our sponsors showing at the top. Sponsors listings include a description and an image/logo.

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.

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 Cooperative Preschool for their Summer Camp 2025 Sessions! They have 9 weeks of summer camp this year, each with a different theme ranging from plants & gardening,…

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

Camp Georgetown

Locations:

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

Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor Summer Camp

Locations:

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

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

Renaissance Equestrian Center Summer Camp

Locations:

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

Carousel Acres

Locations:

Camp Categories: Animals/Nature

Camp Ages: Preschoolers, Kindergarteners, Elementary School, 6th Graders

Enrollment Types: Full Week, Daily Registration, Full Day

Camp Year: 2025

Weeks: After August 25, 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 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

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: After August 25, 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

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

Ann Arbor Rec & Ed

Locations:

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

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

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

Creature Conservancy

Locations:

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

Emerson School

Locations:

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

Cedar Ridge Equestrian Center Horse Camp

Locations:

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

Hell Creek Equestrian Center

Locations:

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

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

Maybury Farm Camp

Locations:

No locations listed

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

PandaPrograms

Locations:

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

Howell Nature Center

Locations:

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

PAX Gymnastics

Locations:

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

Kensington Day Camp

Locations:

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

Summers-Knoll School

Locations:

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 Raanana

Locations:

Camp Categories: Animals/Nature, Art, Music, Outdoors

Camp Ages: Kindergarteners, 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 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

Happy Hooves

Locations:

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

The Farm at St Joe’s

Locations:

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

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

Michigan Audubon Young Birders Camp

Locations:

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

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)

Grand Maple Farm Horse Camp

Locations:

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

Camp Curiouser

Locations:

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

Teddy Bear Day Care & Learning Center

Locations:

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

Great Escape Stables

Locations:

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

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