Mark your calendars for Summer 2011! Please find Ranch Camp session dates below and available program options (program descriptions can be found on the Ranch Camp website). Registration to open soon, please watch out for an email announcing that online registration has officially opened. Receive special Early Bird rates if you register for camp before the end of the calendar year.

Camp Sessions (entering grades 3-9)

Session 1 : June 12-June 26 (2 weeks)

Ranch Program

8^th Ranch Program

EQ Camp

Ninja Acrobat Specialty Camp

TASC

Rock n Ride

Session 2 : June 29-July 17 (2.5 weeks)

Ranch Program

8^th Ranch Program

EQ Camp

TASC

Rock n Ride

Session 3 : July 20-August 7 (2.5 weeks)

Ranch Program

8^th Ranch Program

EQ Camp

TASC

ATID

Session 4 : August 8-August 14 (1 week)

Ranch Program

EQ Camp

Ninja Acrobat Specialty Camp

Mini Camps (entering grades 2-4)

Mini Camp 1 : June 12-June 19 (1 week)

Mini Camp 2 : June 29-July 10 (1.5 weeks)

Mini Camp 3 : July 20-July 31 (1.5 weeks)

Teen Village (entering grade 10)

Teen Village : July 10-August 7 (4 weeks)

Please note that all lost and found items are being housed at the Denver JCC outside the Camp Central office.

All items are organized by session and will on display from August 9-13. Any items not claimed will be donated to charity after Monday, August 16th.

Also, if your child came home with items belonging to another camper, please bring these items to the Denver JCC ASAP so that we can help to get them to their rightful owners.

Hello from JCC Ranch Camp. Second Session is well under way. We are one week into the session and everyone is having a great time. From an opening campfire to a camp wide scavenger hunt and Maccabia we have participated in many fun activities. Our 8th grade girls are well into their 4 day trip and our TASC campers left yesterday. We know they are having a great time and cannot wait to hear about their amazing journeys when they return. We cannot wait for another fun week at Ranch Camp to begin!

It’s Maccabiah!!! was the cry that awoke us this morning at the Ranch Camp. We celebrated the current World Cup by participating in our Ranch Camp version of the games by squaring off Switzerland against South Africa. Teams worked together to complete tasks such as the Mac-O-Peel, Ga-Ga tournaments, BBS, scavenger hunts, and trivia. In the end there was a lot of cheering, spirit and fair play resulting in a win by the usually nuetral Switzerland. We are looking forward to a great day (and some great weather!) tommorrow!!

Hello from Ranch Camp! We are having a great time at camp. This morning our TASC and Rock n’Ride trips left thi and the camp talent show is tonight. Yesterday our cabin of the day was Chad 4, also known as the Mini Girls. They wrote a beautiful poem about Ranch Camp to post on the blog.

Ranch Camp is really fun, we like to play in the sun.
We swim, we dance, we eat a lot; our favorite food is tater tots.
We love our counselors they are the best, wearing us out so we get lots of rest.
WE LOVE RANCH CAMP!
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Shalom from Ranch Camp! We have completed our first afternoon in the sun with tours of camp, swim tests, cabin time and a yummy lunch. Everyone is having a great time getting to know their new cabin mates and counselors and is looking forward to a great session. Our first evening activity is a Ranch Camp tradition- a camp fire filled with songs, cheers and spirit! Tomorrow is our first full day at Ranch Camp filled with smiles, activities, bonding time and FUN! Another wonderful summer at Ranch Camp has begun.

If you need our 2010 forms or information, please find this information available under the Parents tab! Forms available are: Camper Transportation, Health History, and the Parent Questionnaire. Also available for download are the Print-Sign-Mail documents and the 2010 Parent Manual.

Our 2010 Parent Manual and follow-up paperwork is being sent out. The Parent Manual contains important information for the summer, as well as packing lists. Follow-up packet information includes a physician’s form, so be sure to call ahead to your doctor and schedule an appointment OR see if they have a forms fee, if your child has recently had a physical.

Important Dates to keep in mind for the summer:

April 9 - JCC scholarship applications due
May 14 - Summer paperwork due
May 30 - Ranch Camp Open House, 11-3

Here at the winter office of the JCC Ranch Camp the snow is melting, the first flowers are popping up and we are getting excited for the summer!  Down south in Elbert, Colorado, home of Ranch Camp, we are hard at work restoring some of the main cabin building in Banot Village.  While maintaining their historic integrity, we are making improvements to their struction and layout.  We are very excited for the opportunity to improve and perserve Ranch Camp! 

Registration for the summer is filling up incredibly quickly so make sure if you have not registered that you waste no time!  Now is the time to give your child a summer to remember at the JCC Ranch Camp!

2010 Early Bird online registration is now open and accessible through the Ranch Camp website. Simply click on the “Registration” link or on the “Register Today” link on the sidebar to begin. Take advantage of Early Bird pricing by registering for camp before December 31, 2009. We know that this new online system will enable us to provide our families with better customer service, and we sincerely hope that users will find the system to be much more user-friendly (not to mention more environmentally friendly) than paper registration forms.

Register today, and please give us your feedback on this new system by sending a message through the “Contact Us” link.