Summer registration now open for YMCA Camp Glacier Hollow

By Patrick Lynn

Summer camp registration is now open for local kids ages 5 to 17.

Several summer programs are being offered by the Stevens Point Area YMCA at Camp Glacier Hollow in Amherst Junction. For campers ages 5 to 7, the programming is held in Stevens Point.

Programs range from traditional resident overnight camps, day camps, and adventure trips. Older kids are also eligible to become part of the Y’s “Leaders in Training” or “Counselors in Training” programs, which help improve leadership and social skills and develop into successful, confident leaders.

Y camps offer programming that teaches about the environment, skills like archery, kayaking, and fishing, and encourage campers to develop positive values, have fun and make friends.

The Stevens Point Area YMCA began leasing Glacier Hollow in 1998 for its two-week-long resident camps and began leasing the entire facility in 2005 for additional programming. The Y purchased the camp in 2010, and now operated the nature-based co-ed camp focusing on traditional camp experiences like hiking, campfires, canoeing, archery, fishing, and more.

The camp was founded under the name Camp Mikquano in 1947 by Mr. and Mrs. Welton Alm. In 1966, Dr. and Mrs. Bob Schmatz purchased camp and ran it as a private boy’s summer camp until 1978, when Keith and Terry Eichmann purchased the camp in 1985, expanding programming to include girls, and changed the name to Glacier Hollow.

Camp Glacier Hollow expands over 93 acres, much of it undeveloped, overlooking Lake Elaine, about 14 miles east of Stevens Point.

To register go to https://www.glacierhollow.com, or email Daniel Trader, Camp & School Age Child Care Director at [email protected].

Financial assistance is available and applications are confidential.