01. GIRL’S CAMP
CABIN LIFE
Home sweet home! Cabin life is at the heart of every sleepaway camp experience. The cabin is where campers unwind at the end of a day, cultivate lifelong friendships, and connect with inspiring camp counselor mentors. So what’s it really like to live at this sleepaway camp in the North Carolina mountains?
LIVING AT SKYLAND
Campers will be housed in either a cabin or in Skyland’s main lodge, depending on their age. No matter where campers call home for the summer, they’ll be sleeping on screened-in sleeping porches (for a treehouse feel!), where they can hear the morning birds, listen to the light rain, or watch the fireflies as they drift off to sleep in the mountains of North Carolina.
SKYLAND’S MAIN LODGE
Skyland’s Main Lodge, which was built as a Victorian hotel near the turn of the 20th century, features the original hotel rooms and a 2nd-story screened-in wrap-around sleeping porch. Younger campers are divided into smaller groups by grade level, and each group has a room to call their own. Each room is lined with shelves, and each camper receives a set of shelves that she can use to unpack her clothes and store her camp gear. Campers gather for group activities in their room with their counselors – before they climb out the window onto the screened-in porch for a good night’s sleep after an active day. (Doors are also available, but it’s MUCH more fun to climb through an old Victorian window that’s been permanently opened for the summer fun!)
THE CABINS
Our older campers (typically rising 6th graders and older) live in Skyland’s historic cabins that were originally built in the 1920s as family summer cottages. Campers are housed by grade level, with eight to ten girls per cabin, and 2 to 3 counselors per group. Girls sleep on the screened-in sleeping porches, and keep their items on their selected set of shelves in the interior rooms. Each cabin has a bathroom and sink, and most have private showers. Even with the cabin showers, many campers prefer to use one of the two separate shower huts that contain multiple shower stalls, WCs and sinks.
