About Us
About Camp Chodikee
A lakeside community built on four hundred acres and decades of summers.
Our story
Camp Chodikee sits on the shoreline of Chodikee Lake in Highland, New York, where the Hudson Valley opens into rolling wooded hills. For decades, families have sent their children here for their first summer away from home, and many of those children have grown up and sent their own kids. What began as a small lakeside retreat has become a residential summer community anchored in three things: the lake, the people, and the simple idea that childhood is better outdoors. Our alumni describe the same experience across generations: a bunk, a cabin group, a counselor who knew their name, and a summer that changed how they saw themselves.
What we believe
Belonging
Every camper has a cabin, a counselor, and a place at the dining hall table from the first day. Community is built on purpose, not left to chance.
The natural world
Time outdoors changes a child. We protect long unstructured hours on the water, in the woods, and around the fire.
Safety as culture
Certified waterfront staff, low camper-to-counselor ratios, and a registered nurse on site around the clock.
Our staff
Every counselor at Camp Chodikee is interviewed in person, background-checked, and trained for a full week before campers arrive. Waterfront staff hold American Canoe Association or US Sailing certifications. Our health center is staffed by a registered nurse for the duration of every session, with a relationship with a local pediatrician's office for anything that needs a clinic visit. We have a returning staff rate above 70 percent, which means most of the people your child meets this summer have been doing this for years.
Come see the waterfront.
Tours run weekly through the spring. We would love to walk you down to the dock.