Individuals with disabilities, as well as their families, should experience year-round recreational and respite care activities in a camp setting. Camp Courageous of Iowa provides this needed service to all. The camp provides opportunities for social and personal growth within a supportive environment. Campers learn to try a variety of creative and challenging activities and experience success.
Campers develop enhanced self-esteem which carries over to work, home, or school environments.
Camp Courageous of Iowa is located in the beautiful Pictured Rocks area of Jones County, just five miles southeast of Monticello, Iowa off highways 38 or 151. The camp lies on seventy acres of wooded land surrounded by thousands of acres of county park, state primitive land, and the Maquoketa River. For detailed driving directions click here . Camp Courageous was founded in 1972 when forty acres of land was donated for the sole purpose of establishing a camp for the disabled. In 1973 five buildings were built from donated labor and materials.