With 33 buildings on 150 acres of woods, fields and waterfront, the camp on North Pond in Rome, Maine provides a traditional camping experience each s ummer to about 500 Maine children and adults with moderate to severe disabilities. Pine Tree Camp enables its campers with disabilities to swim, fish, go boating, play athletic games, make arts and crafts projects and camp overnight around a roaring fire in a fully accessible setting. Students work with children ages 8-18 with mostly physical handicaps such as cerebral palsy, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, or impaired mobility due to trauma. Many children are in wheelchairs.
Students stay in a dormitory and all meals are provided.
This summer one session will be offered, June 29 - July 28, 2001. See Carol Doane for details. For a link to Pinetree Camp, directions, more information, and pictures of previous student groups, click here . For questions or comments, please contact us . Originally created by Laurie Caton-Lemos.