Camp News

We’re already halfway through January and we’ve got a LOT to look forward to as we plan for our 95th season: Summer 2026. Take a look! 👀

♥️ February 1: Our new and prospective (!!) camper event at Chelsea Piers in NYC! Both and new future campers are welcome! Call or email for more info.

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📧 stacey@timbertops.com

🍀 March: We’ll be attending the American Camp Association Tri-State Conference. We can’t wait to pick up new ideas to bring back to Greeley, PA.

🍃 April: We’ll be finishing up some big improvements we’ve been working on all year long! Our local team wakes up our cabins and we bring our favorite CTT leaders together to fine-tune our camp plans.

🌲 May 30-31: New Camper Weekend at CAMP in Greeley, PA! We can’t wait to spend the weekend enjoying everything CTT has to offer with our new campers and their families.

These are just the highlights! Follow along to see what we’re working on and where we’ll be this year! ☀️

Thanks for reading our blog, friends and loyal followers of Timber Talk. We’ve loved giving you a little window into all things Camp Timber Tops and having you along with us for Summer 2025. We think it’s been our best summer yet. Today we packed, enjoyed an award ceremony and screened the camp video yearbook. Tonight we do wishing boats, and tomorrow morning we’re off. We can’t believe it’s time to say goodbye.

Of all the gifts you can give your children, we truly believe that camp is the greatest gift of all. You can’t give your kids independence, resilience, grit, lifelong friendships, a sense of belonging, adventure – but you can give them camp. And you did. Thank you for entrusting us with *your* most precious gift. We have loved having your daughter down the winding road with us this summer.

Your camper has heard us say it before, but it’s worth repeating now: camp isn’t just a place on a map, it’s a place in your heart. We hope that memories of Camp Timber Tops give your daughter happiness and confidence in every season, through every stage of her life.

As our alma mater goes:

As time goes by like a river, a people alter their ways, we will always remember the joys of Timber Tops days. The friends we’ve made through the summer will be our lasting delight, and the joys and the tears that we’ve known here are the joys of the red and the white.

See you next summer!

Missy, Andy, Anna and all of us at Camp Timber Tops

Tonight’s top-secret Banquet theme, brought to us by the 9th graders was… To Zenia and Beyond! It was Toy Story themed!

Our 9th graders have spent the entire summer (maybe their whole camp lives!) planning, organizing, and putting together tonight’s banquet which honors the CAs for their leadership at camp this year. Banquet is a Timber Tops tradition that we look forward to all summer and take very seriously- from Oaklings to CAs! The entire camp ate breakfast and lunch in the grove to give our 9th graders ample time to prepare in private, and they surpassed all expectations! You would not believe the way our 9th graders transform the dining hall each year, and it’s hard to put into words just how awesome it really is. This is the moment, too, to extend a heartfelt thanks to Ali, head of Arts & Crafts. Ali is at the helm of so much that happens at camp, and banquet is just the cherry on top of what has been a crafty, fabulous summer under her leadership.

“Zenia and Beyond” is colorful and fun and just plain fabulous. Our 9th graders have made shirts for the CAs with “Zenia and Beyond” on the front and a quote from Toy Story on the back “And as the years go by, our friendship will never die. You’re gonna see it’s our destiny. You’ve got a friend in me.” And boy does that ring true. Tonight we’re basking in the glow of this moment together and celebrating our CA summer sisters and all of our friendships and successes here at camp.

It’s our tradition for CAs to get dressed up for banquet while the rest of camp dons their officials. Zenia is officially presented one by one,  thanked, presented with awards, and made to feel like the stars of the show. And they really are and have been all summer. Thank you, Zenia, for a summer filled with love for camp and each other.

After awards are presented at banquet, we have another tradition. Counselors who grew up as campers at CTT serenade the whole camp with a special song to the tune of “Uncle John’s Band.” The lyrics include “When you leave Timber Tops, friends will still remain. People grow, each year will pass, but the memories never change…” We also recognize a new counselor who feels like she’s been here all along! Our “most sucked in” award is coveted, and its shirt (the prize!) is passed on from year to year when its recipient comes back to camp as a returning counselor and passes it on. That’s right, they’ve gotta come back!  

At the end of the banquet, the 9th graders thank Zenia and then, after much anticipation, come together as one to introduce their CA name and CA song for next summer. It’s really an emotional, moving moment every year, and this year was no different. And the CAs next summer are…

Cassia 2026!

Song: Daydream by Tyler Brown Williams

In addition to a big CTT/9th grade (now known as “Cassia”)/Zenia love fest, the night was filled with especially delicious appetizers, dinner and desserts. It was like being at a wedding! It’s called Banquet for a reason. Really, ask your camper all about it!

An extraordinary night for extraordinary people in this extraordinary place. There’s a little extra magic in the air tonight at Camp Timber Tops, even though chants of “we’re not leaving” echo through the trees. It’s a bittersweet but awesome moment in the life of every summer, and this summer is no different.

And, parents, though we’ll post a blog tomorrow (packing day – say it ain’t so!), today marks the last day of Campanion photos being uploaded for summer 2025. Notifications 2026 — let the countdown begin!

What a day! What a life!

Taylor Swift’s new music announcement at lineup this morning wasn’t even the most exciting thing to happen today! Over 100 campers laced up their sneakers and took part in the Hughie & Selma Black 5K Camper Scamper at Pine Forest Camp, and we couldn’t be prouder. Congratulations to every runner and walker who crossed that finish line—you are all champions in our book!

If you haven’t seen it yet, last night’s show, Mamma Mia, is now posted on our YouTube page, and let us tell you—it was a true masterpiece. A standing ovation for our incredibly talented drama staff for an unforgettable season filled with laughter, music, and pure Timber Theater fabulousness!

But perhaps the best news of the day? In between activities, on our last day of regularly scheduled programming, our friends from Lice-Free Noggins came to check the entire camp for lice. The result? Not a single louse in sight! That means we’re ready for ALL the hugs on Friday.

Tonight, we’re so ready for the the big, all-camp social with our friends from Lake Owego Camp. Music, dancing, and a night under the Greeley stars – we’re so ready. It’s been another beautiful day in Greeley, and we’re savoring every single moment. Tomorrow? Banquet … But more on that to come.

Stay tuned, friends and followers! You won’t want to miss that one!

August in Greeley Never Looked So Good!

It’s been another great day down the winding road at Camp Timber Tops! We woke up to the smell of fresh French toast for breakfast — the perfect start to a warm summer day. Lunch was tacos (a camp favorite!), and dinner? Opa! It was Greek Night in the dining hall, complete with delicious Mediterranean flavors to fuel us for the big event… our very own performance of Mamma Mia at the Timber Theater!

The show will nothing short of spectacular — singing, dancing, and so much spirit, we can’t wait to be transported straight to the Greek Isles tonight! Bravo to our cast and crew! And hey, enjoy that cast party. Don’t worry, it’s a canteen day for the rest of us, too!

Other highlights today included a horse show at TOP ranch, a gymnastics show, Wibit fun, lifeguarding classes, queen of the court, ice cream making, and so much more!

We’re happy to be back to our regular schedule after all the excitement of recent days, and we’re soaking up every single moment here together this week!

Oh! Don’t forget to check out our YouTube page for last night’s Pioneer Day closing night!

Check out last night’s Pioneer Days awesome evening program! Dance, Cheer, & Quartet!

Day 3 – Sunday August 10, 2025
7:45 CAs wake up campers
8:10 Junior breakfast; Senior clean up
8:40 Line-up
8:50 Junior clean up; Senior breakfast
9:10 Captains meeting in the dining hall
9:25 Team meetings: Select participants for flagpole and individual activities
9:45 Line-up at the flagpole for flagpole activities which include: pie eating, rope burning, watermelon eating, licorice eating, butter churning, lemon sucking, seed spitting
12:30 Junior lunch; Senior recall
1:00 Junior canteen and rest; Senior lunch and canteen
1:30 Teams begin meal preparation 2.5 hours before judging time
2:00 Team meetings: Finish selecting participants for individual activities
2:30 Report to various activity areas for individual activities which include water relay, cheesewall relay, cargo net climb, gymnastics challenge, archery, adventure, tick tac toe, chopped challenge, fitness challenge
3:45 General Swim: Everyone to the pool
4:00 Judging- Meal and Camp Site (each team creates an elaborate campsite in the woods and cooks a full, gourmet meal over the campfire for the judges)
4:30 Showers
5:30 Junior dinner (SILENT)
6:00 Line-up
6:10 Junior recall; Senior dinner (SILENT)
Committees continue working on projects
6:30 Final preparation
7:30 Line-up at flagpole for the finale – Timber Theater

Tall Tale (each team does a stand-up style retelling of the summer)
Banner (each team has created a banner, presented tonight)
Song (the whole team sings their team song)

Winner announced!

Welcome back, friends! It’s DAY 2 of Pioneer Days! There are all kinds of smaller committees working as hard as ever, but today’s big events are THE ADVENTURE COURSE in the morning (all participate!) and A SWIM MEET this afternoon! And tonight we highlight our smaller committees of barbershop quartet, dance, cheer, and totem pole! It’s one of the best days of summer. Follow along, won’t you?

Pioneer Days DAY TWO!

7:45 CA’s wake up campers
8:10 Junior breakfast; Senior clean up
8:40 Line-up
8:50 Junior clean up; Senior breakfast
**Tall tale must perform at lunch today.
9:00 Captains meeting in the dining hall
9:25 Team meetings: Select participants for tug of war, ridic relay, swim meet + bike relay
10:00 Report to the adventure course prepared to participate (sneakers!)
11:45 Tug of war/ ridiculous relay – meet at upper field
12:30 Junior lunch; Senior recall
1:00 Junior rest; Senior lunch
2:15 Swim meet ————– Bring sneakers for dodgeball too
Bike relay dodgeball
4:30 General Swim: Everyone at the pool
5:00 Showers
6:00 Junior dinner (SILENT)
6:35 Line-up
6:45 Junior recall; Senior dinner (SILENT)
Committees continue working on projects
7:10 Team meetings in preparation for tonight’s evening activities
7:45 Line-up at flagpole for tonight’s evening activities
Cheer — a gymanstics/cheerleading team from each color!
Quartet — each time has been practicing and will perform a barber shop quartet!
Totem Pole — each team designs a totem pole!
Dance — each team presents their dance team!
“Props” — it’s a camp thing!
9:00 Junior bed time
9:30 Junior lights out; Senior bed time
10:00 Senior lights out
Pioneer days OD – rest up for tomorrow’s activities! 🙂