Camp News

Wow, folks. Can you keep up with us? We can barely keep up with ourselves! It’s WILD here down the winding road and out on the real world, too! As of this morning, ALL seniors have left Greeley, and adventure awaits them all across the northeast!

7th graders spent their first trip day at Zoom Flume Water for a lazy river, a BBQ lunch and tons of fun in the sun! Tonight, it’s Lake George for dinner and exploration!

8th graders enjoyed their first day on the road at Roseland Water Park, also enjoyed a delightful BBQ lunch, and tonight it’s window shopping and dinner in Rochester!

9th graders were livin’ it up at Old Orchard beach today, and they’ll spend the night having dinner and exploring Old Port in Portland, Maine!

10th grade enjoyed a morning at Ontario Beach and the rest of the day at Six Flags! Yas!

And hey, Junior parents! Fear not! WOW was it a fun, fab day in Greeley. CTT/LOC switch day is EPIC every year, and this year was no different. First, all LOC juniors spend the morning at CTT with our campers! We love showing off all activity areas and our beautiful camp! And then, in the afternoon, LOC hosts us at their gorgeous camp!

The good news is that tonight, it’s back to all girls with PANIC for the whole junior division! Panic is a fan favorite that always makes for great photo ops, so check out CampMinder tomorrow, folks (evening program are always included in the next day’s photos)!

WOW. We told you we’ve got a lot going on. We hope your Wednesday was as weird and wonderful as ours! And hey, we’ve got SO much more fun to share tomorrow, so stay tuned.

OH! And if you haven’t yet seen our JUNIOR LIP SYNC videos from the other night, check them out here!

Well, friends, we did it. Visiting Day 2024 has come and gone, and it was definitely one for the books. We can’t tell you how good it felt to see you at camp with your happy campers. It’s truly been such a great summer down the winding road, and we really couldn’t wait to share it with you! For you to see it and believe it for yourselves! And the day didn’t disappoint. We loved watching you on the Wibits (not so easy, we know!), making s’mores, playing paddle, creating in A&C, and just spending good, quality time walking up and down Lily Lane! Thank you for coming and sharing our summer home with us. And mostly, thank you for sharing your Timber Tops girls with us! We are simply glowing.

And ya know who else is glowing? Our second session friends who spent the day at the water park! But they’re glowing in a happy way, we promise (and not the forgot-to-wear-sunscreen kinda way). It was a GREAT and happy, successful day all around.

And now we’re back in action for this evening, and we definitely mean business. What’s the only thing better than Halloween in October? TIMBERWEEN in July! 

We always tell people that the highlights of camp are often evening programs, and it’s true. But some evening programs stand out even more than the rest! Some evening programs have been Timber Tops tradition for as long as we can remember! Some evening programs have kids talking and planning for days in advance… Tonight, our evening program checks all of those boxes and more! Timberween is finally here! 

Timberween involves dressing up in costume (some campy, some not), costume parades, and, of course, Trick or Treating for candy! Make sure to check out CampMinder photos tomorrow to see us in action! 

Goodnight from Greeley! And sleep well, moms and dads! You did it! We did it! Now back to CAMP!

What a great day here at Camp Timber Tops. And no, it isn’t just because the pool was buzzing and arts & crafts was hopping and the adventure course was swinging… It’s CATURDAY! What’s Caturday, you ask? Well, it’s Saturday here at camp…But dressed as CATS. There’s not much more to it than that! A longtime CTT tradition, we were happy to don our cat ears and wacky cat shirts and meow the camp dance at lineup. What a weird and wonderful Caturday we had!

And tonight’s the Jellybean Campfire! One big circle! With everybody in it! We can’t wait!

Tomorrow, we have two MAJOR happenings:

Our SECOND SESSION campers will be heading to the waterpark for a day of fun in the sun! They’ll leave before full-season families arrive for Visiting Day, and they’ll return after parents leave. What a great day they’re in for!

Our FULL SUMMER campers will be welcoming you, families, here for VISITING DAY! The tent is up! The bunks are (as) neat (as they’re gonna get)! We are SO ready to see you we’re bursting with excitement. REMEMBER: no nuts, no dogs! Don’t bring too much! You’re the gift! Camp if the gift! Visiting begins at 11:30 and ends at 3PM.

It’s going to be a GREAT day for all Timber Tops girls tomorrow! We hope we can sleep tonight! If you can’t check out our WEEK FOUR video below! The fun never stops here at CTT!

Meow!

Howdy, Friends!

It’s another beautiful day in Downtown Greeley! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and we’re lovin’ the chillier-than-it-has-been weather here at camp. Sweatshirts! We missed you! Well, we’re not sure our Polar Bears appreciated the 57 degree wakeup so much, but they were still out in full force before 7AM this morning!

Our Polar Bear Club is reserved for those who opt into 3 mornings of early wake ups and a jump into the lake to sing three songs before everyone else is up! In exchange, proud Polar Bears get bragging rights, hot chocolate, a chocolate chip cookies before breakfast, and a Polar Bear Club t-shirt. And even though some of our first-session friends already earned their winnings, they couldn’t stay away! We love Polar Bears!

Today we enjoyed more Greeley Games against PFC, today including a dance competition, softball, soccer, basketball and lacrosse! And another Tops Cooks class! And the day ended with a 5k for all those interested which was AWESOME! And while we participated in regular activities, we continued to surprise and be surprised by our JELLYBEANS! Everyone at camp picks a name out of a hat, and that name becomes a person’s Jellybean! We all have a Jellybean, and each of us is a Jellybean! Cool! It’s a way to make new friends and connect with each other in these first few days of second session. And wait! There’s a catch! You keep your Jellybean a secret until the big reveal at tomorrow night’s Jellybean campfire. In the meantime, we’re leaving each other notes and small gifts and tokens and mostly just lots of excitement for tomorrow’s reveal. That’s why, sometimes, we’re making these deliveries in costume! Things are wild here at camp.

Tonight, it’s Ridiculous Relays for Juniors and a SOCIAL with LOC for the Seniors!

Let the good times roll!

Pictured above, our senior POWER WALKING CLASS! YAS!

Dear Friends and Followers,

What a day! What a life! Our first full day of Second Session has been action packed! Make sure you see it all for yourselves by logging into CampMinder and following us along on Instagram!

Wow, what HAVEN’T we done today?! We’re exhausted! We tried out for the Second Session play: Tangled! We had a Top Cooks class with foods ranging from Israeli salad to rice crispy s’mores. We canoed the Delaware River! We played in Greeley Games, inter-camp athletic games (tennis! lacrosse! soccer! basketball!) against Pine Forest! We took Junior Second Session Bunk photos! We ate a delightful grove lunch of hamburgers, hotdogs, veggie burgers, watermelon, pasta salad, and so much more! We experienced our first-ever “power walking” senior choice class! Life is good!

Tonight, steak sandwiches (meat and chicken) and fries for dinner, ice pops for dessert, and Adventure Challenge for Low Juniors (rising 2nd through rising 5th graders), Bonding Games for Hi Juniors (6th graders), Low Senior Panic, and High Senior Bonding!

And JELLY BEANS have started! For now, we’ll share the picture below…What’s going on!? More on that tomorrow! All we can say is, it’s pretty fun here!

They’re here! It’s happening! Second session is in full swing! We are SO excited to welcome and welcome back our CTT sisters. The excitement around here today was palpable – GREAT vibes all around! And it’s been a sunny, happy, beautiful day (tonight it rained, but we don’t mind)! We’re so excited to get this second session party started. 

The NY, PA, and MD bus arrived this morning by lunchtime, and cars filled with excited campers trickled in throughout the morning as well. This afternoon we headed down to the lake for a LAKE PARTY! And what a party it was. There was s’more making (yum), boating, swimming and ice breakers, of course. All made for an awesome afternoon of fun! And the pool was open! And we enjoyed senior choice and get-to-know-you meetings! We also made sure that all second-session campers had health and lice checks by the lice company! Phew! Another busy day.

Tonight, it was the staff show THE REMIX! We sang and we danced and we sacked and we laughed the night away as one whole camp in the Fitness Center (since the Timber Theater was still damp)- Here we are below! The fun never stops at CTT. Tune in to tomorrow’s Timber Talk for more camp-tastic fun down the winding road!

Well, folks, it’s that time. Time to pack up and say goodbye to our wonderful first-session campers. We just cannot believe how fast this first half of our summer has flown. We’re sure that your first-session camper will be thrilled to see you, but we’re also pretty sure that she’s feeling sad to leave this magical place down the winding road. A heartfelt thanks you for lending your first-session campers to us for the summer. We miss her already.

Today was an unusual one. It was packing for for those first session campers, followed by a gymnastics show and a dance show too. There’s also an award ceremony to boot! It’s the perfect opportunity to showcase all of the amazing things we’ve learned in this short first half of summer. We already miss our first-session campers! It just won’t be the same without them.

Tonight, we have our official first-session sendoff evening program. “Wishing Well,” down the winding road into camp, is an evening program where those leaving tomorrow will line Mitchell Creek, penny in hand, and throw their penny over their shoulder, into the creek, making a wish for next summer. The rest of us stand on the other side and watch. We then walk back down the path together, singing camp songs, one final time. Tonight is a beautiful, emotional night at camp.

Tomorrow? Over 220 of us full season campers wave goodbye to our first-session campers and promptly head off to the water park for some distracting, full-season, once-a-summer, beat-the-heat, all-day camp fun (and some of our staff will stay back to clean up and make camp look as good as new)! And tomorrow night, the FULL SUMMER CLUB rules! IYKYK! More on that to come! To be continued…

Dear Friends and Followers,

Say it ain’t so. It was a great day, a final day, of regular scheduled programming for our first-session campers. We took full advantage of beautiful weather in the pool and on Lake Selma and just about everywhere else in between. We even had chicken patties for lunch!

Today we also held all-day play practice for those in tonight’s big show, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory! Do you have a daughter in the play? Doing stage crew? Helping with the set? Perhaps an Oompa Loompa? Good news! No matter your role, everyone will enjoy cake at the cast party afterwards! And the rest of us can’t wait to sit back, relax and do what we do best: cheer on our bunk mates!

Another great night ahead in Greeley, PA!