The safety of your child remains our top priority, and we look forward to a healthy camp season as we celebrate Camp Allen’s 100th summer.
With COVID-19 infection rates falling, vaccinations widely available for anyone 12 and up, and nearly all of our staff vaccinated, we are taking our first steps towards getting back to normal. Based on the latest CDC recommendations and state guidelines, we are beginning to repeal select restrictions established last summer while maintaining a safe camp environment. We will communicate these changes with families as they are made.
With COVID-19 infection rates falling, vaccinations widely available for anyone 12 and up, and nearly all of our staff vaccinated, we are taking our first steps towards getting back to normal. Based on the latest CDC recommendations and state guidelines, we are beginning to repeal select restrictions established last summer while maintaining a safe camp environment. We will communicate these changes with families as they are made.
face coverings
Face coverings are optional for vaccinated families and campers at Camp Allen and encouraged for those who are not vaccinated. Food service personnel and many staff interfacing with the general public will remain masked.
sanitation
Additional resources and staff have been allocated to maintain clean equipment, ropes course supplies, high contact points, and outdoor seating areas. Also, a commercial-grade, non-toxic, long term sanitation product will be applied to every building within our campsites and in all rec spaces. Blocks of time will be built into the schedule several times a day for campers to wash hands and sanitize.
health screenings
Illness screening will occur during registration and while camp is in session with daily wellness checks. Should a camper register a temperature of 100 degrees, or display other COVID-19 symptoms, the child will be isolated from the other children at the Camper Health Center and the nurse will contact the parent/ guardian. The medical staff may request an immediate pick up of the camper and a prompt COVID-19 test, notifying Camp Allen of the results. Should any camper or staff member within your child’s session test positive for COVID-19, management will inform all families of the possible exposure.
Community gatherings
The schedule has been adapted to decrease group gathering sizes, especially when using indoor spaces. All age groups will dine at campsite #4 this summer, but no more than two campsites will be present at any given time and the room is large enough to maintain appropriate spacing. Activities have also been adjusted to allow cabins to act as family units, and to create distancing between each group. Many of our existing activities do not require additional distancing (archery, horseback riding, fishing, blobbing, paddling, live clue etc.) and those that do, will be modified appropriately. We promise that the new schedule is going to be action packed and will still feel familiar to our seasoned campers.