The camp social is an age old tradition that dates back to the very early days of Birch Hill in the 1930’s! Each session Camp Birch Hill puts on two Friday night socials for our campers as evening program.  The social always has a different theme that is created by our counselors in training.  Everyone…

  Welcome to another edition of our evening program spotlight!  So far we have discussed Batman vs Superman and Capture the Flag.  Today we are are going to be talking about Egyptian Water Polo.  As you can see from all the photos below, half of the fun of this particular evening program is the theatrics!…

  Evening program, also known as EP is how we round off each epic day at Camp Birch Hill.  In our first blog about EP we talked about Capture the Flag.  Now we are here to tell you all about Batman vs Superman.  Campers absolutely love this one and we generally play it towards the…

Exciting news camp friends!  We are introducing a brand new spotlight to our blog.  For the first time ever we are going to be showcasing the different evening programs that we have here at camp.  For those of you who haven’t been lucky enough to take part in an evening program at Camp Birch Hill,…

Each year our campers that are over the age of 12 are offered the opportunity to experience a rafting trip on the Class IV Kennebec River in The Forks, Maine.  This exciting adventure takes place in the second week of camp each session and has been a camper highlight year after year for over a…

One of the many parts of camp life that campers look forward to year after year is our evening programs. Every summer when camp begins our staff come prepared with a big list of fun and creative activities we can do with campers each evening after dinner time. Some of our evening programs are beloved,…

Gah Gah for Ga-ga Ball!   If you haven’t heard of Ga-ga Ball before you are in for quite a treat!  At Camp Birch Hill our campers and staff have an absolute ball playing this game.  Whether it’s between breakfast, lunch, or dinner, you can almost always head to the Ga-ga Pit for a round…

One thing we don’t do at camp is let anything rain on our parade; especially rain!  Nobody can ever truly know what the weather will do while we’re at camp enjoying the great outdoors, that’s why we come prepared.  When getting ready for camp, our campers pack all their essential needs for wet weather.  This…