For each of several summers in the mid to late 1970's, I spent a week at Quaker Canyon Camp. QCC was a Christian-based summer camp, and offered such summer camp activities as archery, horseback riding (the memory of which is still painful), and lots of learning about Jesus. Recently, I've been wondering whatever happened to Quaker Canyon Camp, so I googled for the term. It (or its memory) certainly doesn't have much of a web presence. At the time of this writing, only two hits were returned:
- A Religious Studies professor who mentions he spoke to campers there after he graduated from high school.
- Someone else asking whatever happened to Quaker Canyon Camp.
(So this page will likely be the third.)
If you have any information regarding the fate or status of Quaker Canyon Camp, please let me know (by leaving a comment). Is it still going? Was it shut down and turned into a strip mine? If so, then when? Thanks.
2 comments:
I asked the above question to First Friends Church in Canton, and got this reply.
Quaker Canyon no longer exists. It was sold and is no longer used as a camp. We now have a camp facility near Carrollton, OH - Camp Gideon - which is used year around. The website address for it is http://www.campgideon.org/.
I never got the opportunity to attend Quaker Canyon Camp.
One year, I went to Camp Wakonda with a friend. I signed up for the "soccer" group, which seemed like a great idea at the time.
As it turned out, it meant playing soccer about eight hours a day in 90 degree heat. I couldn't wait to get home.
According to Wakonda's web page, Words don't do justice
when describing this jam-packed summer of thrills.Words don't do it justice, all right.
BTW, Camp Wakonda's in Sherrodsville.
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