Christian Summer Camps: Eagle Lake Camp in Colorado Springs, CO
Eagle Lake is made up of 330 acres of the most beautiful land in the Pike National Forest. The camp offers a great summer outdoors experience in God's creation mixed with beautiful cabins, numerous activities and water fun on the camps own private ten-acre lake.
The goal of Eagle Lake Camp is to encourage Christ centered love through counselor relationships in this exciting outdoor experience. The camp was established by the founder of the Navigators an interdenominational nonprofit organization Dawson Trutman. When the land was purchased for the corporate headquarters for the Navigators it included the 330-acre Eagle Lake property.
Spiritual development of the campers through counselor relationships, bible studies, prayer, worship and much more is extremely important to the camp. There is a three to one camper to counselor ratio. Each camper has the opportunity to grow with the counselor's wisdom, leadership and scriptural knowledge.
There are many activities offered at Eagle Lake Camp. Campers meet together each night for night games, indoor and outdoor games, speakers, worship, prayer and nightly surprises. There are also weekend activities such as hiking, swimming, canoeing, kayaking, team games, rock climbing and much more.
Eagle Lake's Resident Camp has a multitude of fun activities that fulfill everyone's interest. Each summer the camp presents a new theme for the camp. The beautiful 9,600 ft elevation only nine miles northwest of Colorado Springs is breathtaking. Among the many activities available is the zipline where you can zip down at 35-miles-per-hour.
The Eagle Lakes Excursion Camp will satisfy guests' appetite for adventure. Often on the same trip campers' travel by foot, bike, canoe or kayak. Wilderness skills are learned with a team centered leadership by each patrol. The excursion camps help develop outdoor skills while inspiring campers to pursue the Creator of all outdoors while exploring.
At Eagle Lake Camp fun, safety and inspiration are on the top of the list of achievements of this camp. If you want a summer experience where you can find adventure in the great outdoors of Colorado and connecting with your spiritual side this is the camp for you.
To find out more about Eagle Lake Camp contact:
Eagle Lake Camp
P.O. Box 6819
Colorado Springs, CO 80934
Phone: 800-873-2453
Fax: 719-623-0148 www.navigators.org/us/ministries/eaglelake/
Published by Allen Bell
Allen lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with his wife and two daughters. He is currently a freelance writer who is working on his first novel. View profile
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- Eagle Lake is made up of 330 acres of the most beautiful land in the Pike National Forest.
- There are many activities offered at Eagle Lake Camp.
- Eagle Lake Camp is dedicated to as safe, fun and spiritual awakening summer camp experience for all.
3 Comments
Post a CommentI would have given this camp zero stars if I could. My 11-year-old went to Eagle Lake for the first time summer of 2009. It was a terrible experience. The camp is disorganized, the counselors are not friendly to parents. The staff is secretive and misleading. My son was there during a Swine Flu outbreak, it was handeled terribly. The clinic was full so they started simply giving kids tylenol and sending them back to camp. They don't notify parents of illness until kids have spent an overnight in the clinic. The counselors were ill and sleeping in the cabins with the kids. The illness spread very quickly. On family visit day there were sick kids laying on the ground all over camp. Youngsters sound asleep in the dirt, on the beach, in full sweat suits in the hot sun. No leaders were with them. Kids were running up to parents as we arrived crying and begging to go home. When I asked staff what was going on, they minimized everything and were condescending, evasive and secretive. I asked s
The camp is beautiful but in poor shape and not well-maintained. They don't have the facilities to accomodate the number of kids they allow at camp to experience the different things they offer. The counselors are a mixed bag and their screening process is minimal. The college kids are there more for themselves than the campers so there is not a lot of relationship building that happens. The medical staff are poorly trained both medically and relationally and their main desire seems to get the kids out of their hair. The camp borders on obsessiveness with control of what the camper can do and not do, bring and not bring and even if they are sick they don't allow a call to home. I think this comes from insecurity about what the camper will communicate about his/her care.
Another great review Allen..