Independent Lake Camp

Camp Facilities

A Superior Pocono Mountain Summer Camp with the following facilities:

• Over 50 residential cabins to sleep up to 850 including staff
• Gymnasium, sports fields, tennis courts, pickleball courts, archery range, volleyball courts, & a full sized soccer field
• Private 100 acre lake with water skiing, wakeboarding, sailing, kayaking, SUP's, & a heated pool
• Theatre seating 850, two dance studios, magic building complete with stage
• Dining room seating 850 people with fully equipped kitchen 
• Brand new, state-of-the-art medical center
• Brand new outdoor high ropes course, and indoor climbing wall
• Music practice spaces, outdoor performance stages, & a purpose-built recording studio 
• Circus complex, two outdoor flying trapezes
• Gymnastics Pavillion w/ full size cheerleading sprung floor
• Creative arts center with multiple spaces including ceramics studio and digital arts spaces including iMac computer lab 
• Skatepark with over 20 ramps, rails and elements
• Horse stables, riding ring and miles of trails
• Fitness center 
• Go-Kart track
• Chicken coop and much more!

Camp Staff

OUR STAFF

Independent Lake Camp has approximately 225-240 staff.

ILC Counselors are 18 + years old and range from college students though to teachers and athletes. We have a large number of returing staff who bring experience and share the traditions and pass on the magic of ILC.  We hire staff from all over the world who bring diversity and an energy like no other to the ILC community. All staff must have significant experience, or certifications in the activity they teach and a passion to share their skill with campers of all ages. 

All Staff are personally interteview, reference checked, attend a manditory 8 day orientation training and get a criminal background check and sexual offenders check. 

ILC invests heavily in Management, Head Counselors and  Department Heads who are all professionals in their fields, Many of which are school teachers, administrators, and parents. See our website to meet our team and Directors - https://www.independentlake.com/about/owners-directors/

MEDICAL TEAM

Independent Lake has a team of nurses and doctors which live on site thoughout the camp season.  With access to a number of hospitals and medical facilities from 20-40 mins away.  

OUR MISSION AND PURPOSE 

To Respect and celebrate diversity: honoring people for whom they are, in an open-minded and open-hearted spirit of trust, acceptance, recognition, and kindness.

To Create a safe, supportive, exciting summer of discovery during which campers experience and connect to people of all ages and backgrounds, and in the process connect to all aspects of their own diverse selves as well.

To Understand that "fun" and "learning" should be synonyms (especially in summer!), leading to greater physical, emotional, and intellectual skills, comfort levels, and pride: observable gifts of growth with which the child returns home.

To Challenge counselors, staff, and all who work with our campers, to set the standard for, and to achieve, the ideal in positive, successful,life-enriching interactions with every single child.

To Nurture and endow young people with such a wealth of esteem for themselves, for humanity, and for the adventure and meaningful joy possible in life, that, entering the larger stage of adult community, they heal,repair, and enhance our world-at-large.