Summer Camps
When school lets out, it's time for prairie play!
2024 Summer Camps Registration Open Now
Send your kids on an educational adventure like no other where they’ll go back in time to experience the life of child on the prairies and discover the fun and history of the west! In 2024, we’re offering three summer camps:
- Prairie Explorers Day Camp
- Heritage Artists Day Camp
- Home on the Range Overnight Camp
Scroll down to learn more about these camps and register.
Heritage Artists Day Camp: Ages 11-14
Explore Heritage Park and history through art and nature activities! Wear a historic costume and experience the life in the early west as an artist.
- Sketch nature and wildlife at the Bissett Wetlands;
- Try needle-felting and dyeing using natural materials;
- Learn the art of Telegraphy
- Visit an antique printing press and make your own art print;
- Take a carriage ride around the town
Home on the Range Overnight Camp: Ages 12-15
Live like a true prairie child in our overnight camp program. You will have so much fun that you won’t want to leave; and for 5 full days you won’t have to! You and your new friends will be immersed in the past from sunrise to sunset…and beyond! Go behind the scenes of Heritage Park in a way few people ever experience.
- Sleep in a 100-year-old bunkhouse
- Explore the Park after dark
- Attend a barn dance with live fiddle music
- Meet and care for our ranch animals
- Sing-along at a campfire
Prairie Explorers Day Camp Ages 6-11
Travel back in time and experience what life was like over 100 years ago! Wear a historic costume and explore Heritage Park through games, activities, and crafts.
- Attend a one-room school house
- Ride a real steam train
- Watch a play in a log opera house
- Meet our farm animals and tour the ranch