Use code WVBBA5WW at checkout.
Yearly Membership does not qualify for this discount. To upgrade or purchase a membership, go to visit our online store
Codes applied that do not qualify will not be processed and you will need to place your order again without the code to complete your purchase.
If you have questions, email carysbrookalumnae@gmail.com.
Hotel rooms in the area will be in high demand this September. Be sure to plan ahead for your accommodations!
The Inn at Virginia Tech has worked with us to lock in a rate of $299 – $319 per night (depending on room selection) with a minimum two-night stay. We now have early access to their room reservation system before the general public. Availability is limited due to campus events so we recommend booking as soon as possible! If you call their reservation line (540-231-8000), please use the reference “Camp Carysbrook Anniversary” to get the special rate.
Or use the special link below to access the room request page for the event:
The Hotel Floyd has set aside a block of rooms for us starting at $139/night. They also have discounts for AAA and AARP members. If you call (540-745-6080) to make a reservation please use the six digit code: 299105
Or use the special link here to access the online reservation system for the event:
Due to facility capacity limitations at camp, the reunion will be limited to 150 participants with bunks for 100 (staying at camp) so please purchase your tickets early!
We are so grateful for the generous offer to help in prepping for our 99th summer! At the request of alum, we polled the association in the Facebook group to pick a date for a service weekend where alumnae could offer their time and talents to getting camp ready this summer. The votes were so close for both options, and we just couldn’t pick just one! So we are opening camp to CCAA members to humbly accept your assistance on BOTH:
May 27-30, 2022 (Memorial Day)
or
June 3-5, 2022
We kindly ask you to leave your children and pets at home for the purpose of dedicated, service-focused weekend! We hope to do more retreat style events again soon!
Participants will need to be fully vaccinated to participate.
Please sign up here to reserve your spot!
Please join us for the second in a new series of Cultural Conversations, a Camp Carysbrook Alumnae Association member exclusive! Be a part of developing awareness and dialogue regarding race with a focus on campers of color to help make Camp Carysbrook a more diverse and inclusive community, one of our organizational goals. You do not need to have attended the first discussion.
In this session hosted and facilitated by CCAA members Joyi Levata Better-Rice and Adrienne Anderson Stuckey, we will have a candid, ask-anything conversation about the unique experience of campers of color at Carysbrook. The goal of the conversation is to increase understanding of differences and to promote, develop, and enhance the emotional, social, and spiritual potential of each of us across cultural differences in the spirit of Camp Carysbrook.
To promote a lively, authentic discussion, please submit any questions or topics you would like to see covered using this Google form. This form is anonymous, but you will have the opportunity to provide your name if desired. Feel free to submit a question even if you are unable to attend the actual event.
CCAA Cultural Conversations: Building an Inclusive Community at Camp
Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 1pm
RSVP for the Zoom Link: carysbrookalumnae@gmail.com
Joyi Levata Better-Rice, Host
Middle School History Teacher Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools
DC Public Libraries Program Associate
Museum Programs Associate for Old Historic Alexandria VA
Former Site Manager for DC Public Schools Office of Out-of-School Time
Member: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
Attended Camp Carysbrook 1986-1991
Adrienne Anderson Stuckey, Facilitator
Assistant Professor of Inclusive & Special Education at Western Carolina University
Scholarly Research Activities include: Culturally Relevant Pedagogies and Racial Equity in Special Education
Short term Clinical Instructor, Georgia State University
Former Special Education High School Teacher
Attended Camp Carysbrook 1985-1988
The Camp Carysbrook Alumnae Associationâs annual winter fundraiser is here! The perfect cure for those of you who are camp sick as we head into the long, cold winter months while supporting the CCAA Scholarship Fund.
All of the proceeds will support the Scholarship Fund, which helps girls experience Carysbrook, regardless of economic, racial, geographic, religious, ethnic or social background.
Sale ends December 1, 2020 to ensure delivery for the holidays!
If youâre interested in international shipping, please contact Erika in the camp office.
Shop and support now:
* Please note: Different designs/products may need to be checked out separately due to different shipping sites from the vendor. We hope that the variety of products outweighs any inconvenience. We appreciate your generous support of the Scholarship Fund in this important year.
Please join us for the first in a new series of Cultural Conversations, a Camp Carysbrook Alumnae Association member exclusive!
In this session hosted and facilitated by CCAA members Joyi Levata Better-Rice and Adrienne Anderson Stuckey, we will have a candid, ask-anything conversation about What’s Different for Black Women in the world today. The goal of the conversation is to increase understanding of differences and to promote, develop, and enhance the emotional, social, and spiritual potential of each of us across cultural differences in the spirit of Camp Carysbrook.
To promote a lively, authentic discussion, please submit any questions or topics you would like to see covered using this Google form. This form is anonymous, but you will have the opportunity to provide your name if desired. Feel free to submit a question even if you are unable to attend the actual event.
CCAA Cultural Conversations:What’s Different for Black Women
Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 1pm
RSVP for the Zoom Link: carysbrookalumnae@gmail.com
Joyi Levata Better-Rice, Host
Middle School History Teacher Montgomery County Maryland Public Schools
DC Public Libraries Program Associate
Museum Programs Associate for Old Historic Alexandria VA
Former Site Manager for DC Public Schools Office of Out-of-School Time
Member: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
Attended Camp Carysbrook 1986-1991
Adrienne Anderson Stuckey, Facilitator
Assistant Professor of Inclusive & Special Education at Western Carolina University
Scholarly Research Activities include: Culturally Relevant Pedagogies and Racial Equity in Special Education
Short term Clinical Instructor, Georgia State University
Former Special Education High School Teacher
Attended Camp Carysbrook 1985-1988
The daffodils are in full bloom and the rhododendrons have purple buds teasing us that life is normal. Like you, we know it is not and the toughest part is that there is more that we donât know than what we do. We have reviewed the Stay-At-Home Order issued today by the Virginia Governor âin effect until June 10, 2020 unless amended or rescinded by further executive order.â At this time, unless otherwise ordered, we are planning to open according to plan on June 21, 2020. As you can imagine, we are as eager as you are for some certainty, however at this time we have been advised it would not be prudent to make any final decision on the summer otherwise.
In the unfortunate event that camp is ordered not to open, we will do our best to work with families to make any insurance claims that are applicable, to roll tuition over to the following year, or to pursue a refund as we try, in our flagship year of ownership, to do the right thing by our customers while staying in business to be there for you all for years to come.
We are working with the Montgomery County Health Department to better understand the specifics of how the order applies to Camp Carysbrook even though it does not, at this date, impact our opening start date. That said, we will continue to stay flexible, while adhering to any applicable governance, to finding a path to open camp this summer. We anticipate that we will review our plans again towards the end of April/beginning of May, however, as of today, we are proceeding according to the original plan.
So how do you plan for camp during these times? Well my response is how do you not? This year we are set to celebrate our 97th summer and it may be our most important yet. My grandmother started camp in the depths of the Great Depression and it remained, long after her camp days ended, as her most cherished memory of carefree days. We are all going to need a safe haven to transition out of our homes and back into a community of in-person interactions, unplugged. There is no kinder, gentler, less complicated place for that than Camp Carysbrook. And so Erika and I prepare for that moment when we can receive the socially distanced and technology wrought young women who count on the Carysbrook experience to help make life make sense. This is where our focus is right now because when this is all over, Camp Carysbrook will need to be there and ready to receive you.
We hope you all stay safe at home and in doing so know that you are doing your part to make this summer at camp possible. Our hearts go out to those in our community who are ill and we are grateful for the courage and dedication of all of the healthcare professionals among us keeping us safe and healthy. These are tough times for us all. Camp Carysbrook is here with the grace, if not all the answers, you need right now. Please do not hesitate to let us know how we can be a support to you as we continue to plan with cautious optimism that all your sacrifice and efforts will produce the results we need and we will be greeting you in the respite of the 24149 this summer.
As the situation with the COVID-19 virus, designated this week as a National Emergency, grows more serious, we at Camp Carysbrook continue to be vigilant and alert, and we encourage you all to do the same. Since the time of our first email to 2020 camper families, we have seen proactive measures beyond vigorous hand-washing recommendations in the form of event and even school cancellations to contain the virus spread. We want to reiterate that at this time, there has been no advisement that there will be any disruption to the summer that Erika and her incredible team are preparing. In fact, we have been seeing reports that an outdoor environment may be one of the healthiest places to be with plenty of fresh air and wide open spaces, as long as our health policies and procedures for communicable diseases like the Coronavirus, among others, are in place and properly executed.
That said, it may be wise to explore your protection options including insurance offered by CampDoc at the time of registration. If you are concerned about tuition refunds now that the January 1, 2020 refund policy deadline has passed, we recommend that you contact CampDoc if you have not already purchased their protection plan or if you have any questions regarding coverage. If you are concerned about travel insurance as well, we have been encouraged to recommend Travel Guard to protect your travel plans. We have been in contact with our insurance carrier and we have been advised that the best solution at this time is to make sure customers have their own insurance in order to be able to pursue a refund under the terms of that protection. As you may imagine, because we are a small business, there are a host of financial commitments even before the summer comes, and we are already accountable to service agreements and capital improvement projects for 2020 investing in this summer and beyond for our campers. Therefore, we will be relying on you to make arrangements for insurance including but not limited to any changes to your camperâs schedule including illness, presentation of symptoms at the camp screening, or exposure to the virus within the past two weeks prior to camp. Continuing to partner with you to keep our camp community healthy and to honor our financial commitments will enable us to persevere in these difficult and uncertain times and also continue to operate camp for years to come.
In the spirit of Camp Carysbrook, we would also like to offer a few fun suggestions to support you as you take the recommended measures of social distancing and limiting contact while children are out of school. This is a great time to get outside and go for a walk or a hike in a secluded or unpopulated area. Itâs also an incredibly valuable time to connect with those in your home, much like at camp, so ask them to teach you a card game they know, or encourage them to write a letter to someone they are excited to see at camp this summer, maybe even do a book club. Some campers, new and returning, may also find that following the camp schedule is a fun way to structure these days and a great opportunity for you to help them practice for camp including excellent personal hygiene, not only washing hands but also helping sort clean and dirty laundry, getting their living space ready for âinspectionâ, and even taking rest hour. Carysbrook campers have an excellent bag of tools for times like this, so get out the board games and spend these nights in, make your own evening program like skits, mini rock concert, sing-off, or some quality backyard stargazing. Camp skills are life skills!
We hope that these ideas and information will help you create memories and manage the anxiety of the unknown. We will continue to monitor the situation, consult with the CDC, the ACA, and the medical and health professionals advising us at Camp Carysbrook, and communicate to you the most up to date information. And we trust that everyone will do their part to listen to the experts and heed their advice to contain and minimize the impact of this virus well within the timeframe of the start of camp so that we can proceed with caution and hope that this will be yet another summer to remember for all the right reasons.
When you donate any amount to the tax-deductible ACA scholarship fund in the name of Camp Carysbrook, as sponsored by the CCAA, more girls are able to experience Carysbrook regardless of âeconomic, racial, geographic, religious, ethnic and socialâ background (American Camp Association). This fund has a broad impact in enriching not just that camper, but our community as a whole and helps fulfill one of our top organizational goals of promoting diversity at Camp Carysbrook. In our efforts to make Camp Carysbrook a genuine living, learning community, we are committed to creating greater real-world diversity in our camp culture, and the CCAA scholarship fund is integral in undertaking this endeavor.
In this season of gratitude there can be no greater gift than when those who have benefited from the privilege of the Carysbrook experience find the inspiration to contribute to the enduring, rich tapestry of the camp community by passing that on to someone else. Noblesse oblige, âthe inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privilegedâ (Oxford Dictionary), was at the heart of the Prestonsâ Carysbrook experience. They made it a badge of honor to lend a hand when you can. In partnership with the American Camp Association, the CCAA has built on that foundation, as well as on Toni Baughmanâs idea that âthere is a place at camp for every girl, bold, shy, athletic, musical …â and who, for circumstances beyond her control, might not have the life-altering opportunity of a #summer2remember.
The CCAA shines a lovely light on those legacies. âIt only takes a spark to get a fire going, and soon all those around, can warm up to its glowingâ (Camp Carysbrook Alma Mater). Letâs keep the fire going this #GivingTuesday
3500 Camp Carysbrook Road
Riner, VA 24149
540-382-1670
info@campcarysbrook.com
