Every week of camp is different, tailored to the group of kids we have that week. This video is from our last week of camp in 2023 and is a pretty good example of some of the fun your camper will have at Camp Wingra.

​Calling all paddlers ready to discover Madison from the water! This camp offers an exciting week of paddling adventures around the city. Campers will learn essential skills like packing for a canoe trip, loading boats onto trailers, mastering portaging, and performing T-rescues. Designed for seasoned paddlers, this camp is ideal for those looking to enjoy both day trips and longer paddling excursions. (Perfect for campers who have already participated in Canoe, Kayak, SUP, or Shipwrecked programs.)

Get ready to unleash your creativity! This camp is brimming with exciting hands-on activities, from nature crafts to fun on the water with our extensive fleet of watercraft. Dive into a week of creativity, exploration, and swimming as you craft, paddle, and paint your way through unforgettable experiences. 

Welcome paddlers, explorers, and budding scientists! If you like to collect water specimens, find out what is in the water, turn logs over to find grubs, dissect owl pellets, build shelters, and paddle to cool places like Pheasant Branch Conservancy- then come on aboard!  This camp not only lets campers have a blast on the water, it builds paddling skills, and includes hands-on learning activities where campers balance outdoor learning with plenty of fun!

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What do you do if you find yourself SHIPWRECKED? Campers will have fun learning survival skills, capsizing canoes, performing T-rescues, and cooking over a fire. This camp will have campers making rafts, reading & creating maps, and “surviving” through fun team-building activities. Campers will get to paddle to many different Madison destinations.

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This is Camp Wingra’s signature camp, including everything you love about Camp Wingra in one week of fun! Learn to navigate different boats; master tricks on a stand-up paddleboard, reel in bluegills, bass, or Oscar the Bull Shark, and display your courage in capture the flag! This smorgasbord of activities includes learning paddling strokes and fishing techniques. At Fish Paddle Play you can do it all and more. Grab your friends and join us!

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Bluegills, Sunfish, Crappies and more! This is our intro fishing camp that allows campers to spend a week of fishing. This camp is perfect for campers hoping to catch their first fish, learning to cast, and practicing taking their fish off the hook.  

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Time to fish!  Cast under that log, pick the right lure, and begin to understand the impact that weather has on the fish.  This is for the camper who is ready to take their fishing skills to the next level and wants to learn more about how to fish with lures and learn tips and techniques to become a serious angler.  Campers should be comfortable paddling a canoe, have prior fishing experience, and have the desire to spend most of the week fishing.

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Calling all anglers who are ready to take their skills to the next level. This camp will explore different fishing spots, techniques, and lures and get your camper comfortable fishing out of a boat. This is the perfect camp for campers who love to fish but may not yet have the skills to fish independently. 

This is the perfect camp to take after Go-Fish and is encouraged to be taken before Intermediate Fishing.

This camp will target fishing for bass as well as northern, walleye, and ... the elusive muskellunge. This camp is all about building your skills. It takes more than a line in the water to catch the big ones. This camp is for experienced anglers only, they must want to fish all day and never stop until they must!  This camp may require a drop-off or pick-up at a couple of different locations around Madison.

Note: If your camper hasn't already taken Intermediate Fishing, please reach out to see if this is a good fit for your camper.

Learning correct paddle strokes, playing paddle-sponge-tag, mastering a buoy turn on a SUP, and navigating an obstacle course will be part of the week’s fun as you expand on your paddling knowledge in kayaks, canoes, and SUP’s (Stand Up Paddle Boards). In this camp, campers will be paddling to different paddle destinations in Madison.

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We've got swashbuckling and paddling fun at this exciting camp for aspiring buccaneers who love being on the water! Band together with fellow pirates, and search for treasures as you learn paddling and navigational skills. Pirate arts and crafts and role-playing will help campers experience a pirate’s life on the high seas! We seek only the most fearsome scallywags to join our pirate crew! The half-day camp (AM/PM) is designed to only be taken for AM or PM, not both.

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Paddle, fish, yoga, create, explore, and more! This unique camp will allow you to 'Do it All'.  Staff work with the campers to create a week that connects campers with other girls while developing their paddling and fishing skills. A lot of fun activities like breakfast on the lake await anyone lucky enough to be in this camp.  

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