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These summer camps don't specialize - they offer well-rounded fun in either day or residential camp settings including arts, crafts, swimming, sports, recreation and more.

Allegheny Camp
A girls’ residential summer camp offering specialty programs in Horseback Riding, Dance, Art and Swimming. While enrolled in these programs, campers also experience traditional camp activities such as canoeing, hiking, campfires, camp outs, games, and sports. Sessions are 2, 3, 4, and 6 weeks long. Located on the beautiful campus of the Grier School in central PA.

At Camp - Girl Scouts of Southwestern Pennsylvania
The Girl Scouts of Southwestern PA offer a variety of summer day programs as well as overnight, weekend, and week-long residential camps. See Web site for more details and to request a brochure. Available to non Girl Scouts with an extra fee.

Kids College - Penn State McKeesport
The Penn State McKeesport campus offers a variety of fun summer day camps in their "Kids College" program including engineering camps, rocket and kite-making camp, photography camp, cheerleading camp, magic of materials science camp and more.

Pittsburgh Parks & Recreation Day Camps
These camps will get your youngster age 3-17 out in the summer air and having fun. Full-day and half-day programs are available throughout the summer. Register for as long as six weeks, or as little as one day.

Twin Creeks at Camp Minnehaha
Spend your summer in a place of spectacular beauty, adventure and fun, set in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia. Two-week resident camp programs offer a huge variety of activities including land sports, water sports, arts & crafts, woodworking, theater, rocketry, water sports, horseback riding, fishing, mountain biking, ropes course, photography, Web site design and much, much more.

YMCA - Camp Fitch at Lake Erie
This traditional summer camp, for youths ages 6 - 18, is bursting with activities to fill your child's days including archery, horseback riding, climbing tower, crafts, swimming, sailing, water skiing, and more. Located at Camp Fitch on the shores of Lake Erie.

YMCA - Camp Kon-O-Kwee / Spencer
Located on 300 acres of fields and woodlands along the Connoquenessing Creek, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, Camp Kon-O-Kwee and the YMCA of Pittsburgh have been serving summer campers since 1926. A variety of one- and two-week residential summer camp programs are offered for children ages 7-15.

YMCA - Day Camps
Your little ones will have a blast at these day camps which run from 7:30AM - 5:45PM and cost less than many traditional day care programs! A variety of programs are available for ages 4-5, 6-10, 10-13, and 13 and up and are offered at YMCA branches across Allegheny County.

YMCA - East Communities
The Penn Hills YMCA sponsors a wide variety of summer camps in the Eastern communities of Pittsburgh including individual camps for soccer, tennis, science & nature, reading, pioneer camp, math, golf, fun bunch club, floor hockey, flag football, cheerleading basketball, baseball, adventure club and Camp Wanna Go.

YMCA Greensburg - Child Development Center Summer Camp
The Child Development Center holds a preschool summer camp for children, ages 3-5 years old. Developmentally appropriate activities include weekly themes with arts and crafts, swimming, gymnastics, gym, outdoor play, story time, field trips and more. This program is licensed through the Department of Public Welfare.

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