A Look Back at Leaders-Teddy Koehl

Next up in our Look Back at Leaders series, we would like to introduce the 2022 Leader of the Iroquois, Teddy Koehl. Let’s hear what his parents have to say about his 8 years at Deerhorn! Teddy began attending Deerhorn when he was seven years old–jumping out of the car with his older brother and […]


A Look Back at Leaders-Vincent Mangat

Every year we ask the parents of our camp Leaders to write guest blog about their son’s years at Deerhorn. It is always so fun for us to look back and watch them grow from tiny kids into these amazing young men we know today. Our first in our Look Back series is Vincent Mangat. […]


Feeling Everything

Every fall, I write a blog reflecting on the previous summer at Deerhorn. It always takes me awhile to write that blog, to gather my thoughts after a very busy summer lived at a breakneck pace. You would think that, after a summer of waking up really early 7 days a week for three months, […]


A Look Back at Leaders-Jack Rhyner

Our final blog in our “Look Back at Leaders” series features Jack Rhyner, co-Leader of the 2021 Apache. This will be Jack’s 7th year at Deerhorn. Many thanks to his dad for sharing his memories of those early years at Father Son camp with Jack! It didn’t happen right away. It took a little while, […]


A Look Back at Leaders-Owen Flom

Next up in our “Look Back at Leaders” series features Owen Flom. This will be Owen’s 8th year at Deerhorn, and he will be co-leading the Chippewa this summer. Let’s see what his mom has to say about his years at camp! Owen’s first trip to Camp Deerhorn was when he was just 6 months […]


A Look Back at Leaders-Nate Affolter

Next up in our Look Back series is Nate Affolter, co-Leader of the 2021 Navajo. This is his 6th summer at Deerhorn and he hails from Chicago, IL. Here’s what his parents have to say about his years at Deerhorn. Summer 2015.  We packed up the car and took a family trip to Rhinelander, Wisconsin […]


2021 Leader Update

We shared the news yesterday on our social media, but we wanted to update our blog as well. We’ve had a change to our 2021 Leader crew. Sadly, Jack Pavia is unable to join us this summer at Deerhorn to co-lead the Apache with Charlie Halpin. We will really  miss him at camp this summer, […]


His First Year at Deerhorn

We can’t it’s almost May! It won’t be long before Deerhorn will open its doors again to  hundreds of excited campers, many of them returning for another unbelievable summer of fun.  But we also have 150 campers who will be joining the Deerhorn Family, coming to camp for their first summer at Deerhorn on their […]


Che’s Lounge

As if 2020 was not already hard enough, last summer the Deerhorn Family lost someone who was near and dear to our hearts. Chetan Phadnis was someone who radiated kindness. Our staff looked up to him, he was friends with all the dads, and he was endlessly supportive of the kids around him at Father […]


Who They Are

This is Katniss. We adopted Katniss in the spring of 2015. She came to us from a rescue, as had Rooster several years before. But while Rooster was gregarious and social from the very beginning, Katniss was a different kind of dog. She was incredibly fearful, and spent the first month at our house hiding […]