A Look Back at Leaders-Walker Dulaney
Next up in our Look Back at Leaders series is Walker Dulaney. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be returning for his 7th summer to lead the Deerhorn Wolves. Thanks to his mom, Lee, for sharing her memories of Deerhorn and what it has meant to Walker. My son, Walker’s, time at Camp Deerhorn […]
A Look Back at Leaders-Bennett Blaustein
Every year, we ask four 16 year-old campers to lead our four camp teams, the Eagles, Bears, Bobcats, and Wolves. They are veteran campers who have shown themselves to be exemplary campers who live the Creed in their daily lives. And every spring, we ask the parents of those Leaders to write a blog looking […]
Camper Questions
This is the fourth and final in a series of blog posts geared toward 1st year campers. Check out the other three if you missed them. The first one shares some great tips for first-time parents. The second covers opening day, and the third talks about what to expect the first few days at Deerhorn. […]
Learning the Ropes
As the summer is drawing ever closer, we hope you are getting excited to spend a few weeks with us this summer. This blog is a continuation in our series geared toward our first-year campers. Make sure you didn’t miss the first two! It may seem a little overwhelming at first, but you will be […]
Your 1st Day at Deerhorn
This coming summer, we have more than 165 kids who will be coming to Camp Deerhorn for the first time. Even those who have attended Father Son camp with their dads will find that the schedule for regular sessions is quite different. We are super excited to welcome these new campers into the Deerhorn Family. […]
His First Year at Deerhorn
March is here and summer will be here before we know it! We will welcome home hundreds of campers who already know how awesome Deerhorn is. But we also have 165 campers who will be joining the Deerhorn Family, coming to camp for their first summer at Deerhorn on their own. We are sure they […]
The 2025 Deerhorn Leaders
Today is always our most favorite day and our least favorite day. We get to announce the 4 Leaders for the upcoming summer, but we also have to send emails to all the incredible kids who weren’t chosen. We’re a little later than usual on the announcement this year. Half of our directors live in […]
Dear Mama
Dear Mama, I have been a camp director for more than 20 years. And in those 20 years, I have written lots of blogs to help first year parents prepare their kids for camp. How to talk about homesickness, how to set them up for success, how to let them help pack…how to get your […]
The Deerhorn Magic
And just like that, the summer of 2024 has come to a close. Our final Father Son session of the summer concluded this morning, and by mid-afternoon camp was taken down and the docks sat quietly on the beach, to wait patiently for the summer of 2025. Being a camp director is Hard. But it’s […]
Fishing in the Sun
It was another gorgeous day at the ‘Horn for our final full day of this 2024 Deerhorn summer. The waterfront was a hopping place to be, not only for some great Rave launches and trips down the slide, sandcastles and kayaking, but also for our guided fishing day! We had four guides going out all […]