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Meet the Full Time Team

Our full-time staff has changed a lot over the last year. Along with our Interim Executive Director, Jim Doremus, we have Sarah, Shawn, Trevor, and Jill. We’re super excited to have such an awesome team and look forward to welcoming a new CEO to Camp Takodah soon. We asked the team some questions about their […]

Summer 2023 Zeitgeist

The 107th summer at YMCA Camp Takodah was quite a success! Though we endured more rainy days than we would like to admit, had an unusual amount of turtles hatching at camp, and sustained a brief closure of the lake, the staff and campers had a memorable summer. From Opening Campfire to CT Cremony and […]

Fall 2023 Update

You might imagine camp is done for the season when session four ends. However, Camp Takodah has many things that go on in the off-season! Each fall we host Family Camp and Women’s Weekend as well as welcomed several weddings and other events to Takodah. We started off the fall season with our first-ever Labor […]

Women’s Weekend 2022

Mushrooms, pickles, and karaoke. What do they all have in common? Well, this year they were each part of a vast and unique list of class options offered at Women’s Weekend. A mushroom tour around Takodah’s 500+ acres, a visit to the annual Winchester Pickle Festival, singing Karaoke at the top of our lungs in the […]