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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 […]

Origins of The Titanic

The Moral of This Story is to Wear a Life Preserver: The Broadside Origins and Summer Camp Legacy of “The Titanic By Courtney Greer From when I was ten years old until I was in college, I spent my summers at a summer camp in Richmond, New Hampshire, first as a camper and later as […]