Base and Outpost Camp

2024 4-H Camp

Base Camp at Kamp Kenwood & Outpost Camp Lake Wissota

Registration: Feb. 20- April 28 via 4-H Online

Come and join us for Base and Outpost camp! Base camp will be hosted at Kamp Kenwood for grades 3-6. Outpost camp will be located at Lake Wissota Campgrounds for grades 7-9. We will be partnering up with Eau Claire and Dunn County again. Both camps will be from June 6-9, 2024. Youth that are in 9th-13th grade can sign up as camp counselors.

We are currently looking for camp counselors. If you or your youth have not been a camp counselor before and want to apply please click on the “New Counselor” link. If you or your youth have been a counselor in the past please click on the “Returning Counselor” link.

Camp counselor training will be a combination of Zoom and in person trainings. Below are the in person dates. (February dates will be overnight training):

  • Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 10-11, 2024 (Located at Beaver Creek, overnight)
  • Sunday, May 5, 2024 (Located at Kamp Kenwood)
  • Wednesday, June 5, 2024 (Located at Camp Kenwood)

Grades 3-6  Base Camp at Kamp Kenwood
Registration for Base Camp is LIVE! So, what’s going on during this Base Camp? The cook will be Melissa H. the owner of Fannies Supper Club. So, we will once again have really tasty food and probably eating better than what Seth usually makes himself. The activities at camp might include canoeing, kayaking, painting, sculpting, tie dying, baking, playing big base and volleyball explosion and much much more. Camper will be sleeping in cabins for three nights in a row! The cost of this camp will be an estimated cost of $115.

If you are signing up your youth for camp, please refer to 4-H online. The title for camp is “Eau Claire-Dunn-Clark Summer Camp”.

Grades 7-9 Outpost Camp at Lake Wissota

Registration for Outpost camp is LIVE! So, what’s going on during Outpost Camp? Outpost camp will be located at Lake Wissota Campground, and we have a group camp site reserved. During this camp campers and volunteers will be sleeping overnight in tents and eating food prepared by the campfire (Some meals will be provided and consumed at Kamp Kenwood as well.). Activities might include participating in an all-day canoeing trip along Lake Wissota, hiking around the several hundred acres of Lake Wissota State Park, learning how to use a compass, identifying tracks and scat and much more. Estimated cost of this camp is $115.

Chaperone Interest Form (Due May 12) 
We are happy to announce that 2024 camp planning has kicked off and we are looking for chaperones. (Camp Chaperones are the best!) To make camp happen we need a 1:10 adult to youth ratio. We are looking for 8 additional volunteers for base and 5 for outpost camp. Without enough adults to help supervise, camp can’t happen.

 
Camp Chaperones can be used in a variety of ways and for different lengths of time.  Please use this form to let us know your interest level in volunteering.  This form does not commit you to volunteering.  It will only be used to let the Educators know who might be interested.  Your county 4-H Educator will reach out to you with more information.
 
Camp Dates: June 6-9
Base Camp- Sleeping in Cabins
Outpost Camp- Sleeping in Tents (Talk to us if you want to bring a camper that could also be used as the nurses station)
 
Chaperone Interest Form: Click Here
 

Camp Counselor (Applications will open mid October 2024)
We are excited to be hiring camp counselors for Base Camp. To apply to be a camp counselor youth must be in 9-13th grade. If youth choose to participate in Outpost Camp you cannot be a Base Camp Counselor. Our max capacity for counselors is 20. We do encourage all youth that are eligible to apply.

New and Returning Counselor Application: Click Here (CLOSED 1/16/2024)

Life Guard (Seeking for Base and Outpost)
If you are interested in being a life guard and have your certifications please reach out to Seth Harrmann seth.harrmann@wisc.edu. If you have interest in becoming a certified lifeguard and want to help with camp. The camp will pay for your certification.

Camp Nurse (Seeking for Outpost)
If you are interested in being the camp nurse and have your certifications please reach out to Seth Harrmann seth.harrmann@wisc.edu.

Camp Cook (Filled)
Clark, Dunn, and Eau Claire County are looking for a camp cook. Camp this year will be taking place at Kamp Kenwood located in Chippewa Falls, from June 5-9. Camp size will be between 30-60 youth campers. To be qualified for this position we are asking that you know how to cook for bigger groups; church groups, schools, camps, restaurants. This position will be supervising meal clean up. The campers will be in charge of clean-up after each meal. Camp cook is not required to stay overnight. The cooking staff will be given a $500 stipend. If there is more than one paid kitchen staff person then the stipend will be split.

If you are interested in cooking for us please click: (Filled 04/19/2022)