Overview:
Weekend Programs

Our 2021 season offers a variety of weekend programs for families and individuals to unplug in Tawonga’s beautiful wilderness. We still have spots available in our New Jewish Families of Color Weekend! Learn more about Tawonga Family Camps below:

Family Camp Overview

COVID-19, Health & Safety

With the excellent success and rollout of vaccines, we are able to offer our more traditional Family Camps in 2021 with some modifications for COVID-19 safety like masks, outdoor dining and social distancing. Click here for our Famliy Camp FAQs page with the most up to date information.

Weekend Programs

Key Family Camp Highlights

• Meals – Families will enjoy delicious, nutritious Family Camp style meals in our outdoor dining pavilion! Each family will have their own table and lots of delicious options to enjoy.

• Housing & Bathrooms – Each family will have their own cabin and will be assigned to a bathroom and shower. If you are already in a pod with another family and would like to share a cabin, please email ashley@tawonga.org and let us know! 

• Activities – We will be offering all of our classic family camp activities including arts and crafts, challenge course, hiking, swimming, s’mores and more! We will celebrate Shabbat as a community (socially distanced) and experience joyous Judaism in nature. 

• Camp Tawonga Staff – You can count on the same high quality, loving and wonderful staff that Tawonga employs each year.  When staff are leading activities like arts and crafts and the challenge course, they will be masked as an extra precaution, and we will ask families to wear masks as well. All of our staff will be vaccinated.
• Day Groups and Childcare –We are thrilled to be able to offer morning childcare/day groups to kids ages three and older. The children will participate in activities outside and masked. For those with little ones under three, we will have some fun baby/toddler and parent activities to enjoy! We are sorry we are not able to provide childcare in the mornings for children under three. This is due to masking, distancing and staffing constraints due to COVID-19. Please note that children under three pay a reduced price.
• Safety – We ask families to follow our ⅔ rule which is to always have two of these three things: masking, distancing, and/or outdoors. So you can be outside and distant and unmasked or outside and close and masked or inside and distant and masked.
• Testing – Due to the Delta variant and breakthrough cases of COVID-19 in vaccinated individuals, we are requiring that everyone attending the weekend (regardless of vaccination status) show proof of a negative PCR test for COVID-19 taken within 72 hours of arriving at Camp.

Click here for our Family Camp FAQs with more detailed information about COVID policies, testing, pre-camp guidelines and more.

We are offering these 4-day, 3-night programs in August, September and early October. Click here to see dates and rates.

Specialized Weekends

Family Camp 1: Keshet LGBTQ Family Weekend
August 19 – 22, 2021

For over 20 years, Tawonga’s Keshet LGBTQ Weekend has offered our classic Family Camp experience for LGBTQ families and allies. In 2021, we will be modifying this weekend in accordance with our COVID-19 policies and practices, above. Learn more about Keshet here.

NEW! Jewish Families of Color Weekend
September 9 – 12, 2021

Together with community partner Project Shamash, we are thrilled to offer an affinity space just for families with at least one person of color in their household. This weekend will celebrate multiracial Jewish community and cultural richness by centering JOC+ and offering dynamic workshops, discussions and other programming led by JOC+ guest educators on topics of interest and relevance to you. Plus, all the classic Tawonga Family Camp offerings, like campfires with s’mores, a community shabbat celebration, talent show and more. Learn more about the weekend here. Questions? Email ashley@tawonga.org.

New! Women’s Weekend
September 17 – 19, 2021

Unplug and immerse yourself in a community of supportive, amazing women – spanning the generations – for a deeply inspiring, joyful experience in Tawonga’s beautiful wilderness. Through morning yoga, hikes in Yosemite, expert-led workshops, a soulful Shabbat celebration and more, this women’s weekend will help you reflect and recharge. For anyone 21 and older and woman-identifying. This will be a kid-free weekend with exceptions made for breastfeeding infants. Learn more here.

And check out our Family Camp Packing List before you go!

Work A Weekend Program

Do you have experience with kids? Are you available and interested in working weekend programs, like Families at Camp, for Tawonga? Please click here to be notified of upcoming opportunities.