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Steve & Kate’s Camp Voted Best Of Marin

Steve & Kate’s Camp was voted Best Summer Day Camp of Marin for 2010 and 2011 in the Pacific Sun reader’s poll. Here’s the list for 2010 and here’s the list for 2011.

Steve and Kate Susskind must know what they’re doing – they’ve been running Steve and Kate’s Camp for 30 years in Marin – although it all sounds as chaotic as a Wonderland tea party. Their philosophy: Let kids decide. Happy campers, age 4 to 12, are given a choice of activities that include things such as high-def filmmaking, electric car racing, sewing, knitting, sculpture, bungee jumping, soccer, etc. – and the kid decides which activity and how long to do it. A camper can do whatever for as long as he or she likes. “It’s structure,” Steve says, “just a different structure.” “We want to make sure we’re doing what the kids want.” Kate says. “We conform to them, not the other way around.” Food at the camp is heavy on the organic, fresh and locally grown, and is served family-style with the cafe open all day. Again, kids choose. Parents can choose, too – when and how often to bring their children – from one day to an entire summer. Unused days are automatically refunded. And somehow it just all works.

Steve & Kate’s Camp Voted Best In Contra Costa County

The readers of Parents Press voted Steve & Kate’s Camp best summer camp for 2011 in Contra Costa county.

Children can channel their creativity in this summer camp that offers campers, age 4–12, activities in filmmaking, electric car racing, sewing, knitting, sculpture, bungee jumping and soccer. Food at the camp is organic, fresh and locally grown and is served family-style with the cafe open all day. Flexibility is emphasized so campers can attend for a day, a week or an entire summer, and they can attend activities at different locations. With a wide range of activities, young campers are encouraged to pursue their own individual interests and passions so they create their own unique camp experience.

Steve & Kate’s Camp Featured In IJ Camp Guide

In 2008, the Marin Independent Journal camp guide featured an article about our “excellent culinary adventure” and how we have “taken camp food a long way from bug juice, bologna sandwiches and peanut butter and jelly smeared on white bread so gluey you can bounce it off a redwood.” Read the article here.

For the first time since the day camp was founded 28 years ago, the cooking’s going gourmet as well as organic.

Steve & Kate’s Camp In The San Francisco Chronicle

Leah Garchik mentions Steve and Kate’s in her Thursday column. Read the column here.

Thanks to Nanook of the North Bay for the brochure for Steve and Kate’s Camp, a Marin County day camp that refers to staff members who help kids choose their activities and make friends as Camp Concierges. The camp’s list of activities includes “Limo Rides,” and the arts and crafts program includes knitting “using real wood and bamboo needles.” Furthermore, lunch comes from Whole Foods and “drink service includes milk, 100 percent juice and bottled water.

Steve & Kate’s Camp In Apple’s Hot News

Steve and Kate’s uses computers throughout the camp. They increase efficiency and security for our staff. For campers, they open up the worlds of digital photography, filmmaking, music recording, and podcasting. Apple found out about us and wrote an article on our use of their technology for the “Hot News” section of their web site. Read the article.

If kids ruled the world, it might look something like Steve and Kate’s Camp in Mill Valley, California.

Steve & Kate’s Camp On The Morning Show at KPFA

Steve and Kate joined Andrea and Opal on The Morning Show at KPFA to talk about Steve and Kate’s Camp. If you would like to listen to them online, click on the link below and drag the slider on the quicktime player to the last quarter of the grey bar. Listen here.

Steve & Kate’s Camp On local television show

Steve and Kate’s Camp was featured on a local television show, The View from the Bay, in 2008.