A Day at Camp
Every day at Camp Loughridge is packed full of a summer’s worth of excitement! Every day’s activities are different for your campers and their tribes! One day might involve archery, hiking, and crafts while another day will find you camper on a challenge course, and singing in Chapel! In order to help decipher your camper’s rapid-fire summary of their day as they climb into your car, here is a quick primer on Loughridge Lingo!
Tribe Table
A special picnic table designated for each tribe. These tables serve as the tribes’ home base and stores backpacks and arts & crafts when campers do not need them. It is also where the morning starts.
Morning Pow-wow
A quick ceremony that occurs right after your camper is dropped off. It consists of tribe attendance and cheers, skits, songs, and each tribe’s morning schedule read aloud.
Period
Every tribe has six of these each day. Three in the morning and three in the afternoon. These periods consists of 14 activities: field, K-Dome, nature, canoes, arts and crafts, Chapel, special, swimming, Bible Study, archery, swing, incline log, dance, and low-challenge.
K-Dome
The covered basketball court outside the drop-off circle.
Chapel
Our 200 seat, A-frame Chapel provides an opportunity for campers to sing worship songs and listen to guest speakers from the Tulsa area.
Bible Study
Short devotionals, crafts, and discussions about God, Jesus, and the summer's theme, "Our Enduring Hope," lead by your child’s counselors.
Swing
One of Camp Loughridge’s most popular activities. It is a 30 foot tall swing on which your child is harnessed in and determines how high they want to go!
Incline Log
A log that starts 20 feet in the air and then proceeds to rise to 25 feet. While harnessed in, your camper is challenged to face the heights and walk across it!
Low Challenge
Team building games.
Specialists
These staffers are separate from counselors. They are independent of direct tribe responsibilities and rotate between the activities to teach campers and monitor safety. They are also the people who retrieve your camper from the car in the morning and return them in the afternoon.
Seconds
More food!
Spray Deck
A phenomenally fun area at the pool! Pipes rise out of ground and spray and dump water onto those below! Water even shoots up from within the concrete over campers’ heads.
High dive
The 3 meter board that has seen countless fearless kids fly through the air into the water.
Head Counselors
This special corps is also separate from individual tribe duties. These 5 staffers are entrusted with program development, oversight, and execution. They are the behind the scene workers who make sure that your camper is never sitting around with nothing to do.
TCC
Stands for the Temple Conference Center. This building is where we serve lunch for Summer Day Camp!
Pamper Pole
A high-ropes element just for the Big Kids (Adventure and TeenXtreme). Participants climb 35 feet atop a telephone pole and then jump off and try to catch a handkerchief blowing in the wind! Don’t worry; they are harnessed in the whole time!
The Lodge
This is our newly renovated equivalent of the TCC for Adventure Camp and TeenXtreme. This is our first year to use the building simultaneously with the TCC. It is base camp for the older camper programs.
Parthenia Campus
The “old” side of Camp that just got a facelift! This side of camp was originally a WPA project in the thirties. For the first twenty years, it was a YWCA camp facility. Then First Presbyterian, Tulsa bought it before Camp Loughridge became its own not-for-profit organization independent of First Presbyterian.
The HUB
Office structure for head counselors and the nurse. It is located in the large two-door trailer adjacent to the drop-off circle.Afternoon Pow-wowThe end-of-the-day ceremony right before campers are released to their cars. This time period includes announcements, closing, skits, and dancing!
Daily Schedule
| 9:00-9:20 | Camper Drop-Off
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| 9:20-9:40 | Morning Pow-Wow
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| 9:45-10:35 | Period 1
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| 10:40-11:30 | Period 2
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| 11:35-12:25 | Period 3
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| 12:30-1:25 | Hot Lunch (with seconds!)
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| 1:30-2:25 | Period *4
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| 2:30-3:25 | Period 5
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| 3:30-4:25 | Period 6
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| 4:25-4:35 | Afternoon Pow-Wow
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| 4:35-4:50 | Camper Pick-Up
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*An afternoon snack is provided to your camper between 4th and 5th periods.