Cedar Lodge is a small, friendly, family-owned horseback riding
camp in Michigan. It is mainly a girls camp, although there
was one cabin of boys when my daughter was there. I
appreciated the fact that campers can choose to attend any or
all of the 8 weeks since that made it easier to schedule with
another camp. However my daughter mentioned that having
campers come and go eadh week prevented her from getting
to know them as well as at a camp where all campers are
there for the same several weeks.
Some of the girls are very experienced riders, and some
even bring their own horses to camp and come to train for
competitions. But my daughter had never taken lessons
before. She did the "full riding program" (for an extremely
reasonable extra fee of $125/week), with riding lessons every
day and an overnight trail ride). Campers who don't do the
riding program still get to ride twice a week. The cost for two
weeks (which is how long my daughter stayed) is still only
$1000 which is quite inexpensive for a riding camp. The camp
has a variety of horses to suit girls of all different levels of
riding ability.
There were lots of all-camp games and other things to do
besides riding. All the staff seemed very friendly and I just felt
that it had a very warm, caring atmosphere.
It was a great camp, and the only reason that my
daughter went there only one year is that she has wanted to
explore some other interests at other summer camps. But of
the 5 different resident camps she has attended, I still feel
that Cedar Lodge was the friendliest.
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