Mini S’More

Younger and first-time campers can experience the excitement of summer at Jumonville with lots of games and activities packed into a three-and-a-half-day program! Mini campers will make new friends, enjoy the playground, and get a great taste of all the excitement that a week at Jumonville can offer! Test your skills at archery, compete with…

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Senior High Challenge

Senior High Challenge Join us for our most advanced adventure program of the summer! Led by experienced and passionate climbers, the week combines rock climbing, white water rafting, and more! The highlight of the week is our climbing trip to Seneca Rocks, WV! Previous climbing experience is preferred but not required. Space is limited so sign…

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Mini Adventure

Mini Adv

Younger and first-time campers can experience the excitement of summer at Jumonville with lots of games and activities packed into a three-and-a-half-day program! Mini campers will make new friends, enjoy the playground, and get a great taste of all the excitement that a week at Jumonville can offer! Test your skills at archery, compete with…

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Jr. High Challenge

Adventure Corless

Jr. High Challenge This adventure camp allows you to challenge yourself with both on and off site activities at Jumonville. On-site activities include low & high ropes courses, the Adventure center, King Swing, and mountainboards. Off-site activities includes a camping trip to nearby Ohiopyle, white water rafting the Lower Yough, and rock climbing. Join us…

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Playground

Playground

Our playground gets good use in the summer camping program and is also available for your retreat group, weather permitting. It is popular with “Kids of all ages.” The playground was rebuilt several years ago after raising funds to replace the old wooden playground with a newer, safer, and more accessible playground.

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Fit Trail

Jumonville received a very generous grant in 2015 from the Fayette County Tourism Grant Program to install a 10 station fit trail on the hiking trails in the Green Cathedral area of our campus. We are very grateful for their support and anxious to get more guests out and about exploring our trails and getting fit…

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Duckies

duckie

Duckies (or inflatable kayaks) are used on the Middle Youghiogheny River as part of the peddle paddle trips. We start at Ohiopyle State Park and bike along the bike trail for about 10 miles.

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Adventure Center Bouldering Room

Adventure Center Bouldering Room

The middle room in the Ben Cromer Adventure Center measures 35′ x 40′ and has 12 foot high side walls. There are climbing walls on all four walls with varying angles and levels of difficulty. These “bouldering” walls are used to teach the basics of rock climbing and can easily handle groups of 30 or…

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Adventure Center Back Room

Adventure Center Back Room

Our back room of the Ben Cromer Adventure Center measures 35′ x 40′ and has 24 foot high side walls. There are two large 10″ square garage doors that can be rolled up to provide some great ventilation in the warmer months. Twenty-five different ropes are currently set up for climbing with varying angles and levels…

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Belay Certification

Belay certification

Belaying refers to a variety of techniques climbers use to exert friction on a climbing rope so that a falling climber does not fall very far. A climbing partner typically takes up the slack in the rope while the climber continues to climb. The partner then applies friction at the other end of the rope to…

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