Programs For Teens Visit www.hiddenvalleyteens.com What do I do when I'm too old to be a camper? We hear this question often and now have an answer for you... An array of dynamic month-long programs providing additional adventure, friendship, and enrichment to older campers within the HVC family. And they are all based on our 300-acre property. Because of the intimate nature of these programs they are generally recommended for HVC campers, family members, and friends. Please call us for additional information. AWACs Hidden Valley's AWACs are Awaiting Work As Counselors. These teens apprentice the experienced professional counseling staff who work with HVC's youngest campers (ages 8-10). AWACs gain counseling and teaching skills and become respected and loved big brothers and sisters to their campers. The five to eight AWACs each month are involved in daily training sessions, assist in two classes, and take one or two classes as well. In order to become an AWAC, one must be a former camper and complete the same selective application and interview process as all HVC staff. Hidden Valley Alive Create your own artists colony right here in the camp's 150-year-old restored farm cottage, Deer Meadows. Hidden Valley Alive provides in-depth opportunities to explore the visual arts through pottery, stained glass, photography, and other medium. Additionally, we design group projects ranging from gallery installations to stage productions. We also visit galleries and studios to learn about the lives of local artists. Trips to Shakespeare plays, musical productions, and the Dance Festival at Bates College round out the program. Hidden Valley Adventures The complete Maine outdoor experience includes a wilderness canoe trip, rock climbing and mountain biking in Acadia National Park, whitewater rafting on the Kennebec River, sea kayaking, and a trip to Quebec City. Our adventurers are based in a log cabin on the summit of Hidden Valley's Ledge Mountain, overlooking our lake. From this beautiful site, campers experience exciting and challenging individual and group adventures. Imagine a month to improve your leadership skills and use them to make important contributions to your community. Hidden Valley Community embraces a simple outdoor life wherein a small group of campers learns self sufficiency and makes a home-away-from-home at a 17 acre, restored farm in our valley. Participants develop skills in team building, problem solving and communication. Then they venture into the larger community... The camp, where HV Community members create and lead programs for younger campers, and the rural area nearby where the group teaches at art centers, helps elderly farmers and maintains hiking trails. Join us and learn to take Hidden Valley’s values - those of sharing, helping one another, and striving for one’s personal best - out into the larger community. “The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.” ~ Mark Twain "I don't know what I want to do with my life, but I do know that whatever it is, I want it to feel like I do when I'm at HVC." - Older Camper Click here to find out more about our programs for teens.