Our granddaughter has been to Camp Harlow several years in a row and always has a wonderful experience! She'll be back again this summer!

My son has attended middle school camp at Camp Harlow for the past two years and will be attending the high school camp this summer. Each stay has been unique and rewarding, and my son has made lifetime memories and very likely lifetime friends. We attended Catholic Church when my son was little, and my son has been to catechism and received his first communion. That said, he wasn't thrilled about attending a Christian camp so upon picking him up after his first camp, I jokingly asked whether he had accepted Jesus Christ as his lord and savior. He looked me in the eye and said that he had. He said that he had had an experience and decided he wanted god in his life. He assured me that no one had forced him, or coerced him, that it had happened organically for him and that it was a very good experience. The Christian part aside, the camp offers everything from swimming, to horseback riding to go carts. The kids are kept busy, well fed, and well cared for. The one time my son got into trouble during camp we felt the staff handled everything perfectly, immediately notifying us of the situation and how they planned to proceed. Just like anything else, it's not for everyone but for us, it has been awesome. read more

Camp Harlow has a wonderful staff. Their facilities are amazing, second to none. They take great care to ensure that the campers are safe and have the best experience possible. read more

DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS HERE!!!!! I am an ex-CIT, I can tell you from experience that this camp is absolute trash. Staff are overworked and the "community spirit" is so lacking at a Christian camp that it is disgraceful to humankind. The program director is non-inclusive and qualified to work with kids. I thoroughly regret ever even trying to volunteer at this establishment. Some of the things they do a horrendous job of behind the scenes: not organized, they don't schedule counselors until the very last minute and have to scramble if virtually anything goes off plan, the campus is simply not big enough to accommodate as many campers as they still have despite the disgusting conditions. The directors advertise this camp as: Christian, but not in your face about it. This is completely false, many counselors told children that they would burn in hell if they did not drink the Jesus kool-aid. They have fired seven SENIOR COUNSELORS only because of the reason that they were part of the LGBTQIA+ community, I think it is safe to say that they are homophobic and non-inclusive of anything less of a Christian. The water wars are something that happen during middle and high school camp, they are so unsafe it' hilarious that they get away with it. There is a slip and slide made out of tarps. While I was a volunteer at camp there were at least 10 skinned knees and 4 cuts from the sides of the tarp. There was so much misconduct that was ignored by the leadership who's job is to deal with difficult kids like bullies and kids with special needs. They do not do a good job of this. These are most of the problems that I would like Harlow to fix. If they don't fix any of this then I would recommend to absolutely never send your kids here for camp or your teens for counseling. read more

My son attended Camp Harlow at the recommendation of a friend whose child was also going. At the time I asked, "isn't that a religious camp?" To which she responded "yes, but it's not in your face at all." Fast forward to day two when my son is saying he is being told he is going to burn in hell because he isn't drinking the Jesus cool aide. So, yes, tons of activities but only for the pious children of Eugene. Hard pass. read more

My son went to Camp Harlow for the first time this past summer. There they make a huge deal of a small scars he got on one of his hands. Nevertheless, Camp Harlow staff did nothing after my son son got bully by another kid in consecutive days. Camp Harlow didn't communicate with me or my husband about the incident and neither to the family of the bully. I contacted them multiple time to tell them about the incident. First time the staff who answer my phone call couldn't talk to me because they were busy with another group of kid the fallowing week after my son went to Camp Harlow. Promise to call back and didn't happen. Second time, the staff I talked to was very kind, and recommended to request that my kid will no be place with the bully on the future, and tell me to find out the name of the bully. Which is their responsibility. I send an email to the program director who has not contact us at all. read more

I had great memories of Camp Harlow as a kid back in the 1990's. So we tried it back out now as a parent 25 years later. Although the facility is still great, it seems they have grown way to big for the capacity they can actually support. The kids had less than 12 minutes per day in the pool because the next group needed to be moved in. All the activities seemed rush because they literally had hundreds of children they were moving from activity to activity. The camp staff was nice, but it seemed like the experience is now gone as it is they have so many kids on campus now. read more

My son has been going to Camp Harlow every summer for the last three years and we have signed him up again. We are big fans and this year our youngest attends for the first time. Highly recommend it! read more

Campus compact student leadership conference. Amazing property. Pools, putt putt, basketball. Fun

Camp Harlow was a wonderful experience for my nieces- they both had fantastic weeks with their cabin and counselors! They were able to do the zipline, horses, bumper boats, pool, and so many games and crafts beyond that- We will definitely be sending them again- the counselors genuinely care about the children in their care, and every staff member we met was kind and friendly! read more

AVOID! Bad dicipline policy where bullies get away with anything. The first day my son attended this camp a boy from a different cabin, peed in his water bottle. Such disgusting behavior should be immediate grounds for dismissal from camp. Yet, this boy continued to attend the entire week and my son went without a water bottle the entire week. In my son's cabin two boys, who asked to be together, proceeded to call all the other cabin mates names, bully all the boys and take their things. The Cabin Counselors told me they were spoken to and it eventually stopped, but my son told me these same boys left the camp premises overnight without permission. In addition, every night when it was lights out and the Camp Counselors would tell them to stop talking; they would respond with some remark like, "Well, that sucks for you because we are not ready to go to sleep." And the talking would continue. At the very least they could have separated these boys. The Cabin Counselors did the best they could. They should not be made to go through that as volunteers. Those boys should have been removed from camp and counselors should not be dealing with boys that behave in that manner. I would NEVER recommend to any of my friends that their teenagers volunteer as counselors at Camp Harlow or that their children attend considering their discipline policy. Lastly, I did send Camp Harlow a letter listing all the incidents that occured (pretty much what you see above and a few more details), and they never responded to me by mail or telephone. Obviously, they do not care and tolerate this type of behavior routinely. This must be why none of these boys were expelled from the camp early. As an alternative, I suggest Whole Earth Nature School. They have excellent summer camps with great supervision and many summer programs to pick from. My son attended camp here and had excellent experiences. read more

My son has been going since the third grade. He is a freshman in high school now and still enjoys it very much. The opportunity to make friends from all over, to worship the Lord and grow spiritually have been instrumental in his Christian walk. As parents were so pleased he wants to go back every year. read more