Serenity Ridge Farm & Equestrian Center: Wonderful trainer, facility, and horses! I started taking…read morelessons with Katie a few months ago (in early November) and I couldn't be happier. She's an excellent trainer--extremely knowledgeable, patient, explains things well, matched me with a dream horse, and she's funny! I'm an older rider and still a beginner, yet this is not an issue at her facility. She trains riders at all levels & I'm making good progress in a short time because she's great at what she does. She has an indoor arena so I've been able to ride through the winter, and the center is only about 3 miles from downtown Pullman. The horse she chose for me is extremely well-trained & responsive, and she's content and affectionate, which is very important to me. You can tell a lot about a facility and the trainer by how the horses behave. When you come into this stable, the horses here have their ears up & forward, and like to have their necks or faces scratched. It's clear that they are used to be handled kindly & competently, and that they like people. I've only had one other trainer, and she's at the L.A. Equestrian Center. I moved here from California in late August and was worried I wouldn't find anyone else like Jacq (Toadstool Farm), but Katie is fantastic! I feel very lucky to have found Serenity & that Katie is taking new students.

From the owner: Come ride at Serenity Ridge Farm. Fun farm experiences for…read moreall ages. Toddler Pony Time After School Program Jr High and High School Varsity Lettering grades 5-12 Riding Lessons Summer Camps Birthday Parties

Our family has spent the last seven or so summers here for family camp. Great activities, dedicated…read morestaff and wonderful memories made. We look forward to many more summers here!

This is a Seventh-Day Adventist run camp, and is available for large group rentals most times of…read morethe year (except for summer months, when camps are running). It is a little more of a resort than a camp, as lodges are multi-storied and there is little rustic feelings remaining along the waterfront (although a hike up the mountain will find satisfy a desire for solitude). But it is beautiful! Hayden Lake is surrounded by rich cabins, and Camp MiVoden is a more affordable vista for the average citizen. The waterfront is well-maintained and the beach volleyball court is a joy to play on. They also have horses and challenge ropes courses available. During the early summer months, MiVoden runs kids' camps, with options available for kids in 1st grade through high school. Family camps are also very popular (call it a resort more than a camp, if you dare). They happen in August. Visit http://www.mivoden.com/ for more info on dates. A lot of non-Adventist kids and families go here, and staff here have a positive attitude about life in general. Overall, it's a fun place to spend a summer week at! If in the summer, you'll most likely have gorgeous weather in a gorgeous location!

Well organized this fun place allows you to both create and glaze items. They have a large…read moreselection of classes, and have skilled and friendly teachers who walk you step by step in the creation of your master piece. We took our adult kids and we all had a blast creating mugs! They also have a monthly subscription which allows you 24/7 access to the studio perfect for creative downtime when you are bribed from studying! We will be back and just loved the entire experience!

I went in to the Moscow location to make a fused glass project and I went back about a month later…read moreas I'm from Seattle, and it was nowhere to be found. I was told they would look for it and asked me to come back later. So the piece has not been found. I suppose I should ask for a refund. At any rate, I probably will not go back. I will update this review if my problem is resolved. I paid a lot of money for that beautiful little piece of glass.

Yet another wonderful way to channel off kids' natural "hyperactivity!"…read more My seven-year-old Wild Child is currently attending the Skyhawks half-day baseball camp for 6-8 year-old kids. It's a program that Alameda Parks and Recreation Department coordinates with its Summer Program Aftercare at the park's local camp. This is the third Skyhawks camp he's attended. Last year he attended two "Minihawk" camps for 4-6 year olds which combine basketball, soccer, and baseball which is obviously suitable for the younger short attention spans. My now teen MySpace cadet also took the soccer and flag football Skyhawks Sports camps when he was younger in Piedmont. My then neighbor in Oakland's teen son, who was a Cal. Sports Camp counselor through UCB told me that the Skyhawks coaches actually trained his group and spoke very highly of them. The Skyhawks coaches do have to creatively problem-solve quite a bit. For example, when my MySpace cadet was in the flag football sports camp, he and one other boy were at least a foot taller then the rest of the same age group. MySpace cadet was slim, however, and the other guy was a big, well, let's just say like "Baby Huey." On the first day playing flag football, Baby Huey promptly fell-tackled (yes, even though it was "flag football") on the smallest camper putting that camper out of commission for the rest of the week. The coach creatively solved the "Baby Huey" issue by having my MySpace cadet "block" Baby Huey from falling on any other campers for the rest of the week! Workin' the offense and defense very well. It worked! All of these camps, in my experience, have excellent coaches who place emphasis on fun, safety and sportsmanship. Could you ask for much more from a summer camp? PS: for those Yelpers who either are too young, stoned, enebriated and/or too old and senile to remember what Baby Huey looked like: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/tiger-tracker/files/2008/04/babyhuey.jpg

Do not trust this company! They cancelled our sons Baseball Tots session three business days before…read moreit was suppose to start. Their excuse is that not enough people signed up. They should have still held the lessons regardless of number of attendees. This is extremely frustrating since we are both working parents with two toddlers and very busy and took lots of time to find these lessons. This company fails to understand that people need to sign up for classes ahead of time so this screwed us over since we could have signed our son up for swimming lessons instead but now it's too late. Thanks a lot for leaving us hanging and for the terrible treatment. We will NOT be trusting this company ever again.

My 10 year old son actually WANTED to get up early and go back to this camp every morning! I often…read morehave to coax him halfway through a camp. He loved it. We drove 45 minutes one way and it was worth it. The team was fantastic, professional and fun. My son called it "school but FUN!"...he had a great time learning! This family's heart is just beautiful...in their desire to help kids fall in love with science and their donations to Living Water. Wonderful experience.

My girls had a wonderful experience with this camp and have asked to go again this summer...so I…read moresigned them up! The themes are intriguing, my kids raved about the daily activities, the camper to counselor ratio was a major plus, and the staff were all caring and kind with the kids. This will be on our list for summers to come.

I went to a women's church retreat here this past weekend and I can't give enough credit to camp…read morelutherhaven!!!! The scenery is breathtaking and the staff is incredible! They were all very kind, and accommodating. Clean, great atmosphere, delicious food made by the kitchen staff, and God can be found in every square inch of the property!! Thank you Camp Lutherhaven for hosting the event that helped me in so many ways!!

From the owner: Lutherhaven Ministries: encounter creation, create community, commune with Christ…read more Featuring three amazing locations: Camp Lutherhaven on beautiful Lake Coeur d'Alene in North Idaho: year-round retreats and summer youth and family Bible camps. Shoshone Mountain Retreat on the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River in the Bitterroot Mountains on the Idaho-Montana border: 35 acres, surrounded by the 3.5 million-acre Idaho Panhandle National Forests! The Ranch at Shoshone Mountain Retreat/our new mountain dude ranch for youth and families, operating under a U.S. Forest Service Outfitters & Guides Permit. Lutherhaven Ministries facilitates summer kids Bible camps for all ages; year-round retreats; group rentals and custom camps and programs for community groups; outdoor education for public and private school children; youth servant camps and adventures programs.

This was 25 years ago, so things may have changed since then. I was 13, doing fairly typical…read more13-year-old things such as sneaking out, getting in trouble at school, and smoking marijuana. One morning I woke up around 4 AM to two strangers in my bedroom telling me they were taking me to a "camp." I had no idea what was going on, but ultimately ended up attending Explorations initial 30 day wilderness hiking experience - I was with a group of other "troubled teens "in the Arizona desert with nothing but a pack on my back that was heavier than me, not able to shower the entire time, and hiking miles and miles every day. After this, I lived with Penny & Lorne's (sp?) family for a few months with other teens that supposedly needed further "treatment," and was supposed to stay and begin school there. I saw and experienced many things while I was there, e.g. they made me sleep in a chicken coop as a form of discipline one night, one of the other girls snuck in marijuana that some of the teens smoked, they temporarily had us stay in a remote cabin that was filled with a cabinet of alcohol that some of us drank, people injured during the 30 day hike or trying to run away, Penny watching a show on HBO about prostitutes with some of the teens that lived with her (seems a bit inappropriate given the supposed therapeutic setting and ages of the teens), having to put phone calls with your parents on speaker or read their letters out loud, staff making you hang up if you said anything negative about the program, teens being isolated with nothing but a small bag of food and a tarp for nights in the snow, during which I personally came face-to-face with a coyote, wolf, or something similar that I literally thought was going to kill me in the middle of the night, etc. I did not personally witness any physical or sexual abuse like some other reviews mention thank God, although one of the female counselors was a masseuse, and gave one of the teen females a full body massage as a birthday present. I was also able to engage in a physical relationship with one of the male teens there for over a month until another teen told staff. I was ultimately kicked out literally in a 24 hour Period because I "needed more individual attention" than they could provide. They suddenly called me into their home office one night and asked if I would like to go home, I thought it was a joke at first, but sure enough I flew home the next day with my parents. I had no idea at the time why this happened. However, coincidentally, this was right after I disclosed to staff and the other teens that I was aware of a sexual relationship between two of the counselors, which was not allowed - one of the counselors left her journal out, and of course, being a "troubled teen "I read it and it detailed their sexual escapades quite explicitly. I also cursed out one of the staff members in front of Penny's young daughter, but given their clientele can only imagine this has happened tens or hundreds of times and would not be a reason for them to lose the significant amount of money that they would have made had I remained living and gone to school there. Overall, I did not have as bad of an experience as it sounds like some others did, however, I am now a psychiatric nurse practitioner in practice for 10 years, having gone to school for 10 years for this, and can say that there was absolutely no therapeutic Value in this non-recovery-oriented, for profit program. I'm sure there are high-quality wilderness therapy programs out there that can promote recovery, but in my opinion, as someone who attended this program and now as a mental health professional, this is not one of them.

This place is HORRIFIC!!! My parents sent me there over 25yrs ago when I was 14. Penny manipulated…read moremy parents to make me stay an extra month=EXTRA $$$. Which cost my parents over 40k!! Not to mention I was verbally and physically assaulted by one of their counselors on the hiking g trail. The dude tied me and my backpack up by a rope a dragged me across the trail and screaming in my face what a piece of shit I was and that I was no good of a person. That i would be lucky to come out of that place alive! 40yrs old and I still suffer from PTSD from that place!! Stay away!!! They are MONSTERS!!!

Great place to stay ! Spent few days on a hunting trip at Pines. Robin was great, and very…read morewelcoming. Felt like you were going to visit family, great hometown feel campground and really well kept . Spots seemed very clean and level which is always great

Stayed here for a week. Very nice experience. Staff is friendly. It was quiet and had peaceful…read moresurroundings. Clean. Nice trees. Pizza was available to order. Friday nights they had some great hamburgers available. Cafeteria was stocked with items that were yummy (Ice cream, snickerdoodles, cinnamon rolls, etc.). Well maintained camping spaces. Nice sized bathroom and shower. Wi-Fi available. I would definitely recommend for a nice stay.