Northfield Area Family YMCA | Y Navigator Camp

Y Navigator Camp

Y Navigator Camp – Offered all summer long:

Explore and discover hiking, camping, gardens and scavenger hunts
Music, cooking, and weird science
Animals, bugs and barns
Physical fitness and fun with more games than you can imagine
Our world, the planet, endangered species and the truly weird
Curriculum based-Arts, character development, fitness, science, and service learning
Multiple trips weekly to include a weekly trip to an outdoor pool & the library

Y Navigator Camp Trip Schedule is a work in progress and will include visits to read’s Goat & Cheese Farm, Wolf Creek dairy Farm, Lorences Berry Fary, Fireside Orchard and Gardens, Open Hands Farm, STOGROW, Rice County Fair, Big Woods and a weekly trip the outdoor pool (just to name a few!). A complete schedule should be available in May.

This program is a flexible 3, 4 or 5 day a week program, available 6:45 am – 6:00 pm and is based at the National Guard Armory. Come one week or come all summer!

2010 Weeks and Weekly themes:

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Trips: We are already exploring the following trips for this summer’s Y Navigatgor program. A complete schedule will be made available online once trips are confirmed in May: Como Zoo, Big Woods, Fort Snelling, Mill City Museum, Rice and Dakota County Fairs, Caron, Albers and Memorial/Mill Parks, Carleton Arboretum, Greenvale, Sibley and Bridgewater nature preserves, Read’s Sheep & Cheese farm, STOGROW, Waterford Farm, Cathy Zemen’s Farm, Community Gardens, Just Food Co-op, Farmer’s Market, Fossil hunting along Dennison Hwy, visit a local chicken farm & horse ranch, a Lynx, Saints, Thunder and Twins game, swimming at the Northfield and Faribault pools, Nelson’s Apple Farm, River Bend and Maltby Nature Centers,

If you have suggestions for enrichment trips for our summer programs, please do not hesitate to contact Virginia Kaczmarek (507-645-0088).

2010 Y Navigators Camp – For kids entering grades Kindergarten – 5th grade
Cost: Members: $141 (5 days), $119 (4 days) or $95 (3 days a week)
Cost: Non-members: $148 (5 days), $126 (4 days) or $98 (3 days a week)
Times: 6:45 am – 6:00 pm, Programmed activities between 9:30 – 3:30
Monday – Friday: June 14th through September 3
Registration Fee: One time $20 per child registration fee (includes a field trip t-shirt which the Y keeps/washes each week and is used as added safety on field trips).
Location: Northfield National Guard Armory (519 Division Street)

Weekly fees include all field trip admissions, transportation, two snacks a day, before & after care and all program supplies.

Financial Scholarships Available.

Thanks to the generosity of our community and donors, the YMCA will not turn anyone away from its membership or programs because of an inability to pay. Please let us know if we may assist you in this way by calling Virginia directly or by completing a Financial Aid form located under the Membership tab above and submitted it with your Day Camp registration form.