Pine Cove’s In-Depth Guide to Camper Pickup and Pre-Registration at Youth Camp

We hope you had a great week! We are excited to see you back for closing. We know you will be looking forward to seeing your camper and hearing about their experience.

Need directions? The camp address and GPS link are on the coming to camp page for your camp session.

If you have multiple campers at different camps, check the times, then plan to attend earliest event first. At the first event, let our staff know you have another camper to pick up at another camp and they’ll help speed you through.

Pick-Up Times

Pick-ups with closing celebrations have you park and gather together with the whole camp one last time before saying goodbye. It’s a short, high-energy celebration of how the week went and what God did. After closing, campers will split up into their cabins for short presentations from their counselor on different characters qualities they saw in them during the week. Then we’ll help load up your luggage and send you on your way home!

Send-offs are short ceremonies we hold for different grades at different camps to close out their last year at that camp property before they graduate to the next (or are done!). Other siblings at the same camp or other camps can be picked up before or after the send-off.

Pick-up, closing celebrations, and send-off times vary by camp, so check out your session’s coming to camp page to get the exact details and times. You can also pick-up details in the CampLife app under the MyWeek tab.

Other Things to Remember

You must have your pick-up code in order to pick up your camper. Codes are emailed to the primary account holder during the session and always available in the CampLife app. Someone else picking up? Just send them the code.

You’ll pick up your camper’s luggage, typically on arrival.

Check lost and found in case something somehow didn’t make it into your camper’s luggage.

Pick up your medication. It is illegal for us to mail prescription medication so we need you to pick up any leftover meds or empty containers.

Swing Through the Camp Store

Looking to stock up snacks and fun drinks for the car ride home? Come see us at the camp store! Or if your camper has had their eye on a piece of merchandise all week, you are welcome to go check that out with them and purchase it before you leave. Pine Cove’s camp stores exist to help camper’s remember their week and all that God did in their lives, and we have lots of cool items that can be that “Ebenezer” for them. 

Wondering to yourself, “Self, how do I collect any leftover money from my child’s camp account?” Great question! If they have more than $5 remaining, it will automatically be refunded to you. If the amount is less than $5, it will be donated to the McKenzie Scholarship Fund.

Simplified Automatic Pre-Registration

To keep things simple at pick-up and help families keep their spot, we’re guaranteeing another seriously fun summer by automatically pre-registering your camper for next summer. You will receive an email with more details before pick-up, which will also provide you an easy way to opt out. There will also be staff on property to answer any pre-registration questions you might have.

Thanks, and we’ll see you soon! Still have questions? Give us a call from 8:30am to 5:30pm CST, Monday through Friday, at 877-474-6326—we’d be happy to help!