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

by Pine Cove

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Updates for Summer 2024

  • We’ve added grade-based send-offs, or closing celebrations, at almost every camp! See below for details on whether your camp has an all-camper closing celebration, or qualifies for a grade-based send-off.
  • We are continuing our contactless automatic pre-registration in order to save your camper’s spot for the following year. Details are sent to your email.
  • Free bottles of water in the camp store! Stop by and hydrate!

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 first to see if you have a closing celebration or send-off for any of your campers. If so, plan to attend that first and plan to pick up the other camper(s) before or after.

Closing Celebrations

At closing celebrations, the whole camp gathers together 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.

Ranch

Join us at 9:45 am in the gym for a fifteen-minute celebration of our camp week!

Silverado

Join us at 9:00 am in the gym for an energy-filled, fifteen-minute celebration of our camp week!

Springs

Join us at 10:00 am in the dome for an energy-filled celebration of our camp week!

Rolling Pick Up Times

Pick-up is like drop-off. Parents can come and go within the pick-up window. Part of pick-up will include getting to hear your camper’s counselor share some of the character qualities they saw in them during the week.

Central Texas

  • Outback, Ridge: 9:00-10:30am

East Texas

  • Towers: 9-10:30am
  • Timbers: 8:30-10:00am
  • Shores: 10-11:30am

Send-Offs

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.

Outback Eighth Graders

Join us at 10:00 am on the wiffleball field for a ten-minute ceremony honoring our graduating 8th graders before they head to the Ridge next summer!

Ridge Seniors

Join us at 10:30 am for a ten-minute ceremony honoring our graduating seniors!

Shores Seniors

Join us at 10:30 am on the main field for a ten-minute ceremony honoring our graduating seniors!

Timbers Ninth Graders

Join us at 9:00 am in the gym for a ten-minute ceremony honoring our graduating 9th graders before they head to the Shores next summer!

Towers Fifth Graders

Join us at 9:30 am on the porch of the dining hall for a ten-minute ceremony honoring our graduating 5th graders before they head to the Ranch next summer!

Other Things to Remember

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. We cannot legally 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!


Posted Mar 1, 2022

Pine Cove

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