Woodward Camp

Woodward Camp is a sleep away summer camp that was founded in 1970 in central Pennsylvania and has become world renowned for its action sports, gymnastics, and cheer programming. Providing first class facilities, Olympic medalists, and top action sports professionals, Woodward offers a unique summer experience attracting campers from all over the world.

Named after a small town 35 minutes east of State College, PA, Woodward started out as a Gymnastics camp bringing in olympic medalists, college coaches and providing expert training immersed within a summer camp experience. When the US decided to boycott the 1980 Olympic games Woodward Camp expanded its camp programing to include BMX racing. The BMX program quickly grew and the facilities were expanded to include ramps. The word of an action sports wonderland in central Pennsylvania traveled quick and skateboarders and aggressive inline skaters were drawn to Woodward as action sports hit the main stream with the blow up of the X-Games. Using its Gymnastics knowledge by including foam pits and resi landings, Woodward offers first class facilities for action sports that has exponentially increased the learning curve of the world's top skateboarding and BMX athletes for years.

In December 2008, Copper Mountain (Colorado) opened the first installment of Woodward at Copper with the Cage, a retail store focused on action sports with such features as an indoor skate bowl and the Woodward All Ages Lounge. Woodward at Copper and offers winter camp days and week-long residential summer camps, including dry land as well as mountain facilities and training areas.

Woodward opened its first international camp "Woodward Beijing" located in Beijing, China in the summer of 2010.

FUEL TV Presents Camp Woodward is a show about Woodward campers and their experience at the Pennsylvania camp. FUEL TV and Woodward partnered to create the show in 2007 and the show's fourth season began airing in February 2011.

In July of 2011 Woodward broke ground on its newest facility, Woodward Tahoe, at Boreal Mountain Resort just outside of Truckee, California. Woodward Tahoe officially opened on June 9th, 2011 for its inaugural summer camp season with a Grand Opening celebration that attracted names like Tony Hawk, Ryan Nyquist, Mike Vallely, Tanner Hall, Henriq Harlaut, Curren Caples, Anthony & Ronnie Napolatin, Mike "Rooftop" Escamila, Chas Guldemond, Hannah Teter and more. Woodward Tahoe offers nine weeks of summer camp each year focusing on skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, BMX, cheer/T&T and digital media. In addition to summer camp, Woodward Tahoe also offers public sessions each year from August into April.

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