Jameson Ranch Camp (JRC) was founded in 1934, and moved to its current location, Glennville, CA, in 1942. The Jameson family has owned and operated JRC for three generations. Located on 500 acres bordering the majestic Sequoia National Forest, JRC is 6.2 miles from Glennville on Highway 155. We are approximately 150 miles north of L.A. (a 3 hour drive), and approximately 280 miles south of San Francisco (a 5-6 hour drive from the Bay area).
We offer four two-week sessions during the summer, beginning in mid-June ending in early August. Campers stay for two, four, six, and even eight weeks! Most of our campers come from California, however, JRC campers are found around the world.
The facilities at JRC are rustic; campers sleep outside under sleeping porches, open on three sides, able to see the starts each night. We provide cots and mattresses; campers bring sleeping bags and pillows. Our kitchen staff prepares a wide range of nutritious and delicious foods using as much organic food as possible, and the rest locally grown.
We call it "growing children;" and our goal is to guide young people to have better lives through the pleasure of working and playing together. JRC's atmosphere encourages each individual's potential to be expressed and expanded in a setting that values professionalism, wholesomeness, integrity, playfulness, and the power of the natural environment to inspire children. Camp provides campers with role models that exemplify values of honesty, self-respect, and respect for others.
We believe strongly in self sufficiency. Our pace of life is connected with the sunshine of each day and we celebrate and create life's happenings. Growing our own food, tending the animals, playing and working together, all help to develop a caring community where each person is an important part of the whole. Campers know they are contributing to fresh bread for dinner when they gather wood for the outdoor oven. In today's high tech society, it is rare to sleep outside, gather eggs, and pitch hay to calves. Here at camp, this wholesome lifestyle continues from generation to generation.
Our purpose is to guide children to have better lives through the pleasure of working and playing together. We are in the business of people building, and camp encourages a child's potential to be expressed and expanded. We believe in professionalism, wholesomeness, integrity, having fun, learning by doing, and the power of the natural environment to inspire children.
Camp provides campers with role models that exemplify values of honesty, self respect, and respect for others. We want campers to emulate these values and have a meaningful experience that is fun. Camp provides a wide range of non-competitive programs for campers to choose their own activities. Involvement with these programs encourages life-long learnables like self-motivation, and a sense of accomplishment builds self-worth.
The facilities at JRC are rustic; campers sleep outside under sleeping porches, open on three sides, able to see the stars each night. We provide cots and mattresses; campers bring sleeping bags and pillows. We are proud to present delicious cuisine that features lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, child-favored foods, and homemade desserts. We shun packaged and pre-cooked foods and prepare all meals from "scratch".