Registration for Earth Camp 2010 will begin soon!

Earth Camp is an exciting opportunity for children to enjoy outdoor recreation while learning about nature. Camp will include music, arts and crafts, games, hiking and nature exploration and much more!  As of March 1st 2010, we are in the process of finalizing the details for Earth Camp 2010.  We appreciate your enthusiasm and look forward to bringing all that Earth Camp has to offer to the children of our community.  While you are waiting for information about camp to be posted – we would be happy to add you to our Earth Camp mailing list.  If you have signed up for camp in the past you are already on the list (unless it was prior to 2005).  Otherwise, please send your mailing address to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and ask us to add you to the list.  Or you may call us at 440-965-5551.  You will receive our mailers and newsletters for Earth Camp.  You may also click on the newsletter link and register yourself to receive our email news blasts as they occur. 

Our Camp Philosophy

Earth Camp is a special place. At the heart of our work is a striving to enhance young people's sense of relationship with themselves, each other, and the world. Our belief is that children who attend Earth Camp gain a stronger sense of the diversity of life and possess new tools to assist them in sustaining relationships with their peers, families, and the community-at-large through understanding diversity, peacemaking, human worth, dignity, and respect, and through their own role in the world.

It is Common Ground’s goal to provide a summer camp experience for children of all backgrounds and walks of life. We raise funds each year that provides economically disadvantaged children with the opportunity to attend. Approximately 70% of children attending camp receive financial assistance.

Earth Camp has a strong environmental education component. We believe that by learning about our impact on the natural world, developing an appreciation of it, and gaining an understanding of the interrelatedness of all beings, children will make more responsible decisions and live in the world more safely and gently. Our environmental education program is experiential, hands-on, and interactive, and intertwines throughout other components of the camp experience.