Ages 7+
Creek & canoe
Salamander hunts in Hollow Creek for the little ones, and a canoe test on the lake for anyone who wants to paddle to the island.
Summer 2027 · registration open
A week in the woods your kid will talk about until Christmas.
Overnight camp for ages 7 to 16 and day camp for ages 5 to 10, on ninety acres beside the Pisgah National Forest. Creek, campfire, cabin devotions, and no phones until Saturday.
Lakeside campfire on the last night of Session 2, and four more moments from summer 2026. Photos by our media counselors.
Since 1961
Same creek, same chapel rock, sixty-five summers
Pine Hollow began as a week of tents for twenty-two kids from three Brevard churches. Today there are fourteen cabins, a dining hall that seats 180, a lake with a fleet of orange canoes and an outdoor chapel on a slab of granite everybody calls the Rock.
What hasn't changed is the shape of a day: breakfast at 8, cabin devotions, three activity blocks, a swim, supper, chapel at the Rock, and a counselor reading by flashlight until the last camper is asleep.
About one camper in four comes on a campership. Nobody in the cabin knows which ones.
What fills a week
Pick three activities, and swim every day
Campers choose three activity blocks on Sunday night and can swap once on Wednesday.
Ages 7+
Campcraft
Knots, shelters and fire-building, ending with a campout under the tarp on Thursday night.
Ages 10+
Trails
Morning hikes into the Pisgah forest, up to six miles round trip, with a lunch stop at Looking Glass overlook for the older cabins.
All ages
Music & skits
Ukuleles, songs for chapel, and the Friday skit night that parents hear about for weeks.
All ages
Crafts
Lanyards, of course, plus tie-dye, leatherwork and paper airplanes that get thrown off the dining-hall porch.
Letters home
What we hear in August
She cried at drop-off and cried harder at pick-up because she didn't want to leave. We've already booked next summer.
I learned to start a fire with one match and I'm not even scared of the dark lake anymore.
I was a camper for six summers. Now I'm the one reading by flashlight. It's the best job I'll ever have.
Before summer
Dates for parents
Nov14
Fall open house
10:00 AM · Dining hall
Walk the cabins, meet Clay and the nurse, and let the kids try the climbing wall.
Jan31
Early-bird pricing ends
11:59 PM · Online
Save $60 on any overnight session registered by the end of January.
Mar6
Spring open house
10:00 AM · Dining hall
Same as November, with a hot-dog lunch and the creek if it's warm enough.
Apr17
Family work day
9:00 AM · The Rock
Paint canoes, clear trails, eat chili. Families who come get a $25 camp-store credit.
Jun13
Opening day, Session 1
2:00 PM · Front field
Check-in from 2 to 4. Hugs at the flagpole, then parents head home.
Nothing in that category this month.
Sessions 2 and 4 filled by March last year.
Registration takes about ten minutes. A $150 deposit holds the spot, and it's refundable until May 1.