Maine Teen Camp
Established in 1984, Maine Teen Camp (MTC) is a progressive summer camp for teenagers only (13 - 17) that retains the sense of community and belonging of a traditional camp, but without the social barriers for a teen starting at a more traditional, broader age-range camp.Our focus is on the unique developmental and social needs of teenagers. The camp population is 225 campers per session, all between the ages of 13-17. MTC is a multicultural community, representing campers from all over the USA and the world. Our campers are placed in cabin groups according to grade levels in school. Our campers experience a broad range of activities, make new friends, and meet new challenges in a supportive and safe environment. MTC is a private, family owned overnight camp, located in beautiful south-western Maine. The property is almost completely surrounded by water. Our main lodge is the focal point of camp, overlooking Stanley Pond.Our mission is to provide each individual with a diverse camp experience in a safe and supportive environment that promotes emotional, social, intellectual, and physical development. MTC aims to improve confidence, resilience and independence; provide the motivation to explore new opportunities; and develop leadership abilities. Collectively this fosters a summer of personal growth, challenges, friendships, and adventure. Maine Teen Camp and its staff empower campers to make good choices and become successful community members and responsible and resilient young adults.
Summer Address
481 Brownfield Road
Porter, ME 04068
207-625-8581
Winter Address
96 Underwood Road
Falmouth Foreside, ME 04105
Camp Reviews — Memories from Real Camp Families
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| Sydney said... |
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| I attended MTC for four years and I can confidently say that it was the best four summers of my life. I gained so much insight on my passions and who I am. I made some of the best friends I've ever had and still talk and hang out with them if I can. Being able to meet people from all over the world makes it such an all enveloping and encouraging environment. Its such a magical place and I wish I could stay there year round. The counselors are amazing and the heads of camp are the best! If you are considering attending, JUST GO! You will not regret it. |
| Lyndsey said... |
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| Finding my home. Meeting my best friends. Falling in love with my husband. |
| Harry said... |
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| It's funny how "home" can be found so far away from home. We call MTC home, not in the sense that we grew up here, or simply because smiles never vanish, not even because happiness experienced at camp changes us in ways we may never know. We call MTC home, because home is more than just a location, home is even more than where your heart is. Home is where barriers of emotion and thought are nonexistent, it's where you feel secure, it's where you feel loved and accepted, where you have people who support you through thick and thin, and it's where you spend the best days of your life. However, exclusively to MTC, home is where we all come from the closest and farthest reaches of the world to forget all that is behind us, to make eternal memories and friends by our natural abilities to be social, and to utilize perhaps one of the only opportunities we will ever have to reinvent ourselves, yet also discover more about ourselves. Most important of all, it's where at some point or another we realize you cannot always be at home, but you can always feel at home. It's why MTC is home for me, for you, and for all campers and staff to come. |
| Tracy said... |
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| Dear All At Maine Teen Camp
I wanted to write to you all to thank you for giving Robert the experience of a lifetime. He has come home a much more mature and contented young man, and I feel that he has learnt an enormous amount from his experiences at camp.
He has forged unique and special friendships that will sustain him through many years to come.
We have been listening to all the wonderful things that he did during his stay and it sounds completely amazing - I am jealous. He has matured and grown this summer and I know he feels blessed to have had this experience.
Thank you all for your kindness, enthusiasm and patience - MTC is a unique and wonderful place and long may you continue to provide such life changing experiences to the teens that visit you.
Robert will be back......
Thank you.
Tracy
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| Seth said... |
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| MTC is literally heaven on earth, my four years at Maine Teen Camp; ,2008, 2009,2010, 2011 were the best experiences of my life. I have experienced so many life changing experiences in my years at maine teen camp. I had many friendships many of which I am still in touch with today. From the ropes course and spaghetti ropes, to the chance to be in a band and record music in a recording studio, to wake boarding, waterskiing, waterfront, to all the land sports, evening programs, hanging out in the lodge with all of camp during a storm. Evening meetings, morning meetings, off camp trips. There is not a single thing that I could favor over another. Maine Teen Camp helped me grow as a person, as a individual and helped me to realize the bigger and better things about life and what having true friendships mean! I don't regret anything about my years at Maine Teen Camp and I would recommend it to anybody in a heartbeat! |
| Karen said... |
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| Best summer camp experience ever! Our son is returning this year as a counselor in training. Highly recommend this camp. |
| Alex said... |
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| When i was in a band in camp. When we performed i had a blast, everyone was cheering and it was so much fun. I had a great time and enjoyed playing music. |
| Alex said... |
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| When me and my cabin won battle of the cabins. It was amazing we were all soaking wet and we tackled each other. We were all screaming and laughing. I remember having so much fun and i got even closer to them. |
| Valerie said... |
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| After going to MTC in 2010 and 2011 I decide to apply for this awesome opportubity they give you of beinf an LT. It's a program they offer to the oldest campers where we can show our leader skills at some level not as high as a counselor but being more than a regular camper. Never felt better in my hole lif. Being from Spain I tjough it was going to be very hard to get that apply done, but I try my best to accomplish and I get it, along with my best friend Borja. We both knew this was our last chance to spend our last summer at MTC as campers. As a 18 year old I am, I had to decide between my high school graduation or camp. I choose camp over my graduation and I dont regret ANYTHING. This place I called home, it's just magical. You get to know the best friends in the hole world. The love of your life and as most important, YOURSELF. You get to know all this people from all arpund the world and get so close to them in such a short time, it's just amazing. People might not understand how much you get to love this place, but it's just because they have never been there. And it's such a shame because I can truly say, MTC is the BEST place in the hole world, without any doubt. I can't wait to be a counselor there and someday, when I have the pleasure of have kids, I would love to send them to MTC, so they can know how wonderful it is. LT's 2012. |
| Hillary said... |
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| I was a camper and returned as a staff member because I just could not stay away. I had been to other summer camps growing up but once I went to MTC I knew it was a unique place. I was able to really come out of my shell in an environment that supports self-discovery and growth. Also, at camp I learned skills that I now apply every day. I chose a career in business but the graphic design skills that I learned at camp have given me a very unique skill that is very valuable at my workplace. My three summers at MTC were the best summers of my life and although I am unable to return because of my career it will always hold a very special place in my heart. |
| Jon said... |
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| The campers at MTC are also my brothers and sisters throughout the rest of the year, and the staff have become some of my closest friends. MTC guarantees STRONG international friendships, with a community spirit like no other! The only bad thing about Maine tEEN Camp is the fact it ends too soon! |
| Seth said... |
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| Maine Teen Camp, was the absolute best summer experience i have ever experienced. Between all of the friends I made, to the experiences to the activities, the awesome out of camp trips. This camp has been a truly amazing experience for me. There is not one bad thing I have to say about this camp. The staff is fantastic. Location is phenominal. Go MTC! |
| Hannah said... |
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| There are not enough words in any language that could explain or describe how amazingly magical and serene but also at the same time-crazy-in-its-own-special-way Maine Teen Camp is. Everyday is a new experience and a new way of seeing the world, never imagining what might happen next. Every morning That wonderful bell rings and i know that no one is going to let me down. When I am there it is a world in itself and no other place can simulate that. it is mine and so many other teen's run-away-place to hide form their problems, but in my case where i work out my problems with the unyielding support of my councilors, the office staff, and the Magical ropes staff. My Family is here and sitting every day atop the climbing wall that is the most magical place in the world. Nothing can beat it.
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| Jacob said... |
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| In the summer of 2007, just before my freshman year, I went away to Maine Teen Camp. I left as one person and came back as another: I found the funny man inside myself. He’d been hiding there for quite some time, unable to show himself because middle school had put him in such a funk. During the beginning of this awkward stage, known as adolescence, I felt that I was not smart enough, not mature enough to handle life, not old enough and not accepted enough. The time spent at this camp changed all that for me. For the first time ever, I stepped onto a stage and knew what it was like to have an audience reward your performance with a thunderous applause during the curtain call of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (I won't lie, playing Willy Wonka was awesome). For the first time ever, I fell in love; it happened over an immensely wacky rendition of �Like a Rolling Stone.’ For the first time ever, I understood what it meant to be someones best friend. It happened while creating a comical boy band, The Brokebacks. If you ask the owners of the camp, they will happily give you a play by play of our debut performance.
Today, I am a working actor in New York City, that all began at the MTC theatre (located right next to the outdoor basketball court). Today, I am a happy man who is in no way ashamed of his unusual sense of humor. Maine Teen Camp helped make me the man I am today; I will never forget that. |
| Helen said... |
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| I am from Scotland and I was quite nervous about going all the way to MTC and not knowing anybody when I got there. But the minute that I arrived at the airport, I felt at home. MTC is the most wonderful, magical place I have ever been and I feel unbelivably lucky to have had that experience. I tried so many things I would never have tried before and I loved absolutely every minute at camp. Beautiful surroundings, lovely food and the most amazing people! There really was something for everyone and I would encourage everybody to go, or send your kids.
If I could go back in time I would only change one thing - I would go for the whole summer! Without a doubt, best two weeks of my life! |
| Stokesie said... |
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| There is no other place in the world that is happier than Maine Teen Camp. I remember the first day I was there. I was of course, sort of like a freshman at a new highschool, unaware of how the term was going to play out and in awe at how amazing the atmosphere was and still is. Mind you, THe difference between MTC and Highschool is, well everything. There is not one person you dislike. It is an experience that needs to be had by every teen That is passionate about love, Fun, sports, art, music, dance and so many other things that without we would not be individuals. I alone have written Three songs at camp and have realized that i have a passion for guitar. MTC has changed my life and without it I would still be that Shy small girl with no voice and nothing to leave in the world but a quietly said opinion that no one hears. I have life long friends that i would have never found at school. I love Maine Teen Camp and you should go or send your child as well.
-Stokesie |
| Maureen said... |
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| Yesterday, I returned my youngest son to MTC after taking him out of camp for 24 hours for college interviews in Maine. First, he wants to stay in Maine for college after four wonderful years at MTC. Second, he radiated happiness the entire time we were with him. We talked to his brother who's been at camp for three years so they could catch up on all that he was missing. It was a very animated conversation. When we returned our youngest to camp or home as my husband and I both said, he was quickly enveloped by his friends in a typical MTC welcome and his smile got even larger. The camp has wonderful offerings but as a mother the best testament to camp that I can give follows. Both my boys lives have changed due to their years at MTC and are finer young men for their experiences. They have formed friendships that have altered their lives. I feel privileged that Matt and Monique are role models in their lives. I highly recommend MTC! |
| David said... |
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| Both of my sons have spent multiple summers at Maine Teen Camp and I think my youngest son's latest observation about this his last year sums it all up; " My biggest regret is not having gone every year that I could have". Beyond all the music, water skiing and just about any other activity you could imagine they both expressed the thing they will always remember most is the deep friendships they have made with fellow campers and counselors. Maine Teen Camp worked very hard to ensure all the stereotypes they dealt with at home were left behind and the camp allowed them to behave and express themselves without the fear of being judged. The cliques were left at home. The experience for my oldest son was so powerful that for his college essay he wrote about a friendship he made while at Maine teen camp. |
| Melissa said... |
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| they day starts with the saying, another beautiful day in the state of maine. and it always is. i was lucky enough to spend a summer here as a counsellor in 2007. although it has been a while since camp i still keep in touch with others and have even had a co counsellor visit me in south africa where i live. it is a magical place where teenagers can be who they want to be. there are so many activities to try and much laughter to be had. it is one big family. MTC always in my heart. |
| Sandy said... |
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| MAINE Teen Camp is a breath of fresh air, not only with the scent of pine trees everywhere, but with the refreshing faces of campers and counselors alike who are enjoying the summer!
WOW...to be with other people who want to sing, dance, play music, ultimate frisbee and tennis ....a place where everyone can try new things from and black and white photography to the challenge of water skiing....
swim in the lake and SWIM in laughter!
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