Youth and Union County have been camping at the Clyde, Austin, 4H Camp and Greenville for many years. This summer will be no different. We will leave on Monday, June 5 and travel to Greenville on a school bus. We will spend four nights having the time of our lives. We will return on Friday, June 9th. After a week of exciting and constant activities, youth return home in need a nap!

Many parents may have attended 4-H Camp just a few years ago. Many of those activities are still at camp today. Activities such as swimming canoeing, fishing, hiking, gaga ball, basketball, tie-dye, arts and crafts, woodworking, archery, muzzle loader shooting, air rifle shooting, leatherworking, are still done a 4-H Camp. However, many things have changed about 4-H camp since parents have been. Now there are STEAM activities, fossils, a waterslide into the pool, and a big kids playground. There’s a talent show and astronomy night. It is still the same military style Barrick that you remember from the past where everybody sleeps in one big room, girls in one cabin and boys in the other cabin. Except, now, the cabins are air conditioned.

4H summer camp is an opportunity for you to learn and explore youth. Youth will make new friends and learn new skills. Youth learn responsibility for their possessions and spaces at 4-H Junior Camp.

The price for camp is $320. However, there is great news! Union County 4H is lucky to be able to implement Tractor Supply’s 40H Clover campaign to help kids from Union County go to 4H Camp. Youth sign up for fundraising shifts at tractor supply to earn money towards the 4H Camp salt scholarship by selling 4-H paper clovers. The money goes directly to the youth’s camp fees. You can sell 4-H clovers and will earn 80% of those sales towards your camp scholarship. For example, if they sell $100 of clovers, $80 will be your camp scholarship. The other 20% goes to National 4H. If youth sell $400 of clovers for Jr Camp, they will earn a full scholarship to Junior 4-H Camp. Junior High Camp, for 7th and 8th graders, requires $431 of clovers for Jr High Camp for a full scholarship.

Call to sign up (865)992-8038 or come by UT Extension Union County 2721 Maynardville Highway, Maynardville, TN 37807 (we are located at the corner of Maynardville Highway and Hickory Star Rd in the Historic Booker Chevrolet building. Our office is located in the middle of the building)