Camp for Boys
Camp Greylock is a well-rounded, traditional, sleepaway camp with a diverse program of sports, healthy outdoor activities, and arts.
A summer visit is the best way to truly appreciate the beauty and quality of Greylock’s facilities. Picture a natural park set on three hundred acres of forest land, nestled between rolling hills and a large, sparkling, spring-fed mountain lake. Our waterfront extends close to a half-mile along Center Lake. Within this beautiful setting, you will find a combination of well-maintained traditional fields and courts, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
A partial list of our facility is as follows: 15 Tennis courts (8 lit for night play), 10 Basketball courts (8 lit for night play), 5 Baseball fields (1 lit for night play), 3 Soccer fields, 2 100-yard Flag Football fields, a regulation in-line hockey rink (lit), a Lacrosse field, 12 Golf hitting cages, a putting green, an eight-acre on-campus nine-hole executive golf course, a two-sided climbing wall, a zip line, low and high ropes courses, and a state of the art weight room for our staff and older campers.
In addition, we have many buildings on the campus, including beautiful camper and staff cabins, a dining hall, a social hall, a health center, an indoor and an outdoor theatre for shows, two indoor movie spaces, four shower houses, and an art studio. Greylock is also committed to expanding and improving our program and facilities, and we believe we have the finest facility in private camping. Our most recent major project was a Field House, equipped with four new indoor basketball courts, retractable baskets, bathrooms, and a conference room. Occupying 22,000 square feet, it is the largest recreational field house of any residential sports camp of our kind.
Our large campus affords us the opportunity to do a great deal of adventure-oriented activities on our grounds. Our 300-acre facility includes three outpost sites for overnights, many campfire areas, numerous hiking trails, and six exceptional mountain biking trails.
Food
When a boy is at camp, mealtime is much more than simply having something to eat. It is an exciting social event, a time to relax, an opportunity to deepen friendships, and of course a time to be fulfilled and nourished.
Because we realize this is such an important time and that nutrition is so important to the boy’s health and happiness, we go the extra step to contract with the world’s premier food service provider. Sodexo, who cooks and manages at over 30,000 sites across the globe, specializes in food service at corporations, universities, and schools, as well as restaurants and catering. We know that any food can be harmful if prepared or purchased incorrectly. People often focus only on children with food allergies; however, this is only part of the possible dangers that can exist when providing food. Sodexo staffers are rigorously trained in the handling, preparation, and serving of food. This professionalism allows us to help campers who are picky eaters or have food allergies.
For those with special diets – whether they be vegetarians, have allergy concerns, or special dietary demands, we have a specific chef to work with a menu plan. Our dining hall does not serve anything with nuts and we have not done so for more than ten summers. Greylock is equipped and prepared to help campers who have special dietary needs. We have a separate cooking and preparation area in the kitchen for these campers, as well as a different serving station for them, to help ensure the best possible nutritional safety for those with culinary challenges. The Sodexo team includes a dining room manager, a registered dietitian, chefs, su-chefs, salad makers, and bakers.
Ice water is on each table for all meals, and there are numerous milk, juice, and drink machines throughout the dining hall. Our dining hall is always open so that campers can stop in between meals and get a piece of fruit for a snack or a drink. Greylock has an additional organized snack each night for boys just before bedtime.
We serve our meals in a beautiful and spacious dining hall, built right in the center of our campus. Junior and Senior sides eat at separate times to avoid crowds. Food is served cafeteria-style with a server for each dish at two separate stations. The dining hall has an intricate system of ceiling fans that keeps the room cooled and there is no bleed-over of heat or smell from the kitchen area. Campers eat at round tables and are supervised by staff at every meal, who strongly encourage good table manners and an expansion of their culinary repertoire.
Health
The primary focus at Greylock is your son’s physical and mental health. We take the care of your sons very seriously and employ a superior medical staff to maintain good health, hygiene, and care for our campers. The Greylock Health Center includes a director of health services, a physician, a head nurse who is a nurse practitioner, registered nurses, assistant nurses, athletic trainers, and medical aids.
The health center is manned twenty-four hours a day.
In the case of emergencies, Berkshire Medical Center is 15 miles from campus and is a certified trauma center. In the event of more a complicated situation, we are 35 miles away from a level one trauma center. In the event of an emergency, the town of Becket has an excellent, full-time ambulance service headquartered near the campus. Greylock also has ongoing relationships with the premier private orthopedists, dentists, orthodontists, plastic surgeons, and dermatologists in the area as well as comprehensive rehabilitation therapists.
The health center is recently remodeled and has a beautiful pine-paneled reception area, private examination areas, overnight accommodations for over a dozen boys. Each room is equipped with a television to help the hours pass by more pleasantly. The Health Center also has its own kitchen. We use an EMR reporting system to keep track of the details of the care of your son.
- Archery, Art
- Baseball, Basketball, Boating
- Canoeing, Climbing Wall, Condition & Strength Training
- Drama, Evening Activities
- Fencing, Fishing, Flag Football
- Golf, Hiking & Overnights, Intercamps, Lacrosse
- Mountain Biking, Nature & Overnights, Olympics and Red & Grey
- Ping Pong, Playdays with our Sister Camps
- Radio & Electronics, Roller Hockey, Ropes Course
- Sailing & Windsurfing, Socials with our Sister Camps
- Soccer, Swimming
- Tennis, Tournament Play, Trips
- Volleyball, Waterskiing, Knee Boarding, Wake Boarding, Zip Line
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Greylock is the Northeast’s preeminent traditional residential summer camp for boys, entering our 105th summer on Center Lake, in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. Our camp is the home of over 400 boys, divided equally between a junior and senior campus. Greylock features an unparalleled facility of nearly 300 acres on a beautiful lakefront campus and an instructional teaching program that is second to none. We offer a structured program that combines gameplay and teaching in all major land sports, waterfront activities, nature/adventure, and the arts. Since 1916, we have stressed the importance of citizenship, sportsmanship, fair play, and friendship
Meet Our Director
Camp Greylock is privately owned by Michael Marcus and Lukas Horn, who purchased the camp in 1994.
Our three directors combined have over 200 summers of camp experience at Greylock. Each member of the directorate has been at camp for more than twenty-five years, lives on campus during the season, and works only at Greylock during the summer and winter.
Director Michael Marcus has been working at Greylock since 1982. He served as a counselor and department head before joining the directorate. Michael lives in New York City and is married to Diane, the owner-director of Camp Belvoir Terrace in Lenox. They are proud parents of Avery, a current camper at Belvoir.
Director Lukas Horn has been working at Greylock since 1980. He was a camper, counselor, department head of the waterfront, and head counselor before joining the directorate. His father, a Greylocker from 1948 through 1953, introduced Lukas to Greylock. Lukas lives in New York City.
Associate Director and Director of Athletics Jim Mason has been coming to Greylock since 1975. He was a camper, counselor, department head, and group head at Greylock before joining the Directorate. Jim’s grandfather and his two brothers, George, Lou, and “Doc” Mason, are the founders of Greylock and ran the camp from 1916 through 1948. Jim coached fifteen seasons of college baseball, including stints at the University of Rhode Island and George Washington University.
Our Staff
Each summer Greylock brings together a group of 250 men and women, who want to make a positive impact on the lives of children. Of those 250, 150 live in cabins with the campers, 40 are professional staff, 30 are women, and 30 work in a support staff capacity. Of the 150 bunk staff, more than half are returning from previous summers, and about 15% come from outside North America. Nearly all of our cabins in 2019 had at least one returning staff member.
Greylock is run by three directors who have over 200 years of experience combined at our camp. Our infrastructure also includes three head counselors, eight group heads, and five assistant group heads. Each has extensive experience at Greylock. Most are young teachers in their late twenties and thirties, many of whom now have young families themselves.
We have an extraordinary professional staff of coaches who run our activity areas. Unlike most camps, department heads are given no other responsibilities in camp so that each lesson that they teach is dynamic, fun, and upbeat. In 2019, Greylock employed well over a dozen coaches who had coached at the collegiate level. Among them were coaches with over 1000 collegiate baseball victories, an NCAA tennis national champion, a Davis Cup & Olympic player, a former NBA player who was teammates with Michael Jordan, a two-time New York state teacher of the year, and a US Olympic committee national developmental coach of the year. Almost 60% of our counselor staff as worked previous summers with us. About one-third of our bunk staff are former campers. Of our 60 top staff leadership positions (department heads, group heads, and their assistants, directors, and head counselors), 58 of them were filled by people with Greylock experience. Our seven group heads had a combined 66 years of experience at Greylock. Our 20 department heads had a combined 203 years of experience at Greylock. It is an extraordinary group.
Our overall bunk staff to camper ratio on campus is approximately 3 to 1, and it is 2 to 1 for cabins with boys under the age of ten. Our counselors are highly motivated young men and women, who wish to make a positive impact on the lives of children. They are recruited from U.S. colleges, and a few are from around the world. Most of our counselors are returning staff members and many are former campers. They have completed at least one year of college, and most are upperclassmen and graduate students.
A criminal background and multiple reference check is conducted on all people who work at Greylock. In addition, all staff members are personally interviewed by a director before they are hired. Our mandatory ten-day orientation session, one of the longest in camping, is yet another chance to make sure that all staff shares the camp’s philosophy on the treatment of children and appropriate interactions.
With such a large staff, Greylock offers leadership and instruction, close camper supervision, and a counselor to camper ratio unparalleled in camping.
Facility and Location
A summer visit is the best way to truly appreciate the beauty and quality of Greylock’s facilities. Picture a natural park set on three hundred acres of forest land, nestled between rolling hills and a large, sparkling, spring-fed mountain lake. Our waterfront extends close to a half-mile along Center Lake. Within this beautiful setting, you will find a combination of well-maintained traditional fields and courts, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
A partial list of our facility is as follows: 15 Tennis courts (8 lit for night play), 10 Basketball courts (8 lit for night play), 5 Baseball fields (1 lit for night play), 3 Soccer fields, 2 100-yard Flag Football fields, a regulation in-line hockey rink (lit), a Lacrosse field, 12 Golf hitting cages, a putting green, an eight-acre on-campus nine-hole executive golf course, a two-sided climbing wall, a zip line, low and high ropes courses, and a state of the art weight room for our staff and older campers.
In addition, we have many buildings on the campus, including beautiful camper and staff cabins, a dining hall, a social hall, a health center, an indoor and an outdoor theatre for shows, two indoor movie spaces, four shower houses, and an art studio. Greylock is also committed to expanding and improving our program and facilities, and we believe we have the finest facility in private camping. Our most recent major project was a Field House, equipped with four new indoor basketball courts, retractable baskets, bathrooms, and a conference room. Occupying 22,000 square feet, it is the largest recreational field house of any residential sports camp of our kind.
Our large campus affords us the opportunity to do a great deal of adventure-oriented activities on our grounds. Our 300-acre facility includes three outpost sites for overnights, many campfire areas, numerous hiking trails, and six exceptional mountain biking trails.
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