The 2024 camp will be held from 11:00 a.m. Sunday, July 21st through 10:00 a.m. Sunday, July 28th.

The deadline for receipt of your completed application is June 1, 2024.

The Arthur C. Luf Children's Burn Camp is the only one of its kind in the Northeast. All children attend free of charge.

The Arthur C. Luf Children’s Burn Camp is a safe, natural outdoor environment for kids ages 8 to 17 from around the world who have survived life-altering burn injuries.

We encourage camaraderie coupled with physical and social activities designed to help campers overcome anxieties, develop and enhance their physical skills, and allow them to move beyond their scarring and burn injuries.

Our Objectives:

• To build each child’s self-esteem and self-confidence so that they are capable of overcoming their anxieties and are able to adapt to their injuries for reintegration into their family and community life.
• To enrich the lives of child burn survivors by creating a camping experience that is fun, entertaining, empowering, enhancing, energizing, and full of self-discovery.
• To provide child burn survivors with memories that will sustain and inspire them.

The Arthur C. Luf Children’s Burn Camp became a reality in 1991 after many years and hours of dedication and planning by our late President and Founder, Arthur C. Luf. The Arthur C. Luf Children’s Burn Camp is the only one of its kind in the Northeast.

All children attend free of charge. All expenses for lodging, meals, arts/crafts, activities and programs are paid for by the Foundation.

Most of these children have never seen a campground or enjoyed an overnight camp-out, let alone the many other camp activities which include campfires, hiking, fishing, archery, boating, and a challenging ropes course.

Active and retired firefighters from Fire Departments along the East Coast, medical personnel trained in treating burns, burn survivors, and caring individuals help round out the team of counselors for the children. All counselors serve on a volunteer basis.

Our campers come from all over with children from throughout New England, New Jersey, New York, Washington D.C., Maryland, Florida, Puerto Rico, and from other countries like Russia, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Peru, Croatia, and Vietnam.

We turn no child away.

The 2024 camp will be held from 11:00 a.m. Sunday, July 21st through 10:00 a.m. Sunday, July 28th.  Please complete the online application linked below to attend.

CLICK HERE TO START YOUR CAMPER APPLICATION

The deadline for receipt of your completed application is June 1, 2024.

Please note the following:

Only children burn survivors whose birthdays, by the date of the camp, are from the ages of 8 to 17, are eligible to attend.

All children attend free of charge.

Your doctor must complete and sign the state required Camp Health Exam Record and fill out the health history. Application to attend camp will not be accepted unless this is totally completed and signed.

We reserve the right to reject any child from the camp for disciplinary problems, emotional issues, or medical problems that would affect the child’s camping experience.

The camp address is Deer Lake Camp, 101 Paper Mill Road, Killingworth, Connecticut. The phone number for camp is 203-878-6744 which is the Connecticut Burns Care Foundation office located at 601 Boston Post Road in Milford, Connecticut.  There is an emergency number on the greeting message in case no one is in the office.

A completed application – either by mail or online – and an updated medical form are required for your child to be accepted for attendance to camp.

Eligibility	Youth ages 8-18 from all over the world are welcome.
Age Groups	Children Adolescents
Community Services	Seasonal Programs Summer Camp

Last Updated: 03/27/24