South Mountain YMCA

Summer SOMAPY Day Camp

Registration Now Open!

At the Y, we let you pay your summer camp balance in a way that works for you! When you sign up, you'll need to provide payment information, but you stay in control. As long as you pay each installment before the due date listed on your receipt, no automatic payment will be processed. If you partially pay early, only the remaining balance will be charged. You can make payments anytime from registration until each installment’s due date, at any frequency.
To pay your balance:
  • Click here and log into your online account
  • Visit your branch’s Welcome Center
  • Call our Remote Welcome Center at 973-758-9039

ALL CAMPS: Starting February 1, a $35 administrative fee will be added for changes to your camp experience. April 1 - Final day for camp deposit refund.


Our camps are jammed packed with creative play, sports, and activities. We're about team-work, curiosity, building self-confidence, and cultivating independence. We are committed to the development of our campers. We emphasize making friends, resolving conflicts, and working cooperatively with others.

Unplugging from technology and connecting with other campers enables us to interact effectively and more kindly with each other. Every day, groups rotate through weekly themes that explore new topics. Educational programs and instructive entertainers are featured each week.

Activities include organized team-building games, animation, nature/science activities, and mini-sport clinics like soccer, karate, nutrition, and basketball.

Summer camp reunion & open house

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Welcome SOMAPY 1

Camp guide

Location: 

SOMAPY 1 Memorial Park, 580 Valley St, Maplewood
SOMAPY 2 Borden Park 67 Orchard Rd, Maplewood

Rain Location:

Delia Bolden Elementary School 518 Ridgewood Rd, Maplewood, NJ 07040

Ages:

Entering grades 1-3 (SOMAPY 1)
Entering grades 4 & 5 (SOMAPY 2)

Day and Time:

June 23- August 22
August 25, 26, 27 SOMAPY 1 ONLY

M-F from 7:30-3:30p.m.

SOMAPY 1 & 2 After Camp Care available from 3:30-6:30p.m. for an additional fee.
Member $100
Community $110
$35 change fee 
Financial Assistance Available

SOMAPY Week 10
Aftercare: 
Member $60
Community $70
$35 change fee 
Financial Assistance Available

SOMAPY 1 Camp Director Zachary Poe
SOMAPY 2 Camp Director Nyeshia Nelson

Listed are 2025 Camp Rates. Early Bird is last year’s rates. Limited time only.
 

Rates:

SOMAPY 1  
Down Payment  $100
Member Fee  $536
Community Fee  $566
   
SOMAPY 2  
Down Payment  $100
Member Fee  $551
Community Fee  $581
   
SOMAPY Week 10  
Down Payment  $100
Member Fee  $325
Community Fee  $345

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Weekly Themes

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Information and Forms

  • Medication Authorization Form
  • Alternate Pick Up Form available at Welcome Center, from Camp Director, Bus Counselor or the Extended Care Coordinators

Camp Cell Phone Numbers:  
SOMAPY 1 862.400.6021
SOMAPY 2 862.438.1451
 
Our staff will have a camp cell phone that will be active during camp hours. This phone is to be used for urgent information only. If you have questions regarding camp details, contact the camp director via email or contact our Welcome Center at: 973-762-4145.

Parent Shout-Outs:

"I can sincerely say my child is a different person at the end of August that she was in June.  She is in orders of magnitude more confident (I think as a result of learning how to swim and other physical activities she found difficult previously), and she demonstrates a new found cognizance of kindness and respect.  She is less fearful of trying new things and exudes a self-contained, quiet pride in herself and her abilities that makes me tear up, just thinking about it.  Truly, her growth at SOMAPY is more than I could have hoped for.  We will definitely be returning next year." 

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