What does a successful summer at camp really look like? At Camp Arrowhead, it’s more than activities and accomplishments. It’s watching boys become more independent, confident, capable, and willing to try something new.

Spring break is over—now what? Discover meaningful summer options for your kids, from structure to outdoor adventure and lasting growth.

Feeling nervous about sending your son to sleepaway camp is normal. Here’s what parents often worry about—and what usually happens at Camp Arrowhead.

A quiet season at camp is also a season of planning, reflection, and anticipation. A look ahead to the new year at Camp Arrowhead.

Camp Arrowhead combines outdoor adventure, hands-on activities, and real friendships—creating the kind of summer fun boys remember for life.

Camp Arrowhead’s Woodshop teaches boys real woodworking skills, creativity, and confidence through hands-on projects in a supportive, structured environment.

Register for Camp Arrowhead by December 17th and receive our exclusive 2026 ornament. Give the gift of adventure, growth, and lifelong memories.

Bushcraft at Camp Arrowhead helps boys slow down, listen to the forest, and build real confidence through hands-on adventure in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

In the Blue Ridge Mountains, boys discover confidence, courage, and independence in ways they can’t find at home. At Camp Arrowhead for Boys, our North Carolina sleepaway camp gives them the space, challenge, and community they need to grow.

The sound of hammer on steel has echoed through Camp Arrowhead for decades. Our blacksmithing program teaches boys the lost art of shaping metal with heat, focus, and perseverance. Every camper who lights a forge learns more than how to make a hook or knife — he learns patience, precision, and pride in a job well done, while finding what Maker Spirt means.

Where Growth Feels Like Adventure

When the morning bell rings across the valley, camp wakes with purpose. Boots hit the porch, the smell of breakfast drifts from the Dining Hall, and another day of possibilities begins.

At Camp Arrowhead for Boys, we believe that every boy has the power to create something lasting — not just with his hands, but with his heart and imagination.
That belief is the foundation of what we call The Maker Spirit: a drive to build, explore, and learn through doing.

Welcome to the Camp Arrowhead Blog — the official journal of Camp Arrowhead for Boys, a North Carolina summer camp where adventure, creativity, and tradition meet.

Something very exciting has been happening recently at camp… we are getting the homestead ready for the summer! With new animals and growing plants, there’s a lot going on down there and we can’t wait for you to see it.

There’s not a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to deciding when your child is ready to make the jump to an overnight camp. However, there are a few signs that show that it might be time! Written by Alli King.

This video is just a glimpse of what Arrowhead has to offer. In the coming weeks, we will be posting additional videos that will give more insight to our activities and staff.

Music is by Arrowhead legend, Mike Durham.

School closures are tough on us all. These are some of our favorite websites to help. Written by Alli King.

Raise your hand if pizza is one of your favorite foods. Us too! Camp Arrowhead makes wood-fired brick oven pizza every week.

Assembling the sawmill (which we named “Ron Sawnson”) was one of our first projects together in 2019, and since then Max and Ryan have become pros at turning this wood into lumber.