Camp Indigo Point is a residential summer camp in the midwest for LGBTQ+ youth
Nestled in the quiet midwest surrounded by water (a lake) and woods, camp offers a summer experience rich in friendship, fun, exploring outdoors, and adventure.
- Campers range in age from rising 2nd graders to rising 11th graders.
- Our staff-in-training program is for rising 12th graders
- Camp is staffed by LGBTQ+ adults, ages 18+
- Camp is run by our leadership team comprising a director, assistant directors, and community care director
Camp Indigo Point was founded in 2021 by Camp Manitowa (Dan Grabel & Andy Brown), Daniel Bogard, and Shira Berkowitz as a dream for a premier summer camp experience for LGBTQ+ youth and their staff. In a little over 7 months Camp Indigo Point was born and its leadership team planned, staffed, and operated a life changing week-long summer camp program for 100 campers and 40 staff in 2022. After that first summer, Camp Indigo Point established a Board of Directors led by Queer and Trans nonprofit professionals, alongside the original founders, and is currently overseen by the Board of Directors, and run by a summer camp director team. Starting in summer 2023, Camp Indigo Point serves up to 140 campers for a 2-week summer experience, with over 50 staff.
Camp Indigo Point is fiscally sponsored by PROMO Fund, Missouri’s LGBTQ+ policy and advocacy organization working to liberate the full spectrum of the LGBTQ+ community from discrimination and oppression.
The director and leadership team are hands-on every day at camp, communicating with campers, counselors, and parents. Our camp counselors are in the bunks and the activities with the campers. Many of our staff are LGBTQ+ and all serve as great role models. We keep a 4:1 camper to counselor ratio.
Our staff work in all different sectors in their everyday lives. They must have experience with and a passion for working with kids first and foremost, and each of them has a personal connection to the trans community in some way.