An experience of a lifetime.
Alice Rich Northrop Memorial CampBoard of Directors
About
Alice Rich Northrop Memorial Camp is a non-profit nature camp located on approximately 300 acres in the town of Mount Washington in the southern Berkshires of Massachusetts. It is dedicated to reaching out to inner city boys and girls to give them a nature experience which they would otherwise not be able to have.
As envisioned by Alice Rich Northrop in 1920, disadvantaged children at no cost to their families may see, touch, and come to understand how a variety of marvelous organisms interact with each other and with us.
Northrop Camp is an ecologically diverse wilderness area set aside by the Nature Conservancy to preserve rare plants and animals. In addition, about 6 mowed acres of the 300-acre property have, from the beginning, been set aside as a camp to provide inner city children an intimate encounter with the natural world.
Northrop Camp is dedicated to the belief that teaching children to respect and appreciate all life — both the natural world around them and each other — produces adults who care about the environment and who succeed in the careers they choose.
For 71 years, Northrop provided New York City girls and boys, whose families could not otherwise afford camp, the opportunity to learn about nature and the environment during the summer.
"Nestled in the hills of western Massachusetts in the small community of Mount Washington, Northrop Camp is surrounded by the beauty of primitive nature that make the Berkshires one of New England's most beloved landscapes."