River Shredders Camp
Our River Shredders camp is structured to provide a breadth of paddling experience to both experienced and new river lovers alike. This amazing opportunity will expose your children to both professional instruction, and to RO’s award-winning brand of river adventure and exploration. Your kids will have the one-of-a-kind experience of learning to paddle everything from sit-on-top kayaks, stand up paddleboards, duckies, and even get some time in the guide seat of a commercial whitewater raft! Swift water rescue and river safety instruction will also be a featured in this camp…
But it’s not all about whitewater paddling instruction. No RO camp would be complete without loads of swimming, river island exploration and good old-fashioned camp standards. At an age where it’s hard to keep these young adventurers entertained, after a week with us, if your kids aren’t asking you for more, we’re doing something wrong…but don’t blame us if they hit you up for a new kayak!
River Shredders Camp is held on and around RVA’s awesome, award-winning river and urban forest. Camp is led by ACA certified instructors who are also professional river guides.
Quick Facts
Age:
12-15
Pick up drop off Location:
6836 Old Westham Rd., Richmond, VA 23225
Camp Times
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Cost & Session Schedule
2019 Sessions - Monday through Friday. Cost: $425 per week.
*Waitlist options available as of 5/27
- River Shredders new session just added: July 22- July 26
- River Shredders Week 1: July 8-12- Waitlist
- River Shredders Week 2: July 15-19 – 1 spot left! Email riversidecamps@gmail.com to enroll
- River Shredders Week 3: July 29- Aug. 2 -Waitlist
- River Shredders Week 4: August 5-9 –Waitlist
River Shredders Camp Faq's
- My child is on the waitlist. How likely are they to get into that camp session?
- I would not count on it. While it does happen from time to time, it is generally unlikely. Please refer to our cancellation and waitlist policy.
- Will my child be in the same group as his or her friends?
- If they are signed up for the same camp (Sapling, White Oak, Red Oak, etc) and the same week they will be in the same group.
- Do you perform background checks on your staff?
- Yes. We perform annual checks on all of our camp staff through a third party which covers local, state, federal and sex offender registries.
- My child is turning _______ years old on ________. Can you make an age exception?
- We almost never make exceptions in regards to our age groups. We have built into our camp structure a one year overlap in camps (i.e. a 12 year old could attend Oak, River Shredders or Old Growth).
- I am trying to enroll my child in a camp but I’m not seeing the enrollment options for their age group.
- It’s most likely that the camper’s age was incorrectly listed upon enrollment. Please email us at riversidecamps@gmail.com if you run into this problem.
- Do you offer extended day programming?
- Unfortunately, we do not. If you have multiple children in different camps on the same day that have different pick up and drop off times we will allow you to drop the children off at the earlier camp time and pick them up at the later camp time. **Please note- we can not accommodate early drop offs or late pick ups other than in the circumstance listed above.**
- I’ve forgotten my password and when I try to reset it through the website I am not receiving any emails.
- Most likely, the email you used to initially register your account is no longer current. Your email address is like a user name in our system so if that changes we need to be notified to change that on our end. If you can think of what email you initially received our confirmations from, that is the account to sign in on and book for the summer.
- Will pictures or videos be available for parents/guardians at the end of the session?
- Yes! We send out an email with the link to our photos the Saturday after camp ends. If you have opted out of marketing emails then you will have to contact us for the link.
**Cancellation/Refund Policy: All payments are non-refundable. Exceptions made at the discretion of our staff. If we are able to fill your camper’s spot through the waitlist, we will refund you all but a $30 per instance processing fee. See our waitlist policy below.**
** Wait List Policy: If we are filling spaces in a camp more than 1 month out from the start of that camp week, we will call one family at a time from the wait list and give them 48 hrs to accept the spot. After 48 hrs we will call the next family on the list. If we are calling within a month of a camp session, we will call everyone on the wait list concurrently and follow a first come first served policy.**
