Why Camp Livingston?

Over a century of summers where campers come to know and love themselves, their community, and their place in the wider world.

Our mission

Lifelong friendships that thrive

Camp Livingston, a Jewish residential youth camp, enriches the lives of its campers and staff by providing a fun, unique, community experience, while encouraging the development of Jewish identity within a safe and inclusive environment. Camp Livingston enables the formation of lifelong friendships and provides the opportunity to participate in exciting recreational and creative programming.

Vision

A camping community built on enduring traditions

Provide a fun and creative camping experience that forms lasting memories and nurtures an appreciation of Jewish heritage.
Foster valuable communal life skills, inspire self-confidence, and build an appreciation of the outdoors.
Create an environment that teaches the values of care and compassion, encouraging social responsibility for the greater community.
Develop committed, active, and involved future leaders of the Jewish community.
Incorporate Israeli culture and Jewish identity into daily life.

Six core values

What we practice, every day

Kehillah

(Community)

Hachlala

(Inclusion)

Kavod

(Respect)

Zechut Yehudit

(Jewish Identity)

Manhigut

(Leadership)

Yichut Atsmo

(Personal Growth)

Camp Livingston is

The adventure of a lifetime

Campers participate in activities they know and love while pushing themselves to try new things — waterfront, ropes course and climbing wall, pool, hiking, athletics, archery, theater, and an arts and crafts center across 680 wooded acres.

Camp Livingston is

Rooted in Jewish culture and values

Being Jewish is woven into nearly every part of camp life: song sessions at meals, Shabbat, celebrating Israel. For some campers Livingston is a first Jewish experience; for others it deepens one they already have.

Camp Livingston is

A community that welcomes every Jewish child

Camp Livingston is a nonprofit community-based camp committed to serving all Jewish families regardless of affiliation. No one is denied admission because of race, color, national origin, sex, or age.

Since 1920

A memorial that became a movement

Camp Livingston was started in 1920 on 18 acres in Indian Hill, Ohio, on the site of the Helen Trounstine Camp. H. S. Livingston established the camp as a memorial to his only son, Lt. Robert Krohn Livingston — a decorated frontline serviceman of World War I who died at 24 in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Today Livingston’s facility has 22 renovated cabins, modern bathhouses, updated buildings, athletic fields, and a private lake. Campers come from Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Louisville, Lexington, other cities across the United States, and Israel.