10 Reasons Why People Choose Becket-Chimney Corners YMCA Summer Camps
1. Traditional Four-Week Camp - A four-week experience allows for friendships to develop and skills to be learned. Our traditional, generalist program format allows campers to pursue a wide range of interests, as opposed to focusing exclusively on one particular activity.

2. Focus on the Cabin Group - The cabin group becomes the family unit at camp. Valuable lessons are learned through daily living – cooperation, communication, leadership. The emphasis on the cabin group results in strong bonds of friendship.
3. Comprehensive Youth Travel Programs - Our extensive travel/service programs for teens take place on five continents and allow participants to gain an understanding of other cultures as well as make a difference through meaningful service opportunities.
4. Innovative Programs - Construction Cabin, Climbing Cabin, Riding Cabin - As campers get older, our specialty programs provide new and additional challenges. In this way we keep the camp experience fresh for returning campers.
5. Single-Gender Camps - A boys’ world at Camp Becket and a girls’ world at Chimney Corners Camp allow our campers to flourish and to develop to their fullest potential without the added pressures of “being cool.” As our campers age, we do create limited opportunities for co-ed interaction.
6. A Beautiful Natural Setting - Our camps share a 1,350 acre site in the Berkshire Hills. Fields and forests, ponds and streams, abound on our camp property.
7. Exceptional Value-for-Money - Our camps offer a quality of staff, program and facilities that rivals that of private camps which charge two or three times as much.
8. Camper and Staff Retention Rates - More than 70% of our campers and staff members return to us each summer – a great tribute to the quality and meaning of a Becket-Chimney Corners experience!
9. History, Tradition and Song - Becket has been in existence since 1903; Chimney Corners will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2006. Each camp has traditions and songs that date back to its early days.
10. Character Development - There are great sports camps, computer camps and performing arts camps. Becket and Chimney Corners are great human being camps. Values are taught and character is developed through a carefully-designed program.