Locations

Kennolyn offers you the best of coastal redwood and alpine lake experiences.

In the Santa Cruz Mountains, two adjoining properties are nestled on 450 acres where majestic redwood trees provide an awe-inspiring backdrop for camp adventures. Our property sits at the end of a four-mile dead-end road and borders Nisene Marks State Park, a protected 10,000 acre habitat. Quiet and secluded yet easily accessible, we are less than 90 minutes from the San Francisco Bay Area and just a short drive off historic Highway 1 and the beaches of Santa Cruz.

The Stone Creek Village houses our original Overnight Camp, Family Camp, and year-round office. Modeled after the old logging settlements once prevalent in the area, it boasts a replica of a typical Main Street from that era. This feeling of a western settlement gives campers more than a camp in the woods, it gives them a special town all their own.

About one mile away is the Hilltop Hacienda where our Day Camp operates. With hundreds of acres of redwoods to explore and a stunning view of Monterey Bay, campers feel like they are really in the wilderness.

Our Day Camp and Overnight Camps operate separately on the adjoining properties – each with its own pool, ropes courses, and activity areas – to promote the unique experience each program provides.

Huntington Lake is the site of our second Overnight Camp.  We are excited to have this amazing location in the Central Sierra Nevada Forest just south of Yosemite Valley. We are at the base of Kaiser Peak with access to thousands of miles of beautiful hiking trails, mountain lakes, rivers. We have a newly built dock and new, beautiful cabins with sailing, waterskiing, standup paddleboarding, wakeboarding, kayaking, fishing and more.

We are on Native Land

Kennolyn Camps, like everything in California, is on the ancestral land of native peoples before European Colonization.  Monterey Bay was home to thousands of Ohlone people known in Soquel as the Awaswas speaking Uypi (You-Pi). Today, their descendants call themselves the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Huntington Lake, in the central Sierra Nevada, was primarily the ancestral land of the Western Mono or Monache peoples. This is where Mono Hot Springs, about an hour away, derives its name. The people called themselves nümü, which meant persons.

As we enjoy our natural environment, we acknowledge the people who inhabited the land before us and are grateful for their stewardship. We encourage our camp community to learn more about the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and the Monache peoples.