Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, August 29, 1993 TAG: 9309240360
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Accommodations: canvas tents mounted on wooden platforms.
Two to four cots per tent.
Cost: $35 a day for adults, $15 a day for children under 12, children under four free.
Activities: Swimming (river), canoeing, kayaking, archery, riflery, horsebackriding, arts and crafts, tennis.
Camp: During the summer this is an all-girls camp that can accommodate 240 campers during each of two 3-week sessions. Family camp has been an Alleghany tradition since the mid-1960s.
Camp Alleghany, P.O. Box 68, Lewisburg, W.Va. 24901.
\ Camp Greenbrier
Family camp, called House Party - 11/2 weeks each August.
Accommodations - tents mounted on wooden platforms. Two to four cots per tent.
Cost: $36 for each adult, children at a reduced rate.
Activities: tennis, canoeing, riflery, archery, day trips into local caves and mountain hikes.
Camp: Greenbrier is a summer camp for 250 boys ages 7 to 15. Established in 1898, Greenbrier operates on the same schedule as Alleghany, although the camps are independent of each other. (They do this to help brother/sister teams who attend the neighboring camps.) House Party was instituted in 1948 and has been enormously popular ever since. There are very few openings for new families.
Camp Greenbrier, Route 2, Box 5A, Alderson, W.Va. 24910.
by CNB