Fresh Air Fund

Five of The Fresh Air Fund’s camping programs take place year-round on The Fund’s Sharpe Reservation, which has over 2,000 acres of wilderness property, in Fishkill, NY, 65 miles north of New York City. Special features at Sharpe include a planetarium, model farm and nutrition center, wilderness trails, and ropes courses. Camp Junior at Harriman State Park in memory of Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz is The Fund’s sixth camp, in partnership with New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Palisades Interstate Park Commission and the Bronx Borough President.

Each summer, over 3,000 New York City children learn and grow through immersive outdoor experiences. For two weeks, campers swim and row boats on the lake, stargaze, hike nature trails and learn about animals and where their food comes from at the camp farm and nutrition center. Campers return home with more confidence, new skills and new friends.