Voted Best Summer Camp 2026 Union Leader Readers' Choice

Day and Overnight Camp in Northwood, NH

Camp has run on this land since 1937. Today it's day camp for ages 8–14 and overnight camp for ages 9–15, one week at a time, on 300+ acres of woods and lakefront we call Wah-Tut-Ca. We're a nonprofit, and scholarships are available.

Registration opens November 25, 2026.

Trusted & Transparent Nonprofit

We're accredited by the American Camp Association, and we hold Candid’s Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level Candid gives. Our finances and goals are public on our Candid profile.

A snippet of Summer 2026

A canoe on Northwood Lake. Marshmallows in the pines. The whole camp in the amphitheater. One backflip off the water trampoline. Four frames from a summer at Wah‑Tut‑Ca. The rest of 2026, week by week, is at photos.lanternlightcamps.org.

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Meet our Camp Director

Nick Wood has been around camp his whole life. More than 18 summers as a camper, a counselor, and a senior camp leader, and he now leads Lantern Light Camps. He holds an MBA from Babson College.

He holds the camp to three things: every child included, this land looked after, and a week outside that kids talk about for the rest of the year. Day camp or overnight, which week to pick, a scholarship: write him. He answers.

Write to Nick

(603) 942-5233 [email protected]

Nick Wood, Camp Director of Lantern Light Camps, smiling outdoors in a red jacket
Nick WoodCamp Director
October 1, 2026
Wah-Tut-Ca Preservation Association Secures the Reservation
Alumni purchased the historic reservation on Northwood Lake. Lantern Light Camps will keep running camp there.
April 7, 2026
That Feeling Doesn’t Happen by Accident
From a talk at the 2026 Key Foundation Conference: kids get scored all day. At camp, the woods don’t keep score.

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