Camp Owner Pushes for Shorter, More Expensive Camp Season

Lake Huron, PA (August 15, 2025) – Camp Huron Lake Director Marty Feldstein is urging the Camp Advisory Board to recommend that the summer camp season be reduced from seven weeks to six but increase the cost of attending by ten to twenty percent.  Feldstein has been at the helm of Huron Lake since the early 1980’s when children went for eight weeks for a reasonable tuition fee but he hopes that his new idea will bring him a decade or so closer to retirement.

Long gone are the days of sending a child away for two months, getting a few letters and a call every so often, and seeing them once over the course of the summer on Visiting Day.  Feldstein cites rising costs of running the camp as one of the main reason to shorten the season but there many underlying factors that are just as big.

“Today’s parents need a few weeks to themselves to unwind, not have to deal with carpooling, sports, dance practice. It’s time that you can’t really put a price on…until now. If there’s one less week at camp, even at a higher price, parents are going to pay for their freedom,” Feldstein cleverly explained. “What parent doesn’t love to humble complain about how expensive their kids’ camp is and that they’re paying waaaay too much?  Frankly, it’s a win-win for everyone.”

Westchester couple Melissa and Jason Greenstein don’t love Huron Lake’s new plans for 2026 but their hands are tied since their children won’t go anywhere else.  They say they would pay whatever it costs for their kids to be happy.

“We just got back from such a relaxing beach vacation. Not one meal of chicken fingers or pizza. We hung out and drank in the adults only pool and the only splashing was from a woman doing laps,” said Mrs. Greenstein. “If Feldstein raises the tuition another 25% we’d probably still pay it. The guy knows his customers. And the kids, the kids love it.”

Feldstein has laid out an aggressive plan for the next twenty years which includes less camp for more money. After reducing the session to forty-two days, he will gradually remove three to four days each summer while effectively doubling today’s tuition fees. He thinks there are enough conspicuous consumers who will bite at the chance to send their kids to a perceived ultra exclusive camp.

“By the end of my twenty year plan, essentially people will be paying $30,000 to $40,000 to put their kids on the bus at the Livingston Mall, have the bus drive around the parking lot for a few hours while they buy Welcome Home gifts, then pick them up in the spot they dropped them off earlier that morning,” Feldstein quipped. “It’ll be fun for the kids. We’ll put a movie on but parents have to provide lunch.  I’m not paying for that.”