Finn Camp

This is on the National
Park Service website!

Detroit Finnish Co-operative Summer Camp (U.S. National Park Service)

Duck nest in the garden in front of the outdoor porch. Please be careful so not to disturb the nest.

Beach coverage needed for tomorrow from 11am-3pm. Contact Leah if you’re interested in working hours.
248-797-0798

The happiest country in the world wants to fly you in for a free masterclass Finland has held the title of world's happiest country for six years running. It wants to teach people how to unlock their "inner Finn" during a four-day masterclass at a lakeside resort in June.

Here's to Artie & Allie-Denise's Pride & Joy.

Take a look around and appreciate all the nature we have at Finn Camp!

Why Michigan’s short-lived vernal pools are the ‘coral reefs’ of our forests Springtime brings some fantastic and rarely seen wildlife to Michigan's woods.

Sheila Sorvari asked that we post these photos from 1964.That's Sandi Sorvari and friend Sharon Goldman in pic on right.

Clubroom is open!

Looking forward to the upcoming season at our Happy Place!

Wintry walk in the woods of Finn Camp after Sunday Sauna. Where home runs are born at the edge of our "Field of Dreams."

"There really is nothing like the Finn Camp. I've tried to explain it to folks around the country, but it really is impossible to convey the sights, sounds, smells and memories. How do you tell someone how it feels to sit in a sauna until you can't take anymore, then run as fast as you can across the damp grass, run the length of a wooden dock and dive into a lake of cold, rootbeer colored water. It just doesn't get any better than that. The Finn Camp was and is the best of life's simple pleasures."
- Janet Matero Phinney

Whenever I get coffee as a gift and drink it on Christmas, I think and remember Finn Camper Thomas Christensen, killed in Baquba Iraq on Christmas Day, 2003:
Army Staff Sgt. Thomas W. Christensen
Died December 25, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom-
42, of Atlantic Mine, Mich.; assigned to the 652nd Engineer Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, based in Ellsworth, Wis.; killed during a mortar attack on Dec. 25 in Baquba, Iraq.
The last time Staff Sgt. Thomas W. Christensen called his oldest brother from Iraq, he was relatively upbeat about life in a war zone.
“He had no complaints about being in Iraq. Other than it was kind of hot in the summer,” said Chris Christensen, of Detroit. In the last call, he said “they were shooting at him a lot less. It wasn’t so hot. He wanted me to send him some coffee.”
The coffee was in the mail when the family got the news that Christensen, 42, had died in a Dec. 25 mortar attack on his living quarters. He was with an Army Reserve bridge-building unit. Christensen joined the Army around 1981 and left in 1994, becoming a reservist.
God Bless his family and thank you for the ultimate sacrifice Thomas.

16 Years ago you all were stars doing summer stock theatre lol. (2004)

A Finn Camp kid is a happy kid!

In praise of our Ravintola area- where many a pasty has been served, many a bell chiming has been heard, many a memory has been made!

Sauna in Helsinki, Finland.
https://youtu.be/nfbkCkwzxy4?t=613

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Finn Camp updated their business hours.

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