I wanna go back!
Rally your camp friends and make plans to come to Mentone July 26th-27th, 2025. We are so excited to welcome you back to celebrate 100 years of Camp DeSoto!
Stay in a camp cabin with your camp friends or rent a house in Mentone and join us for the festivities. The Dining Hall will be serving up all the traditional favorites, we’ll sing as many camp songs as we can squeeze into 24 hours, and we’ll swap stories to our hearts’ content.
Below is a tentative schedule for Saturday-Sunday, so you can anticipate the fun!
Saturday
2-4 pm Arrival and Welcome to Camp
5:00 pm Assembly in the Gym
6:00 pm Picnic on the Playfield
7:00 pm Ice Cream Sandwiches at the Store
8:00 pm Night Activity - 100 Years of Stories and Songs
Sunday
7 am Coffee on the Dining Hall Porch
8 am Sunday Breakfast
9-10 am Cabin Cleanup
Shop the Camp Store
10:50 am Line up for Church
11am Worship
12-1 pm Photos on the Gym Lawn
1 pm Sunday Lunch with singing
2 pm Goodbyes
A few important details….
The cost is $100 per person (if this is prohibitive, please contact us! We want everyone to be able to come).
Accomodations in camp cabins will be on a first-come, first-served basis. However, you are welcome to stay elsewhere and join us for everything else. If you will be spending the night somewhere other than Camp, please just make note of that on your application (in the “cabin requests” section).
We are planning just one night at Camp. However, if you want to make a longer weekend of it, there are many rentals available in Mentone - snatch one up now.
We love your husbands and families! And we’re dying for them to see Camp. However, this retreat is just for DeSoto girls and women. If you’d like to give them a tour as they drop you off or pick you up, of course they are welcome! But the meals and events are just for DeSoto girls.
Any girls and women over age 16 are welcome to come to this celebration. If you are under 18, you must be accompanied by an adult. (Unlike our other camp retreats, there is no 80 year-old age limit for this event, all DeSoto women are welcome!)