For Vermont. For the land. For what’s next.

100 More Years of Hochelaga

For more than a century, generations of campers have found friendship, freedom, confidence, and belonging at Camp Hochelaga. Now, this place needs our collective care.

The 100 More campaign will renew aging infrastructure, improve accessibility, strengthen climate resilience, and prepare Camp Hochelaga to serve campers and communities throughout the year.

This is more than a campaign to preserve the past. It is an invitation to shape Camp’s next century—together.

Help Build the Next 100 Years

Our Moment to Care for Camp

Camp Hochelaga has adapted across generations while preserving what matters most: the friendships, traditions, adventures, and sense of belonging that people carry with them long after leaving.

Today, Camp faces a new set of challenges. Aging buildings and infrastructure require significant investment. Climate change is bringing more extreme heat, storms, flooding, and uncertainty. Rising costs make operating a seasonal camp increasingly difficult.

We cannot meet these challenges by standing still.

The decisions we make now will determine whether Camp Hochelaga remains safe, welcoming, and financially sustainable for the generations that follow us.

What does “100 More” mean?

“100 More” is our commitment to prepare Camp Hochelaga for another century of belonging, leadership, learning, and connection to the natural world.

Through this campaign, we are working toward a Camp that is:

  • Safe and resilient in a changing climate

  • Accessible to more bodies, ages, and abilities

  • Financially sustainable beyond the summer season

  • Available for year-round learning, gatherings, and community-building

  • Rooted in the traditions people treasure while continuing to grow alongside the communities we serve

We are not trying to preserve Camp unchanged. We are caring for what generations before us built while creating something future generations can inhabit, shape, and call their own.

What the campaign will build

Building Camp’s Next Century

Renew Aging Infrastructure

We will repair and modernize essential buildings and systems so that Camp remains safe, functional, and welcoming.

This work may include:

  • Replacing or updating our aging water filtration and septic systems

  • Replacing or updating quarters for seasonal staff, increasing our likelihood of retaining quality employees

  • Updating our electrical systems so that we can adopt technologies that decrease our dependence on increasingly expensive fossil fuels

Strengthen Climate Resilience

Camp Hochelaga sits on land and water that are already being affected by a changing climate. Preparing for the future means adapting our buildings, infrastructure, programs, and stewardship practices.

Campaign investments will help Camp respond to extreme heat, severe weather, changing shorelines, and other environmental pressures while reducing our ecological impact.

Planned work includes:

  • Replacing shingle roofing with standing seam roofs that are more resilient to extreme weather

  • Painting the Lodge roof with reflective coating to reduce heat capture

  • Adding air filtration systems to use when wildfire smoke makes air quality dangerous for staff and campers

Create a Year-Round Community Resource

Camp’s future extends beyond the summer season.

With appropriate improvements, Camp Hochelaga can become a year-round place for leadership development, retreats, environmental education, community gatherings, creative work, and collective learning.

Expanding year-round use will bring more people into relationship with Camp while helping generate the revenue needed to sustain the property and protect the summer camp experience.

Who is this future for?

A Future Rooted in Access and Belonging

Camp Hochelaga’s next century should not belong only to people with wealth, institutional access, or an existing connection to Camp.

We are working toward a future in which more girls+, young people, families, artists, organizers, educators, and community members can experience this place.

That means protecting the traditions that make Camp feel like home while continuing to ask important questions:

  • Who has historically been able to access outdoor spaces like Camp Hochelaga?

  • Who has encountered financial, physical, cultural, or institutional barriers?

  • How can this land serve campers and the broader community without compromising the summer camp experience?

  • How can our decisions reflect responsibility to one another, to the land, and to future generations?

The 100 More campaign is an opportunity to answer those questions through our choices—not simply through our words.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. You will recieve a letter from us confirming your donation, ready to use when you file your taxes.

  • Your donation does directly to YWCA Vermont. Every dollar donated through this page will be earmarked for the 100 More campaign. If you’d like to donate to our other causes, such as No Bunk Empty, or our Circle of Girls+ Scholarship fund, please visit the donation page.

  • We need your help to build Hochelaga’s future! Please reach out to sultana.khan@ywcavt.org to find out how you can support 100 More with your time and talents.

  • We love in-kind donations! Please reach out to contactus@ywcavt.org to discuss potential donations.

  • Yes. Hochelaga’s past is just as important as our future, and we love to celebrate the many wonderful campers who have spent time with us. Let us know how we can help you honor a loved one at camp.