Summer Camps in Boston

Best Summer Camps in Boston & Greater Massachusetts

Boston has one of the best-established kids' camp landscapes in the country — Mass Audubon runs nature-and-wildlife camps across their sanctuary network (Boston Nature Center in Mattapan, Broadmoor in Natick, Habitat in Belmont), the Museum of Science offers weeklong themed STEM camps, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Beaver Works Summer Institute (BWSI) runs a competitive high-school engineering program for rising 11th–12th graders.

Filter below by age, price, or neighborhood. Most Boston-area camps open registration in late January or February. Mass Audubon sessions fill by mid-March, MOS camps by April, and BWSI is application-based with a February deadline.

Best Summer Camps in Boston 2026 — Full Parent Guide