How this directory is made
CampGuard WA shows what Washington overnight camps already say in public, with the page and the date. Parents can start from that record. Camps can ask us to correct it.
This edition
43 camps across 16 counties. The statements in this edition were checked October 25, 2026. Each one started as an automated excerpt of specific public URLs, then a person rewrote it into a full sentence. If a sentence was cut off and the missing words were not obvious, that part stayed out.
An excerpt is not a full-site audit. A handbook mailed after you register, a page we did not open, or a policy that changed last week can all sit outside this record.
The seven topics
Every camp page uses the same seven topics, in the same order, whether or not the camp has posted about them.
- Health staff on site
- A nurse, medic, or other health staff the camp says is present, including who handles medication.
- ACA accreditation
- Whether the camp, or the American Camp Association’s public listing, states that the camp is accredited.
- Background checks
- What the camp publishes about screening staff, including criminal background checks and references.
- Evacuation procedures
- What the camp publishes about how campers and staff leave in an emergency.
- Abuse prevention
- What the camp publishes about training or rules meant to prevent abuse.
- Reporting procedures
- What the camp publishes about how a concern, injury, or incident gets reported.
- Parent notification procedures
- What the camp publishes about when and how parents or guardians are contacted.
How to read a line
Published statement means we could point at words on a public page. The summary is our plain-language reading. The link is the page. The date is when the excerpt was captured.
Not publicly posted yet means that topic was not in the excerpts we hold. It is not a finding that the camp skips the practice, and it is not a reason by itself to cross a camp off your list. Ask them.
Where an excerpt ended mid-word and only one completion made sense, the camp page says so. You can open the source and check our reading.
Where the words come from
Camp websites, parent pages, staff pages, and public ACA Find a Camp profiles. We do not use private handbooks, inspection files, or anything a camp sent only to enrolled families. We did not visit the camps.
American Camp Association accreditation is voluntary. We mark it only when the camp or the ACA’s public listing states it. A camp can be a careful place without that sentence on the pages we checked. Confirm accreditation with the camp and at find.acacamps.org (opens in a new tab) if it matters to you.
Google ratings are the star rating and review count Google displayed on October 26, 2026. Where one is shown, the label is “Google rating, checked Oct 26, 2026,” with a link to Google Maps. We left the rating off when the pin was an office listing (Camp Nor’wester and Camp Goodtimes), when the city did not match (Camp Korey and Camp Solomon Schechter), when one rating covered several camps (the Girl Scouts council row), or when no listing was found (The Mountaineers overnight camps and Island Lake Camp). Camp Kirby’s rating is the first of three Maps results, and that camp’s page says so. CampGuard never turns ratings, topic counts, or missing lines into a score, grade, or rank.
Regions
Counties are grouped so a parent can start with a part of the state: Puget Sound, the San Juan Islands, the Cascades, and Eastern Washington. The home page lists the counties in each group. A camp whose source line names two counties appears in both regions.
Corrections
Camps and parents can send a correction. Include the camp name, the wording you want us to show, and a public URL where another parent can read it. We link that page. We do not add a practice we cannot source, and payment never changes a safety statement.
Email a correction. The For camps page explains how a listing gets claimed.