HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO

Highlands Ranch Summer Camp

All year long, kids find themselves encased in rigid structure.

When summer comes, we give them what they desperately need — freedom to expand and evolve. At Steve & Kate’s, campers choose which activities they do, whom they do it with and for how long. For kids, this experience is pure joy. It’s also a kind of training ground for life, where they’ll need to be empowered and independent and resilient and responsible for their own decisions. Happy human-ing starts here.

Grown-ups adore freedom, too.

We’ve described the magical gift you give your kids when you empower them to make their own decisions. Now let’s talk hardcore convenience for you:

Buy a any number of days and send your kid to camp any day you want? Check.
Drop the kiddos off and pick them up whenever you want? Yup.
Long camp hours, all included? Totally.
Tasty meals and snacks, also included? You bet.
Get an automatic refund for unused days at summer’s end? For sure.
Do you deserve this kind of freedom? Yes, you do.

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ACTIVITIES

Camp details

CAMP DETAILS

DATES

Jun 2 - Aug 1

NOTES

Closed July 4

HOURS

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

AGES

5–12

ADDRESS

Platte River Academy
4085 Lark Sparrow St
Highlands Ranch, CO 80126

highlandsranch@steveandkate.com

CALL/TEXT

(720) 386-2528

FOOD

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Activities

Choosing activities: the daily dilemma.

Coding. Sewing. Baking. Making. Sporting. Filming. Lounging. Every day, campers face the excruciating task of choosing from these and many more engrossing activities. Some select a mix of many. Others burrow deep into one or two. Either way, each day they face new experiences bristling with trade-offs and tantalizing possibilities.

In the early morning and late afternoon, campers ramp up and wind down with recreational choices. For the bulk of the day, children will choose from the activities listed below.

Custom S&K animation stations position devices for kids to easily make shorts that get uploaded to their accounts for parents to view.

Copy of fashion_28 — Discover or deepen your love for sewing with colorful custom fabric patterns and exciting sewing challenges. Use hand-sewing and machine sewing techniques to design and create garments, accessories, and other cloth creations!

coding_5 — Practice hands-on coding with our carefully selected iPad apps, designed for both early and advanced readers. These interactive programs gamify learning, making coding fun and accessible for all skill levels.

dance_Perform_stage — Move and groove with motion-based games like Just Dance, or film your own music videos with friends. New this year campers can also make puppets for our custom theater. Want to burst out in song and dance, or act out a gripping dramatic scene? This is your big moment.

robots_2 — Kids learn to build, program and manipulate robots using indi Sphero, indi Bolt or Vexgo.

breadmaking1_web-309 — Explore new baked creations with fillings, spices, and add-ons, as you customize your confections to satisfy your sweet and savory palate.

maker_boys — Tinker endlessly with a thoughtful supply of arts and crafts, custom ‘maker packs’ made to spur innovation, and even 3D pens for the coolest collaborative and take-home projects. All-new this year, we added the As-Seen-on Shark Tank’s Chompsaw*, a power tool for transforming upcycled cardboard into creative projects.

piethrowing_7 (2) — Participate in decades-old Steve & Kate’s traditions like Find Chuckie—our beloved, elusive, rubber chicken—and Friday Pie-Day—where you can cap off a productive week by treating friends and camp staffers to a refreshing pie in the face.

gaga_girl — Run, jump, throw, kick, play. Get the go-kart experience or unleash with athletic equipment essentials chosen especially for your site’s unique fields and rec spaces. Team up with peers and staff to play classic sports and even make up new games!

5U9A0319 — Jump into a new special experience every day! Whether it’s a new giant inflatable, a musical performance, a movement workshop, or a popup petting zoo, you can count on this boredom-busting daily activity to switch things up! Look out for our official 2025 Specials lineup this spring.

waterslide_6 — There’s nothing like water play on a hot summer day! Stay cool with activities like water tag, inflatable slip n’ slides, and some giant sprinkler action. Wherever space, weather, and local water restrictions allow them, we bring it!

lounge_2 (1) — Join friends for some get-your-wiggles-out fun playing tabletop games, building marble mazes and forts, or retreat to a quiet corner filled with satisfying sensory objects and a thoughtfully stocked bookshelf to engage all ages and interests. All-new this year, we added the award-winning Superspace** magnetic fort-building panels ** we put a focus into supporting emerging startups to bring cutting-edge new products in the kidspace to camp

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TESTIMONIALS

Food

Eat your heart out. (It’s included.)

Life without delicious food sucks. That’s why our cuisine de camp features a mouth-watering array of tasty, nourishing grub. In partnership with fan favorite restaurants, we keep kids fired up with food they love — from piping hot pizza to salubrious Caesar salads to tangy tomato soup, and much more. Our menus include rotating specials as well as healthy snacks and sides kids can grab whenever their fuel gauge dips into the red. Chomp, chomp. Munch, munch.

Testimonials

These people are very smart. You should listen to them.

I really like that you've carved out something truly unique - a completely low-stress experience for parents. No pre-planning, no need to make lunch, no need to decide which days to attend, automatic refunds. It took some stress out of planning our summer.

Dan C.

(S&K parent)

Even though there are so many kids, she was able to put a personal touch to it by remembering every kid’s name, being open to suggestions as well as remembering to remind my 4 year old daughter to go to the bathroom! My daughter had so much fun making a dress for her bear, making bread, dancing, playing with the weekly specials and the list goes on and on.

Elaine C.

(S&K parent)

It's great to pick up your kid from camp with a smile and excited about the day they spent doing various activities. Staff was wonderful and not having to think about food was such a relief.

Christian K.

(S&K parent)

Events

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Highlands Ranch Summer Camp

HIGHLANDS RANCH, CO

Highlands Ranch Summer Camp

All year long, kids find themselves encased in rigid structure.

Grown-ups adore freedom, too.

CAMP DETAILS

Choosing activities: the daily dilemma.

STOP MOTION ANIMATION

SEWING SALON

CODING

THE STAGE

ROBOTICS

BAKERY

TINKER LAB

S&K TRADITIONS

SPORTS & REC

WEEKLY SPECIALS

WATER PLAY

LOUNGE & LIBRARY

Eat your heart out. (It’s included.)

These people are very smart. You should listen to them.

Steve & Kate's Events

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