This was Camp Shawana (A Camp Fire Girls Camp) from around 1948-1990, It was then sold to be used as a Christian camp by a group called "Higher Ground". It has a steep wooded entrance off of Kiser Lake Rd. In back of where Kiser Lake Marina is. You are looking South-Southeast.

I was a Camp Fire Girl and attended Camp Shawano as a camper 1970-76 - A CIT 1977 & 78 - A General counselor 1979 - 81 and Water Front Director 1982-1884. Pictured is the staff house called the Edna B. and the Jim Davis Lodge where meals were held.

I was a Camp Fire Girl and loved going to summer camp at Camp Shawano from 1953-1960. In the years before the swimming pool was built, we walked down the entrance road for swimming lessons off the dock in Kiser Lake. We learned to canoe there, too. One night each week we slept out under the stars on the grass by the lodge. When I was older, I went to Hermits with a small group who camped out for several days in the woods. What a wonderful time we had! Every Friday night we had a council fire that ended with everyone filing up the path flanked by counselors singing “Remember the Times You’ve Had Here” and I still do fifty-nine years later.

“Remember the times you had here. Remember when you’re away. Remember the friends you made here and don’t forget to come back someday. Remember the hills and woodlands the sky and lake so blue for you girls belong to Shawano and Shawano belongs to you.”

I am 81 and went to Camp Shawano in 1948 as a young Bluebird, later Camp Fire Girl, from Dayton, OH. It is so moving for me to find this website. It brings back lots of memories incl. Daddy long leg spiders in bed and even on the walls in the restrooms! I was very homesick my first year but by 6th grade I had graduated to being a Hermit... Camping under the stars, cooking in a big pot over the campfire. (If you didn't participate, you didn't eat). We even had to dig our own latrines! Camp Shawano is where my love of camping began. I even appreciated the lifelong discipline I learned...

I stated earlier that we are looking South-Southeast, but we are really looking South-Southwest. I enjoyed all the comments that you folks have left. Best wishes!

I learned to swim in that lake when I went to camp there in the 50s as a Campfire Girl! Learned lots of songs and crafts and enjoyed the platform tent camping!

I'm 81. I was a camper in 1949 and 50 in Bluebird Valley. The dining Hall was large, maybe the lodge today. If you came in late they sang this song, You've been primping, You've been primping. Now you're late, now you're late. Start a little earlier, Start a little earlier. We won't wait, We won't wait. Funny, the things you remember. The big highlight of the week was the giant campfire with an Indian call that started, Hi lo eeny meeny oompah pah.... also learned to swim in Kiser Lake. I was only 7-8 and stayed 2 weeks in tents. Good memories!