NAME: Camp Green Lane

LOCATION: Green Lane, PA (northeastern Montgomery County near Quakertown)

TRAVEL TIME FROM CENTER CITY PHILADELPHIA: 45 minutes

AFFILIATION: private, Jewish owner

AVAILABILITY: mid-April-mid-June, mid-August-mid-October

CAN ACCOMMODATE GROUP SIZES: Day use: up to 700, Overnight: 480.

ACCOMMODATIONS: 38 dorm-style cabins, each with showers, toilets, sink and hot water. 18 hotel-style private rooms (sleep up to five each).

KITCHEN: Food service available, or group can cook its own.

KASHRUT: Kosher style, kosher option available. Group can kasher themselves, mashgiach available (Rabbi Steinberg), or group may bring outside caterer. Vegetarian option available.

FACILITIES: Five large enclosed buildings, one seats up to 700, others seat up to 200, two of those have stages. Outdoor lighted theatre, dining hall seats 500.

OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Lighted tennis courts, lighted basketball courts, volleyball, beach volleyball, softball, hockey rink, swimming pool, lake, boating, canoeing, high and low ropes challenge course, 2 gaga courts.

INDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Basketball, hockey rink, volleyball, big gymnasium, indoor large screen video theatre room, ping pong.

COST PER PERSON: (Dinner Friday-Lunch Sunday=Two days) With meals $32.50-39/day. Without meals, $15/day. Children under 15 discounted.

CONTACT: Allen Gurst, owner, 610-834-3866, 609-489-8363,
summer 215-234-8596

PREVIOUSLY USED BY JEWISH GROUPS:
Perelman Jewish Day School Family Shabbaton 1997,
Selma Roffman, 215-635-3130

COMMENTS:
Selma Roffman: The camp was pretty nice. The owner was very nice, very pleasant, and obliging, camp could have been a little cleaner. Be very specific about details, especially your kashrut expectations.