Snail Mail

Campers write home twice a week. However, more important than the letters you receive from your child at camp are the letters the campers receive from home. You can send letters by mail or using the email system through CampIntouch (see below). Please write to your children often. We recommend that parents write several days before camp so there will be a letter from home waiting upon arrival. Due to processing at camp and through our local, small post office, snail mail can take 5 days to pass through either end of the system. Note: If snail mail is sent before camp begins it is okay to send without a bunk number. Once you know your camper’s bunk number, please add it to the envelope!

We recommend sending your child with pre-addressed and stamped postcards or envelopes to “ease the burden” of letter writing. Also, sending sufficient paper, envelopes, stamps, and writing implements is a must. This information is also listed in the packing lists!

Send snail mail to your camper: Your camper will be excited to receive mail from you often! Please use this address:

 CAMPER NAME / Bunk Number (will receive on the first day of camp!)

CYJ Sprout Lake

6 Sprout Lake Camp

Verbank, NY 12585

Email

Sprout Lake is delighted to offer our families a way to email their campers while they are at camp! All parents will receive 6 FREE emails per camper called CampStamps, per 3.5 week session through our CampInTouch system. Unused CampStamps carry over between seasons, so any unused stamps will be available for future use.

 In order to email your camper and access your free emails, you will need to:

  • Log in to your CampInTouch account, and proceed to “Email” 
  • Choose the name of your camper
  • Compose and send (see image of the compose page below)!         

You will also have the option to check off “request a handwritten eLetter reply”, which will provide your camper a blank page to write back to you (red arrow on right). Please note that we cannot guarantee that your camper will reply to your letter. If you would like an additional person who is not on your account to be able to email your camper you can set up a guest account (red rectangle on left). The guest account will only have the ability to email; they will not see any camper information. Please note that campers will not be able to send any emails or respond to any emails outside of CampIntouch. For those campers that are attending shorter sessions, the emails are pro-rated.