Camp Colley is an outdoor
adventure camp nestled in a pine forest on the Mogollon Rim about 50
miles north of Payson. At the camp, the Parks and Recreation Department
provides structured, supervised recreation opportunities in a unique
forest setting. At an elevation of 6,700 feet, the camp provides a welcome
summer escape from searing Valley tempertures.
With additional construction
over the next few years, the Parks and Recreation Department hopes eventually
to be able to serve more than 1,200 campers each summer. The
Camp Colley Foundation was established to provide additional funding
to enhance and support the camp's facilities and programs.
The 30-acre site surrounded
by national forest has unique operational needs. Totally off the grid,
utilities are provided by the use of solar energy, propane, well water
and a constructed wetlands system for waste water disposal.
Camp Colley staff will also
provide coordination for a portion of the Jim Brahaney Daring Adventures
program, a four-season outdoor adventure program specifically designed
to meet the needs of teens and adults with disabilities. Camp Colley
will provide the perfect setting for the hiking, backpacking, wilderness
camping and cross country skiing segments of the Daring Adventures program.
Camp Colley is named after
James Colley, the former Phoenix Parks director who died in 2003. Throughout
his career he dreamed of a place where kids could experience nature,
perhaps for the first time. It would be a place where their social and
economic backgrounds didn't matter, a place where kids could just be
kids. Camp Colley is the realization of his career-long dream.
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