About the camp
About Camp Naivelt.
Camp Naivelt is a multi-generational, family-oriented, secular Jewish summer community, built on humanist, social-justice values. We have called these 50 forested acres unzer zumer haym, our summer home, for a hundred years.

The camp sits on a wooded bend of the Credit River in Brampton, Ontario, about an hour northwest of downtown Toronto. Families have gathered on this land every summer since 1925, in cottages handed down across generations. The river is the heart of camp life: children learn to swim in it, the footbridges cross it, and the hills above it hold the open-air stage where the Saturday-night concerts have run for a century. The Credit is one of southern Ontario's last cold-water rivers, a protected greenbelt corridor that keeps Naivelt green and quiet a short drive from the city.
Naivelt is a community of the United Jewish People's Order, and shares its commitments: secular Jewish culture, Yiddishkeit, and a century of social activism.
What we offer
Cabins, programming, a place on the river.
Our Cabins
Camp Naivelt maintains a limited number of Camp-owned cabins for rent each season, mid June through mid September - a great way to get to know the community.
Camp Programming
A full season of arts, music, and community - daily activities for young and old, all summer long.
From the archive
A season at camp.
1927Camp Kindervelt in Rouge Hills, 1927, Becky Lapedes (top left), one of the founders of the Camp and a UJPO stalwart for decades
1980sDogs trot along the road past the cabins in autumn
2005A hydro crew works on the power lines at Camp during the “Great Hydro Crisis”
2025Camp Naivelt’s 100th anniversary weekend ended with a lively parade, August 2025 (Photo by Robert Bergman)Continue exploring
Camp Naivelt →Our cabins
Cabins on three hills above the Credit River.
See the cabins →Our cabinsCamp programming
A full season of arts, music, and community.
Programming →Camp programmingA century of summers
One hundred years on the Credit River.
Naivelt at 100 →A century of summersCome spend a summer.
Cabins on three hills above the Credit River - apply to rent, or come see camp for yourself.