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 parade, 2025

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.

Rentals

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.

Summer

Camp Programming

A full season of arts, music, and community - daily activities for young and old, all summer long.

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Camp Naivelt
Camp Naivelt

Our cabins

Cabins on three hills above the Credit River.

See the cabins Our cabins
Summer

Camp programming

A full season of arts, music, and community.

Programming Camp programming
1925-2025

A century of summers

One hundred years on the Credit River.

Naivelt at 100 A century of summers