We are Western New York's premiere summer day camp located on a beautiful 34 acre campus of The Park School of Buffalo located in Amherst, NY.
park school summer day camp
2024 staff
WHO WE ARE
We are a team of trained educators with lots of experience working with children of all ages and in various specialty areas. We love playing, exploring, and discovering alongside our campers and helping them develop into exceptional young adults.
Focused on the same core values as The Park School of Buffalo — Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, and Kindness — we nurture our campers to be a positive part of the whole Park Camp Family. And most importantly, we do all of this through FUN, engaging activities and experiences at camp (it is summer, after all!)
WHAT WE DO
We do SO MUCH here at Park Summer Camps including...
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engage the whole child in a variety of hands-on activities and learning experiences
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encourage campers to try new things
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help our campers build friendships and practice healthy competition (It's fun to win, but more fun to PLAY!)
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most of all, HAVE FUN!
OUR DIRECTORS
Park Camp staff is a family, a camp family, with talented, dedicated educators who work as a team to provide a safe, nurturing, educational, and fun program. Our Directors and Assistant Director lead the charge!
John Mirand
Park Camp Executive Director
John has over 40 years of Park School Summer Day Camp experience. From 1996-2017, John served as the longest camp director, guiding the camp with talented staff and counselors. His leadership and vision continue to help Park Camp to be the best day camp in Western New York, thanks to an amazing administration team, staff, and counselors. He can't wait for Summer 2025!
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Julie Chamberlin
Summer Day Camp Director
Julie is a newly retired science teacher from Clarence Middle School. She came to Park Camp in 2006, when she worked as the science activity counselor, then worked in the camp office for seven years, and served as the head counselor for the PreK group during the 2021 summer season. She continues to come back each summer because she believes in the amazing experience that the Park Summer Day Camp offers to camp families and staff.
Maggie Dirrigl
Summer Day Camp Assistant Director
Maggie has extensive past experience leading another local summer camp program. In this role, she will oversee the summer camp registrations program and coordinate purchasing and ordering for all counselors. She is currently a first-grade teacher in the Sweet Home Central School District.
WHERE WE ARE
We are located in the town of Amherst in the hamlet of Snyder, NY.
Here's our address:
Park Summer Camp
4625 Harlem Road
Amherst, NY 14226
We are part of:
CAMP Policies
These procedures are put in place to allow Park Summer Camp administration the time and resources to properly retain staffing, purchase supplies, and coordinate food service for each camper. Late cancellations greatly hinder our ability to provide the best possible day camp experience for your children. We appreciate your strict adherence to the following registration requirements.
PRICING
The basic tuition is $495 per week, per camper: includes daily lunch, snack, and programming.
DEPOSIT
A non-refundable, non-transferrable deposit of $100 per child per week is required at the time of registration to secure your child’s spot. You will be prompted to pay this in UltraCamp. Your reservations will NOT be confirmed until this is paid. The deposit of $100 per child per week is applied to your total camp fee for that specific child's registration. This deposit will hold your registration between January 3, 2025 and February 28, 2025.
payments
All payments made with a credit card will automatically incur a 3% processing fee.
ACH and debit card payments will not incur this fee.
50% of your camp tuition balance must be paid by Friday, February 28, 2025.
This payment is non-refundable and non-transferrable. The UltraCamp system will automatically process this payment for all accounts that have a credit or debit card on file. If you choose not to keep a card on file in UltraCamp, you must log in and manually process your payment by Friday, February 28, 2025. You can also mail a check to The Park School, Attn: Business Office, 4625 Harlem Road, Amherst, NY 14226, but the check MUST BE RECEIVED by February 28, 2025 to avoid a late fee added.
Late Fee Penalties:
• Payments received after March 7, 2025 will have a $20 per camp week, per child late fee added to the total account balance.
• Payments received after March 14, 2025 will have a $25 per camp week, per child late fee added to the total account balance.
• If 50% of camp tuition is not received by Monday, March 24, 2025, your camp reservation will be cancelled without refund.
Remaining 50% of camp tuition balance must be paid in full by Saturday, May 31, 2025.
This payment is non-refundable and non-transferrable. UltraCamp guidelines as stated above apply.
Late Fee Penalties:
• Payments received after June 2, 2025 will have a $20 per camp week, per child late fee
added to the total account balance.
• Payments received after June 9, 2025 will have a $25 per camp week, per child late fee
added to the total account balance.
• If camp tuition is not paid in full by the end of day on Monday, June 16, 2025, your camp reservation will be cancelled without refund.
EXTENDED DAY
Extended Day is available before camp starting at 7:30 AM and after camp until 5:30 PM. You may sign up for unlimited use (both AM and PM) for $75 per week per child, or pay as you go at a rate of $15 per use. If you are late picking up your child (pickup after 5:30 PM), a fee of $10 will be applied for each day you are late. Failure to comply with picking up your child by 5:30 PM may result in your child's removal from the Extended Day program.
GROUP REQUESTS
Requests must be in before May 1, 2025. Any request for your child to be in a specific group must be sent via email to Maggie Dirrigl: Camp Assistant Director at mdirrigl@theparkschool.org. The Park School Summer Day Camp Admin will do their best to accommodate all group requests. Any requests made after May 1, 2025 are not guaranteed. Camper safety is our number one priority. Our goal is to maintain the quality and safety of our campers and their respective group class sizes. We appreciate your understanding of this matter.
modification policy
Weeks of camp can be modified based on availability. Should you wish to modify your weeks, please email parkcamp@theparkschool.org or call 716-839-1243 x133.