There are a number of modern-day Long Island day camps that claim to offer a trip a day. Once such camp that has been advertised recently is the Summer Adventures Day Camp Travel Program, which features trips to Mets games, the Splish Splash water park, and other fun places. Other travel camps even offer occasional out-of-state trips to such places as Washington, D.C., Hershey Park in Pennsylvania, and Great Adventure in New Jersey.
But before any of these camps were around, there was Young Traveler's Day Camp, which this author attended in the summer of 1972.
Under the direction of Mr. Alan Lazarus, Young Travelers offered at least one major field trip every week to such places as the Bronx Zoo, the Museum of Natural History, the New York Aquarium, and others. Campers spent three days a week at Jones Beach and went to Belmont Lake State Park every Friday for a hot dog barbecue.
Young Travelers Fashions
and Uniforms
One alumna of Young Travelers, Cindie Molnar, sent me a photo of herself from around 1972. This photo shows the camp t-shirt:
