Camp Wamp

It's about what you CAN do! Adventure. Optimism. Self-reliance. Ambition.

At Camp Wamp children with physical disabilites enjoy a sleep-away week of camping under the stars, and experience everything the outdoors has to offer.

05/08/2025

03/27/2025

03/14/2025

Today is Rare Disease Day— and it matters to the Cerebral Palsy community more than you might think.

Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common lifelong physical disability, yet many of its root causes—including genetic syndromes, metabolic disorders, certain infections, and perinatal stroke—are classified as “rare.” This leaves many individuals with CP caught between two systems: research and healthcare designed for either common disabilities or rare diseases—but rarely both.

At the Cerebral Palsy Foundation, we believe “rare” should never mean invisible. Yet:

⚠️ Too many families wait too long for an accurate diagnosis and treatment options.
⚠️ Too many children lack access to critical early interventions that could change their futures.
⚠️ Too many adults face a lifetime of medical uncertainty.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We need urgent investment in early detection, intervention, and lifelong care—because everyone deserves access to the best possible future.

05/09/2024

My annual May post

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Teachers,
When you’re at graduation this year and your coworkers are crowded around the bubbly, highest achieving students that have all the chords, and were in all the clubs, make a point to find the student with the IEP that rarely spoke, struggled with your class, and hit them with the most inspirational words you can pull from the well. That student has just climbed their Everest. -author unknown

05/07/2024

https://scoop.upworthy.com/son-surprises-dad-who-has-cerebral-palsy-with-a-wholesome-video-and-his-reaction-is-priceless

The doting son wanted to convey how great his father was to him despite suffering from cerebral palsy for years.

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255 Cal Road
Soda Springs, CA
95728

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+18003816891

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https://www.campwamp.org/

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Our outdoor programs started in August of 2004, when we welcomed our first 24 campers. The organization has grown over the years, and thus far we have sponsored 250 children at 5 camping sites. Camp Wamp, located near North Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras, has proven to be an inspiration for campers to often go on to college, have a family, and live a prosperous life. The new Camp Wamp has a 9 acre lake with native brook trout and 129 acres of remote rugged wilderness. Camp encourages teamwork, and encourages campers with physical disabilities to experience the great outdoors and create memories that last a lifetime. At Camp Wamp children enjoy a sleep-away week of camping under the stars, and experience everything the outdoors has to offer. Campers enjoy a variety of outdoor activities including; fishing, canoeing, singing around the camp fire, hiking, making new friends, participating in survival challenges, and much more.

The Stephen J Wampler Foundation the organization that runs Camp Wamp was founded by Stephen Wampler. Stephen has a pretty severe form of Cerebral Palsy due to an incident at birth, and uses an electric wheelchair to get around. Stephen was born to extraordinary parents who taught him that while his disability was permanent, he owed it to himself to charge forward and to have a great life with goals and expectations for himself. When he was 9, his parents sent him to a wilderness summer camp in the high Sierras of California. Stephen attended the camp for 9 summers until he aged out and went off to college to graduate from UC Davis with a Environmental Engineering degree. Three years later Stephen met and married his love of his life, Elizabeth. Four years later they welcomed their first child, Charlotte, followed a year later by son Joseph.

Stephen is now a family man and an Environmental Engineer, but he couldn’t ignore the thought of reopening the camp that he had attended. It had closed down a few years earlier and Steve decided he wanted to reopen it so kids like him could attend and learn about nature as he had. Stephen Wampler slowly started raising money, and to his great surprise, he got overwhelming support in the form of mass donations from the local Coronado, CA community as well as friends from the Bay Area of San Francisco.

Camp Wamp opened a new facility in the High Sierras of California that will be fully operational in the summer of 2018 for children ages (10-18) years old with physical disabilities. We also offer a family camp, available for adults and children of all ages with physical disabilities. This new facility has been a dream of Stephen's for years, it is an accessible place in the High Sierras for children with physical disabilities to come from all over the world and enjoy the great outdoors. Stephen wants to give Wampers the same memories and experiences he had as a kid with the great outdoors. Camp Wamp is coming alive! Come join our journey!