Summer Day Camp

Y Day Camp utilizes many areas of Toronto Islands green space and waterfront to deliver outdoor adventure programs. 

Junior campers (6–8 year olds) take the Wards Island Ferry and walk to the home base at Snake Island where they participate in a variety of outdoor activities on the large grassy fields with access to waterfront and biking paths. This is a fully outdoor location. Private washrooms and changing trailers will be provided for changing before swimming in the Y owned pool. 

Senior & Leadership campers (9–15 year olds) take the Centre Island Ferry and walk to the home base near St Andrew’s by the Lake Church where they participate in a variety of activities on the large grassy fields, with access to waterfront and biking paths. This is a fully outdoor location. Public washrooms and changeroom tents will be used before swimming at the Centre Island Beach. 

Please ensure you come dressed for the weather as our programs operate outside rain or shine! 

Campers meet their counselors at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal at the bottom of Bay Street before taking the ferry to the Island. Camp operates Monday–Friday from 9 am–4 pm. Bussing is available for a discounted rate of $75/week round trip until March 31.

Summer Day Camp programs range from arts and science to sports, swimming, leadership, outdoor adventures and more! Registration for Summer 2025 is now open.

About Day Camp

About Toronto Island Y Day Camp

Outdoor Centre programs are available during June and September months on the island! We welcome elementary and secondary school groups, college and universities, and other groups of 10-150 participants. Programming is led by YMCA Cedar Glen Outdoor Centre staff and tailored to achieve your objectives whether it is building leadership skills, achieving curriculum expectations or selecting activities that engage your participants. Please contact for rates, available dates and any questions.

*New* for Fall 2023 – Open Outdoors

The YMCA Open Outdoors program is designed to ignite a love of the outdoors by offering accessible skill building activities to empower equity deserving communities to be comfortable in the outdoors. Equity deserving communities are those historically under-resourced and under-represented in outdoor education and includes Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, and disabled communities. In addition to these groups, the program also aims to engage Indigenous youth and families recognizing the specific historical colonial inequities tied to land access and the outdoors that has led to Indigenous underrepresentation in outdoor education.