Summer camp registration open for Tenoroc Youth Conservation Center

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is bringing a new slate of youth programing to Lakeland this summer.

The FWC's Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network will host a youth summer camp for children ages 8 to 14 at the Tenoroc Public Use Area, 3760 Tenoroc Mine Road, from late June to July. It will be the first series of events for the state Youth Conservation to be built in Lakeland, the fifth in the state.

The camp will offer four weekly sessions: June 26-30, July 3-7, July 10-14, and July 24-28. It will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, offering opportunities to fish, kayak, explore wildlife and participate in archery. The cost is $120 per week.

Callie Shaffer, FWC's newly appointed director of Tenoroc Youth Conservation Center, said the camp's activities will be more expansive than in the past.

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"We want to try to get as many kids involved as possible," she said.

The summer camp will utilize Tenoroc's existing buildings. Shaffer said the state has plans to construct new facilities specifically for the Youth Conservation Center in the upcoming months. It would make Lakeland the fifth site of the state's new Youth Conservation Centers Network after Apollo Beach, Ocala, Tallahassee, and West Palm Beach.

Register online at fyccn.org/tenoroc-youth-conservation-center-3. For more information, contact Shaffer at Callie.Shaffer@myFWC.com.

This article originally appeared on The Ledger: Tenoroc Youth Conservation Center offering summer camps