Specialty Summer Camps in San Francisco.
14 specialty camps in San Francisco. Median week: $1,495; range $750–$2,495.
Specialty camps — the long tail in San Francisco that don't fit the traditional / STEM / sports / arts buckets — cover everything from culinary to skateboarding to filmmaking to debate. They tend to be smaller, more expensive per week, and more variable in quality.
Top 14 camps
- Enterprise for Youth - Paid Internships · San Francisco · Ages 16–18
- Galileo - Twin Peaks/Noe Valley - CITs · Noe Valley · Ages 13–16 · $440/week
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- YMCA of San Francisco - Buchanan YMCA - STEAM Camp · Western Addition · Ages 5–11
- Tinkering School - Summer Day Camp · San Francisco · Ages 5–16 · $750/week
- Summer Search · Bay Area, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle · Ages 14–18
- Summer Culinary - San Francisco (Residential, Savory) · campusSF · Ages 12–18 · $2495/week
- Summer Culinary - San Francisco (Residential, Pastry/Baking) · campusSF · Ages 12–18 · $2495/week
- Summer Culinary - San Francisco (Day, Savory/Pastry) · campusSF · Ages 12–18 · $1495/week
↘ What to look for
The smaller the niche, the more the instructor matters — ask who's running it and what they do the other 50 weeks of the year. Watch for camps that brand themselves around a hot topic (coding, podcasting, robotics) but staff with general-purpose summer counselors. The right specialty week leaves the kid with a real artifact (a film, a recipe book, a podcast episode) — not a participation certificate.