Camp Name: Cottontail Ranch
Camp Focus:
Summer:
Cottontail Ranch offers young people an opportunity  to live together in small groups, forming valuable friendships, sharing responsibilities and opinions, improving communication skills, playing esteem-building games, developing lifelong hobbies and fun-lots of fun!
Winter:
Come and experience the serenity and inspiration of a mountain wilderness where you can rediscover the beauty of nature. Make your next retreat, seminar, and meeting or school program an enjoyable and memorable one.
Owner: Pepperdine University
Director: Lynn Pedroza-summer camp~Kathy Edwards-retreats and conferences
Address: 1666 Las Virgenes Canyon Road, Calabasas.  CA  91302
Phone Number: (818) 880-3700 or (800) 700-CAMP
Fax Number: (818) 880-3714
Email: Info@cottontailranchcamp.com
Website: www.cottontailranchcamp.com
Camp Type: A children's resident camp (for children ages 6-16) during the summer months and a Group Retreat and Conference Center during the academic year.
Camp Season: Summer camp:  June 25-August 19, 2006 - Retreat and Conference Center-during the school year.
Setting: Cottontail Ranch, secluded in Southern California scenic Santa Monica Mountains, near Malibu, California, exemplifies nature's gifts to camp life with blue sky, starry nights, and a medley of trees, plants and wildlife .  Its friendly neighbors are Malibu Creek State Park, the mountains and the seashore.
Gender: Coed
Camp Capacity: 250
Pricing: Summer camp rates: 2 week session $2200.00-Pricing for stays up to 8 weeks, please contact us.   For our Group Retreat and Conference rates and availability, please contact us.
Notes: You are invited to attend one of open houses held the 2 nd and 4 th Sundays of February. March, April, and May from 1:00 p.m.-3:00p.m., or you may want to call for an appointment Monday through Friday, 8:00a.m.to 5:00p.m.  Our CD_ROM or video is an ideal way to acquaint yourself and child(ren) with the many aspects of the Cottontail experience.

Our summer campers have an opportunity to begin or build on their skills in the following activities:  archery, arts and crafts, basketball, beach programs, campfires, dances, hiking, horseback riding (Western and English), jet-skiing, Junior Lifeguard training, mini-biking, movie viewing, nature study, novelty days, ocean and lake fishing, rappelling, rock climbing, soccer, softball, surfing, swimming, table games, table tennis, talents shows, tennis, tubing, volleyball, wake boarding,  water-skiing, and trips to Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios.  (These trips are optional)  The retreat and conference center facilities include:  Amphitheater, archery, basketball, campfire area, fire pit, outdoor evening activities, hiking trails, ping pong, softball, swimming pool and volleyball.

Pepperdine University acquired Cottontail Ranch in January 1997 with the intention of upholding the wonderful work which its previous owners started in 1958.  A retreat and conference center during the academic year and a children's (ages 6-16) resident summer camp in the summer months, Cottontail has achieved international acclaim, is accredited and inspected by the Members of the American Camp Association and the Western Association of Independent Camps.  The summer staff to summer camper ratio is approximately one credentialed teacher or college student per five campers.

Our Group retreat and Conference Center is ideal for schools, youth and adults groups and outdoor education programs.  We are the appropriate location to hold religious, church, temple, school, civic, and group retreats.  Cottontail Ranch is great for successful management seminars, sales meetings, workshops, staff development programs, overnight retreats, business breakfasts, luncheons and dinners.  Our cabins are winterized, accommodating up to 250 people.  Kitchen facilities are located on the premises with a 300-person capacity dining hall, which is air conditioned and heated.    The retreat and conference center facilities include:  Amphitheater, archery, basketball, campfire area, fire pit, outdoor evening activities, hiking trails, ping pong, softball, swimming pool and volleyball.