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Shanae Maerz
The kids arrive at Camp Cucamonga, where they meet head counselor Marvin (John Ratzenberger). He announces that they are going to have a "Battle of the Bunks". When the girls are going to take showers, Amber makes fun of Lindsey by telling if she takes a shower, it will spoil her image. Because of this Lindsey leaves and goes to her bunk. Then all the kids get ready for the cook off and are suddenly missing and are found by the camp crew. The camp starts to get bad critics. The gang decides to make a rap video. The video becomes a hit, and the camp is visited by a special guest (G. Gordon Liddy). When the Battle of the Bunks begins, Lindsey manages to win all the female activities, while Frankie is overwhelmed begins to hang out with Lindsey more often, causing Amber to grow jealous as a result.
The characters are comedic summer camp archetypes, but when one of the campers runs away after receiving a letter informing her that her parents are getting a divorce, the rest of the campers work together to find her and be her friend in her moment of need.
Water balloons are thrown on a school bus en route to a summer camp. A water balloon flies out the window and hits someone riding on the back of a motorcycle. A man drives a golf cart in reverse off of a dock into a lake. A bully slaps a camper on the back of the head.
Boy campers take turns using a telescope to spy on girl campers in their bikinis. They later sneak under the hut where the girls take showers and attempt to stick a video camera through a grate as the girls are shown showering from the neck up. Aside from this, there are moments capturing the early tween dating scene -- dances, talk of summer camp crushes, triple dates into the woods.
Parents need to know that Camp Cucamonga is a 1990 TV movie featuring almost every tween TV star from the era, plus Jennifer Anniston in her first movie role. The summer camp movie is filled with standard summer camp hijinks -- bumbling camp leaders, self-assured teen camp counselors, and precocious tween campers taking their first awkward steps into dating. In spite of the big hair and the acid-washed denim (to say nothing of the very dated rap montage), the tweens in the movie behave like modern tweens, for better or worse -- there is some name-calling and taunting -- but the movie does try to tackle weightier topics like divorce, acceptance beyond cliques, and the ups and downs of growing up. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
Colonel Marv (John Ratzenberger) runs CAMP CUCAMONGA, and he wants the camp to be perfect when the inspector of Campgrounds of America arrives. His daughter Ava (Jennifer Aniston) wants to date a "one-woman man," and doubts she'll find him among the counselors around her. The boy campers want to go on dates with the girl campers, and the girl campers want to go on dates with the boy campers. And everybody wants to win the end-of-summer camp competitions -- be it softball or pie eating. There is also a rap video, where Jaleel White leads the campers in extolling the virtues of Camp Cucamonga through rap and dance reminiscent of the Young MC classic "Bust a Move."
Beyond the hijinks, this movie does not shy away from weightier topics like divorce and fitting in among your peers, which means that it's not entirely a silly campground romp. But then again, there's an unintentionally hilarious rap montage thrown in the middle, where Jaleel White and the other campers shake their Guess jeans and their side-ponytails like they're in a Kid-N-Play video. Which means, all-in-all, that this movie is a campy camp movie, definitely dated but not without charm.
Besides being Jennifer Aniston's first credited movie role, Camp Cucamonga is a veritable who's-who of late-'80s/early-'90s tween stars representing the hit shows of that time, everything from Full House to The Wonder Years, Head of the Class to Family Matters, to say nothing of the brief appearances of Sherman Helmsley from The Jeffersons and Watergate felon G. Gordon Liddy. All-star cast aside, Camp Cucamonga is essentially standard summer camp fare a la Meatballs, where the authority figures are bumbling, the teen camp leaders cool (in a 1990 mullet-hair kind of way), and the campers themselves are tweens taking their first awkward steps into dating.
With waning daylight, we set up our tents and cook/eat some dinner. The summit of Cucamonga Peak supplies tons of fantastic campsites, some beneath trees, others out in the open among rocks and chaparral. Coco and I set up our tent near a small stand of pines while David and Nihal opt for a spot with more expansive views.
Once the sun has dropped below the horizon, I return to camp and chat with the others as darkness falls. The city lights twinkle in the valley below and a few stars appear above us. Tired from the day, we soon say goodnight and go to bed.
After an hour or so, the warm morning light cools to its usual daytime hue and we stir from our seats to go make breakfast and pack up camp. I enjoy some oatmeal, Coco munches on a savory cake he baked a few nights ago, David slowly consumes a Clif Bar, and Nihal finishes off the last of his PB&J sandwiches. After eating and breaking down camp, we begin the downhill trek back toward civilization.
Want to camp on Cucamonga Peak? There are a good amount of flat camping areas at the summit and plenty of people do an overnight there. In addition to the free permit that I just described (book online here), you will need a (free) California campfire permit. Don't start any open campfires, just use your stove. Again, it's not an official camping spot, and you might be asked to leave, but at this point, many folks do an overnight there, and you'll probably be fine as well.
Camp Cucamonga is a made-for-television movie that aired on NBC on September 23, 1990. While it was a standard rethread of earlier summer camp movies like Poison Ivy (the Michael J. Fox one, not the Drew Barrymore movie), it can best remembered for a couple of things.
When former accountant Marvin Shector (John Ratzenberger) realizes his dream opening a sleep-away camp, he and his wife don't quite fathom exactly what they're getting into. Aside from the everyday chores, his first group of campers and counselors are going to test his patience with their endless pranks and mishaps. While Colonel Marv tries to keep things running smoothly, counselor Roger Burke (Brian Robbins) is doing his best to get to know the female counselors in the most intimate way possible, especially pretty Ava (Jennifer Aniston). But, as always, by the end of the summer, lasting friendships and romances will be forged..
NBC had a thing for summer camp movies with some of the most popular teenage talent at the time. (See Episode 278, Poison Ivy.) Unlike Poison Ivy, Camp Cucamonga wasn't well-remembered, nor was it even that good. Enjoy some stereotypical rapping and a predictable ending with some of your favorite teenage stars from 1990 in this installment.
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I remember watching my VHS tape where I recorded this movie off of TV approximately eleventy billion times when I was a preteen, even being inspired by it enough to pen my own camp-set romance stories in junior high. I imagine it has not aged well and is cheesy as hell now, but I like the memory of the joy it brought me when I was younger.
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Kelly Camp is a backcountry campground set along the Ontario Peak about 1 mile from Icehouse Saddle. It sits on the north slope of Bighorn Peak, and was at one time the highest wilderness resort in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Named after mining prospector John Kelly, who first established the camp in 1905, today the only remains of the resort that the camp eventually grew into are some scattered foundations. The best preserved foundation has the cement floor and porch steps, which the Ontario Peak Trail passes right through.
There is also a fresh water spring located immediately west of the main camp area; visitors should note, however, that this spring is seasonal, varies by recent conditions, and should not be considered a reliable source for anyone making the hike to the camp or surrounding peaks.
Looking for a summer camp? Come spend a wild and wacky summer at Kamp Kookamunga! A place where you can make new friends and create lasting memories. Kamp Kookamunga is packed with awesome traditions like crazy counselors dressed in costumes and sensational skits performed live each Friday. Your weekly adventures will include theme related arts-n-crafts, silly songs, lake/pool swimming trips, goofy games and field trips to far off places, and let's not forget nature hikes exploring our 40-acre wooded park.
We offer 10 weeks of summer camp, with each week having a different theme. You may want to base your selection on what theme your child is interested in or based on when you need an activity for your child. Make a note if you need "Extended Care" for those weeksl. We offer AM Extended Care from 7:00-9:30am and PM Extended Care from 3:30-6:00pm. Plan ahead as these spots fill quickly. You can view information for each week under the "Weekly Themes and Field Trips" button at the bottom of this page.
Please note: If you are trying to get more than one child into camp and have to place them all on the waitlist, we will still call when each individual spot opens up. If you are concerned about taking the spot and the sibling not getting in, please call 425-670-5524 to discuss your options.
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