Hunting camp Fees...what does your camp charge?

[scalder27]

Looking at starting a camp and wanted to get an idea of what people are charging for the year at there camp? Enough to cover taxes? improvements? or just do a few work weekends? any info would be great also wondering about structure...I think its easier with one owner and members having a yearly membership with everyone having a vote on certain things...what do you think?

[blasted_saber]

Family pays nothing, we do the work during the hunts and have a couple work weekends a year.

Non-family pays $90/day. Gets you three hearty meals a day and a bed to sleep in. Also covers butchering fees.

Its enough to cover insurance, taxes, small improvements and of course the food costs.

[terrym]

Our camp is equally owned by 3 of us. We charge nothing to guests but am thinking we need to start some kind of contribution from them.

[scalder27]

I was thinking if your a member 500 for the year plus two work weekends (beer weekends lol) would be fair enough to keep everything going?

[seabast]

40$/day for everyone including the owners. Include everything (food, sleep, butcher.....) but booze.
We are all friend or family so helping has never be an issue (building addition, gathering firewood, you name it...).

[bushman]

Members =$150.00 week. This includes all groceries, mix, insurance on camp gas for generator and ofah yearly renewal. Byob and gas for 4 wheeler.

Non members= $200.00 week. Includes all they can eat. Byob and gas for 4 wheeler.

We do our own meat processing.

[trimmer21]

We have ten members and all fees for lodging (cottage rental includes gas for BBQ,generator) and groceries are shared equally. Any alcohol,gas and special items required by members are their own responsibilty. We can go up for a week,eat like pigs,live like kings,be comfortable,warm and dry and have a whale of a time for around $225 each,not including license fees or booze and gas to get there. Geez,I got the itch already.

[Fox]

I guess it depends on the group of guys. Ideally you all split everything and that is the end of it, but you have to consider that work at the camp, or on the camp if owned by group members, is generally not split.

What I wanted to do at our camp was have a set daily cost and allow the guys to get their daily cost back based on days of work during the week. Maybe something like 1 work day equals 1 hunt day or something like that. This helps out the guys who are a little strapped for cash and helps you when you need to do renos or any other camp tasks.

I ended up working my butt off all year, every month to have everything ready for the hunting week and then during the week watched a few people sit on their butt and do nothing, not even the dishes because they "paid" to be there, like I did nothing to contribute.

Camps are complicated, it is like having room mates, if you have good ones you are in good shape, bad ones ruin a hunt.

[TPM]

I charge nothing. We're a small camp of about 6 or 7. Everyone contributes food, brings their own booze and pulls their weight throughout the week. Everyone has also put in their share of sweat equity in terms of off season work and donated materials. It worked well for us for almost 20 years.

[GW11]

Camps are complicated, it is like having room mates, if you have good ones you are in good shape, bad ones ruin a hunt.

I charge nothing. We're a small camp of about 6 or 7. Everyone contributes food, brings their own booze and pulls their weight throughout the week. Everyone has also put in their share of sweat equity in terms of off season work and donated materials. It worked well for us for almost 20 years.

Wise words and this is how we do it now. We are a friend/family group of 5 or 6 that split off from a family camp that was established back in the mid-late 1800's. There was always tension and friction between these guys and those guys, some pulled their weight, some freeloaded on the sweat and money of others. 100+ years and it started to sour I suppose. We broke off and started our own in the manner that TPM describes and all has been well for the last 5 years or so. The old camp has since been sold, I guess maybe there was nobody left to do the work.