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The Park Board runs summer youth programs out of its recreation centers, with registration handled online through ActiveNet, in person at any rec center, or by phone with customer service at 612-230-6400. For the lake neighborhoods, the closest hub is Kenwood Community Center at 2101 W. Franklin Ave., which offers youth programming and year-round Rec Plus school-age childcare and can be reached at 612-370-4941 or [email protected].

A neighborhood camp is partly a logistics solution: programming within walking or biking distance spares parents the cross-town shuttle and keeps kids at the parks and rec centers they already know. Families can browse and filter specific summer sessions through the Park Board's activity search.

The Park Board is not the only option. Minneapolis Public Schools community education runs lower-cost classes and camps, including the Kenwood Super Summer Camps based at the Kenwood school site, and private and nonprofit programs fill in specialties from sailing on the chain of lakes to art and sports. Popular sessions fill early, and scholarships and sliding-scale rates exist at the public providers but generally have to be requested. For families new to the area, the local rec center is usually the best first stop, both for its own programming and for word of mouth on which camps neighbors trust.