Frequently Asked Questions

  We are open Monday through Friday but will accommodate weekend trips by request. Please contact us for available dates and more information on weekend retreats.  

 We can accommodate approximately 260 students on a single day.  And we have sleeping room for up to 300 people.

Yes. We would be happy to send you a price quote. Please contact us for information at 956-204-0036, or for a faster response, email registrar@camprio.org 

 No, Camp RIO does not provide transportation for outdoor education trips. Please speak with your school's transportation department about bus transportation.  We would be happy to discuss alternative options with you if you do not have a bus.  Call us (956) 204-0036

 Yes. Most students with disabilities will be able to participate. We even have “off-road" wheelchairs if needed. We are not responsible for transferring students with wheelchairs into canoes, so a trained chaperone will need to accompany the student(s) at all times.  

  If you have a question or concern about your groups medical care while at camp, please reach out directly to our camp nurse at Nurse@camprio.org . This is the most efficient way to get in touch. 

 Yes, many of our indoor facilities are air-conditioned, including our cabins.  

  Yes! We have a private room where you can go to take care of this need.  

Parents are not able to come onto the camp property with the field trips without being cleared by the visiting school.  Upon arrival, they would also need to submit to a background check.  Please ask them not to follow the buses.  However, they are welcome to attend any of our community events with the whole family, or they may schedule a tour before their child's field trip.  Please have them contact us for more information.   

  We consider rain a beautiful part of being outdoors! We will not go indoors unless it becomes unsafe for us to be outside. We also enjoy the occasional cold weather, but we do have indoor activities if the weather becomes intolerable. We do encourage you to be prepared to stay outside for all weather.  

Outdoor environments like ours will expose visitors to the potential for bug bites. We avoid walking in tall grasses but we cannot completely avoid all exposure.  Feel free to bring bug spray as well as sunscreen to protect yourself.
If you feel the need to create a permission slip to include authorization for bug spray application in the event mosquitoes are really bad, it will be up to the individual school. It is really weather-dependent if they are a problem (cold and/or windy weather usually means no mosquito problem). 

      We can make accommodations as necessary. This decision is up to each individual campus.