What makes Roundup River Ranch so extraordinary?
We make campers with life-altering diagnoses feel like ordinary kids. Giggling, laughing, conspiring, arrow-shooting, horseback-riding, art-creating kids. We help campers and their families enjoy the gift of extraordinarily joyful moments, lasting friendships, newfound courage, and memories that remain long after the last s’more is devoured.
Connected by a powerful
commitment to childhood.
We are part of the SeriousFun Children’s Network, a global community of medical specialty camps founded by Paul Newman. He believed that kids with serious illnesses needed a place to “kick back and raise a little hell.” And we couldn’t agree more.
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We want to send a HUGE thank you to our partners, Abercrombie & Fitch! 👏❤️ Not only do they provide our camp t-shirts for free every year, they also support camp in many other ways. One of those ways is offering volunteer time for their employees to volunteer at SeriousFun Children`s Network camps!
This year we had a few incredible A&F employees volunteer for session 1, including Lauren! She is an associate merchant on the Abercrombie adult brand, and was connected with Roundup River Ranch through their partnership with SeriousFun. This was her first year volunteering at camp. Two things inspired her to volunteer. 🫶
“One, obviously, the partnership my company has with SeriousFun and hearing all of the associates that had such a life changing experience. But two, my sister Ashley, she has severe hearing loss and we found out about it probably when she was at the end of elementary school. And it’s been something that, you know, we’ve all lived through as a family. And I think just growing up with someone who faced a silent disability, it was really an eye-opening experience.”
Lauren described her volunteer experience at Roundup River Ranch this week as “life-changing.”
“It truly was such a magical, magical experience being here from the full-time staff to the seasonal staff to all the campers. Everyone comes with such excitement and joy, and I think it is such a good opportunity just to step away from the things that seem super significant in life and just spend time here. You really get re-grounded in it really is just the little things that matter, and some of the things that feel really big really aren’t as big as you think. So it was a phenomenal experience.” 💕
Our medical volunteers aren’t only talented nurses and providers who care for our campers, they’re also expert music video directors! 🎥🎶 Check out this amazing music video they put together for Magical Mayhem week! 🪄 We hope you enjoy it as much as we do, and get a little taste of camp magic. ✨
Magical Mayhem Week! 💜 Defy gravity! Embrace all things magical this week and learn the true meaning of “Camp Magic.” 🪄 During this session, campers entered an enchanting world of sorcery.
Activities throughout the week included collecting magical gems on the Challenge Course, designing witch and wizard hats, a game of Capture the Flag where campers gathered magical potions, and more!! 🔮 It was a week of creative exploration, joyful giggles,
and heartwarming friendships. ✨
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Introducing one of our dedicated board members, Steve! 👋
Dr. Steve Petersen is an Orthopedic Surgeon who retired in 2018, to Gypsum, Colorado. Steve is the oldest of 5 boys who grew up in the Western Suburbs of Chicago, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. As a living donor transplant recipient, an important lesson in life is to treat your brothers well because you never know if you’ll need their kidney. He enjoys the many recreational activities that Colorado provides with his wife Gail and their Golden Retriever, Payton. His personal experience as both a transplant patient and having a grandson with a significant heart condition has enhanced his appreciation for the mission at the Roundup River Ranch.
A graduate of Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, and Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, he performed his Orthopedic training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a Shoulder-Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado, with Dr. Richard Hawkins. He was also selected by the American Shoulder and Elbow Society as a European Traveling Fellow. His career has included military service with the Army Medical Corps at Letterman Army Medical Center, as Director of the Orthopedic Residency Program. His career also included Orthopedic Academic positions at Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, and Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. He retired in 2018 as Division Director of the Shoulder Service and Fellowship Director, at Johns Hopkins.
Thank you, Steve, for your passion and commitment to Roundup River Ranch! ❤️👏
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