What Summer Camps & After-School Programs Cost in Colorado (2026)
Camp season is a budgeting problem before it's a scheduling one, and most cost figures online are modelled estimates. These aren't. Every number below is computed from a price a Colorado provider published on its own page — 1311 published prices across the 5964 camp sessions and after-school programs Junely tracked for 2026. Medians and typical ranges, with the sample size beside every figure.
Summer day camps — price per week
Across Junely's full 2026-season catalog, 848 day-camp listings published a price that converts to a weekly rate without guessing. Sessions that have since ended keep the price they published — a price doesn't stop being a 2026 price when the session ends. The middle 50% column is the interquartile range: half of published prices fall inside it.
By region
| Region | Median | Middle 50% | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Metro | $324/wk | $275–$458 | 402 |
| Mountains | $250/wk | $125–$400 | 238 |
| Colorado Springs | $190/wk | $135–$350 | 95 |
| Boulder | $350/wk | $260–$495 | 85 |
| Fort Collins / Northern | $299/wk | $235–$399 | 28 |
By activity
| Activity | Median | Middle 50% | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Activity | $295/wk | $188–$389 | 261 |
| STEM | $333/wk | $245–$559 | 135 |
| Sports | $255/wk | $172–$435 | 134 |
| Outdoors & Adventure | $460/wk | $360–$649 | 78 |
| Visual Arts | $280/wk | $260–$298 | 100 |
| Dance | $300/wk | $235–$350 | 67 |
| Music | $135/wk | $135–$225 | 11 |
| Academic | $399/wk | $350–$500 | 47 |
| Theater | $450/wk | $325–$595 | 13 |
By age
A program counts in every band it accepts, so bands overlap.
| Age band | Median | Middle 50% | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preschool (3–5) | $300/wk | $235–$399 | 366 |
| Elementary (6–11) | $300/wk | $235–$435 | 711 |
| Middle school (12–14) | $325/wk | $235–$456 | 327 |
| High school (15–18) | $319/wk | $135–$475 | 101 |
Overnight camps are a different product and are kept out of the tables above. Across 143 published prices, the median residential week is $850 (middle 50%: $475–$1,200).
After-school programs — price per month
Most Colorado after-school listings are enrichment programs — dance, chess, a sport, an instrument — meeting once or twice a week, not daily 3–6pm care. The figures below price that kind of program. 320 listings publish a price with a billing period (per month, week, semester, or school year), from the fall 2026 schedules captured June 25 – September 29, 2026.
By region
| Region | Median | Middle 50% | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Metro | $103/mo | $52–$150 | 63 |
| Mountains | $125/mo | $95–$134 | 109 |
| Colorado Springs | $110/mo | $88–$110 | 59 |
| Boulder | $80/mo | $67–$105 | 48 |
| Fort Collins / Northern | $90/mo | $71–$108 | 41 |
By activity
| Activity | Median | Middle 50% | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-Activity | $100/mo | $25–$178 | 43 |
| Sports | $109/mo | $84–$150 | 65 |
| Visual Arts | $90/mo | $80–$94 | 20 |
| Dance | $108/mo | $88–$134 | 102 |
| Music | $112/mo | $78–$173 | 17 |
| Academic | $63/mo | $47–$149 | 31 |
| Theater | $105/mo | $70–$110 | 41 |
By age
A program counts in every band it accepts, so bands overlap.
| Age band | Median | Middle 50% | n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preschool (3–5) | $90/mo | $70–$120 | 101 |
| Elementary (6–11) | $100/mo | $73–$126 | 188 |
| Middle school (12–14) | $108/mo | $68–$134 | 133 |
| High school (15–18) | $67/mo | $50–$110 | 54 |
Coverage
Junely never estimates a price, so coverage is partial and stated plainly. Of the 2199 day-camp sessions in the 2026 season catalog, 1289 (59%) publish a dollar figure and 848 (39%) state it in a form that converts to a weekly rate; only those are counted. Of the 3441 after-school programs, 1093 (32%) publish a dollar figure and 320 (9%) publish a billing period; only those are counted. Everything else — per-session prices with no stated frequency, bare totals with no readable duration, prices quoted in more than one unit, “from $X” minimums — is excluded, not guessed at.
Methodology
Camps: “per week” prices count as published; “per day” is multiplied by 5; a bare price attached to a single 3–9-day session counts as one week; multi-week totals are excluded as ambiguous. After-school: “per week” ×4.33, “per semester” ÷4.5 (Aug–Dec), “per school year” ÷9. Price ranges use the midpoint. Each cell shows the median and interquartile range of its listings' normalized prices; any cell with fewer than 5 prices is not shown. n counts listings, so a provider with several sessions appears more than once. Camp figures cover the full 2026 season catalog: still-running sessions are re-checked daily (last check September 29, 2026), ended sessions keep the price they published while listed. After-school prices come from the June 25 – September 29, 2026 capture. This page is recomputed from the catalog on every nightly refresh.
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