One CIT, Junior Counselor, and Senior Counselor is assigned to each Cabin.Īlmost all of the facilities are relatively new at Camp Mac with only a few surviving ones such as the Canteen, remodeled.Ĭampers participate in a mix of activities on a daily basis. Junior and Senior Counselors run the courses and Activities offered at Camp Mac. If they do their job well, they can return and become Junior counselors and so forth until they become Senior Counselors. CITs help out with their counselor superiors and help lead their assigned group to their next activity. At the end of their last summer term, sixteen campers, eight girls and eight boys are chosen to become CITs (Counselors in Training). At Camp Mac there is a limited enrollment of a combined 734 boys and girls.Ī large number of the staff are adults while the other half are returning campers. The Campers at Camp Mac are students of good standard who have completed second grade through ninth grade.

Lower lake was built first and then followed by Upper Lake which was named for the water level. Throughout the years, many renovations were made to the camp including two man-made lakes which were funded by selling property. The name for the camp was given by the camp's first campers in honor of the founder. McBride in 1948 because of his conviction that not everything a child needed to know to become a successful, productive adult could be taught in the classroom. The Camp Mac was founded by the Superintendent of Talladega County Schools Mr. The camp started out as a CCC camp but was taken over by the McBride Family. A road that leads up to the peak of Cheaha Mountain separates the two. These lakes are known as upper and lower lake for their differences in water level. Camp Mac is located near two manmade lakes which were created by the earlier staff of camp mac in order to give campers some water activities. Camp Mac is located 1,000 feet above sea level inside the Talladega National Forest and just few miles from the top of Mount Cheaha.

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