Welcome to Camp Tonkawa
Welcome to our newly redesigned website. We hope you will appreciate the new look and the new ease of navigation around the site.
Camp Tonkawa is a Not For Profit Nature Awareness Learning Center for Children and Adults that was founded by the Holtzman Family. The camp gives a great "hands on" experience in the great outdoors. It is located on a 35 acre tract of land about an hour drive north of Dallas Texas.
We offer a great range of classes and camps for all ages. Check out our Calendar for our upcoming schedule of classes and camps. We also can create camps and classes for groups as needed.
Our mission is to reconnect mankind with nature with our "hands on" teaching of ancient Native American skills of nature awareness and primitive wilderness survival.
The Camp Tonkawa property is a certified wildlife refuge. Our woods of oak and junipers have plenty of trails, a small creek, fishing pond, swimming pond, pasture, organic garden, barn and a long house.
Camp Tonkawa News
Autumn 2008 getting off to a great start!
Our Fall Organic Gardening Day Camp was held on the first day of Autumn, September 24. We enjoyed the perfect weather while foraging, weeding, hoeing, planting and watering in the garden. The kids went home with seeds, plants, praying mantises, and chicken eggs. Moms went home with visions of their own gardens to provide healthy, nutritious foods for their families. Hope more will join us for our Spring Organic Gardening Day Camp, held around the first day of spring.
Primitive Survival Camps are going great! People of all ages preparing for what may happen in this crazy world. Had Boy Scout Troop 815 along with a group of men from a Tae Kwon Do school for the August camp. Have families coming from Austin and San Antonio for the Combo Camp in October. Hope you'll join us.
A custom made day for the Homeschoolers East's "Classic Family Book Club", September 19. After they read Little Britches by Ralph Moody, the group of children, came out to do and see many things about the horses that they had read about in the book. Things that normally happen at Camp Tonkawa's Horsemanship Day Camp, like currycombing and brushing the horses, identify parts of a saddle, leading, haltering and riding horses just like the boy, Ralph does in the story. As they put it, "The day with April and her horses really made the experiences from the book come to life! Thank you, April, for giving us a wonderful day, for your flexibility and your graciousness in working with our group." After a morning with the horse, the group picnicked and explored the trails in our woods. We welcome your group out to our camp, we are willing to custom design a day for you.
Got our first chicken egg, October 4. Boy, have they grown since Earth Day in April. 
They should be producing in full force about Thanksgiving, and we will be ready to sell eggs from the 33 hens. They are brown eggs!
All of our web pages are printer friendly. When you print a page about a class, you will be able to print just the information about the class. The navigation menus will not print.