Waupaca, Wisconsin
A summer place shaped by worship, woods, and water.
Camp Cleghorn is a historic Christian community on Columbia Lake, welcoming visitors each summer for Sunday chapel services and preserving the quiet natural beauty of Lost Lake for generations to come.
Sunday Worship
9:15 AM every Sunday
Join us between Memorial Day and Labor Day for a non-denominational service open to residents, guests, and visitors alike.
Historic Community
41 cottages on Columbia Lake
Founded in 1897, Camp Cleghorn continues as a close summer community shaped by faith, family traditions, and shared stewardship.
Permanent Stewardship
Lost Lake will remain wild
The camp protects a 20-acre woodland and wetland area known as Lost Lake — a secluded refuge that will never be developed.
Who We Are
A Christian nonprofit summer community rooted in hospitality, faith, and long-standing family connections going back to 1897.
Where We Are
On Columbia Lake in the Waupaca Chain O' Lakes, surrounded by woods, shoreline, and cottage life.
Why It Matters
Camp Cleghorn is not only a place to gather — it is a place to remember what summer community can feel like when worship, neighborliness, and conservation remain central.
A quieter kind of camp
Built on more than a century of summer life.
Camp Cleghorn began as a Good Templars temperance assembly in 1897 and grew into the close-knit cottage community it is today. The camp is organized as a nonprofit and is focused not on making money, but on leaving a heritage for the future.
All offerings received at Sunday services go to local charities — three of which are dedicated to alleviating the tragedy of drug and alcohol abuse.