History: Camp Woodward

The first Woodward program began in Pennsylvania at our Camp Woodward site (photo above), it was actually a practice makes perfect gymnastics camp that opened in 1970. In 1980 there was a summer Olympics boycott which hurt the business in the United States tremendously. So the genius founders decided to expand into skateboarding and BMX, identifying with the gymnastic qualitys of each. Which since then they have expanded this sector tremendously.

So much in fact that they began to notice the natural jump to winter sports. About 10 years ago, president Gary Ream decided Woodward needed a cold-weather home. He quickly found Copper, a ski resort with style and an interest in having an educational presence. Thus was born the nation's fourth Woodward training camp- the facility stays true to Woodward's tradition in BMX, skate in-line, and tumbling but also expands to ski/ snowboarding. Woodward at Copper is only building on the 40+ years of experience.

The Woodward at Copper Barn Before and After...

 

We built our barn with all the most advanced technology from the Skatelite on all of our skateboarding/BMX areas to Olympic fly-bed trampolines and Snowflex material on all of our ramps. The barn was also built using Green Globes technology in which we strived to use recycled building materials and save as much energy as possible.

With all of these advances no wonder why people keep coming back to Woodward year after year!