For decades, Camp One Step has been helping children with their cancer journeys — and changing their lives
Driving around looking for a parking space at Camp One Step can be a bit of a challenge because at every turn, youths can be found participating in camp activities.
The breeze off Geneva Lake eases the exertion of walking up and down the hills and in between wood buildings that call to mind fraternity houses, but are actually gathering places and lodge-style housing for campers. To the right of the main road, campers ages 13 to 16 have pitched tents and are prepping dinner to enjoy outside. Meanwhile campers as young as 7 and as old as 19 are dining on hamburgers, fries, salad, cookies and Dilly bars in the dining hall to the left, where lost items are found and returned to their owners after a public, loud and funny camp song is sung by adult volunteers.
That’s just the first day of a free, annual two-week summer adventure at Camp One Step — a place on the shores of Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, where pediatric cancer patients get to be a kid again, in nature, with other kids on their cancer journeys.
Identical twins Bailey and Lily Dove,
