Camp Belknap  YMCA Camp Belknap is an all-boys summer resident camp in Tuftonboro, New Hampshire, on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. Founded in 1903, on Winnipesaukee's Timber Island, in the shadow of Belknap Mountain, its likely namesake. Relocated to Tuftonboro in 1907, this boys' camp was owned and operated by the New Hampshire YMCA until the demise of the state Y in 1996. It is now an independent non-profit affiliated with the national Y. Belknap celebrated its 100th year in operation in 2003, making it one of the oldest continuously operating camps in the United States. Camp Belknap boasts more than of playfields, courts and forested land, much of it held as a conservation easement; plus one mile of lakefront property. Belknap's 31 activities include archery and riflery, tennis, soccer, baseball, basketball, and lacrosse as well as ropes course, studio art and nature/environment. Water activities include swimming, sailing, and waterskiing. Some games, such as Donut Ball and Bizou Ball, are original creations of Camp Belknap. The Nature program still awards a Wantonoit Club certificate for identifying 100 or more natural objects. This program, begun in 1910 at Camp Belknap by leader H.W. Brown, soon to become a professor of rhetoric at Colby College, spread to scores of US camps and even abroad. Coming from all corners of the country (and the world), Belknappers are aged 8 to 16 years old and live in cabins clustered by age in five divisions of six cabins each, Cadets, Juniors, Middlers, Besserers, and Seniors. Each cabin contains nine or ten campers and one cabin leader, and potentially a cabin leader in training. At Camp Belknap the title 'Leader' is preferred over the word 'Counselor'. For more than two decades, every cabin leader and every program head has come up through the ranks as a Belknap camper. Each summer, the Gene Clark Jr. Senior Recognition selects next year's Leader Corps from Belknap's oldest division of campers, who are then mentored and trained to form the next generation of cabin leaders. Longevity is the rule rather than exception for campers and leaders, as noted on the large green and white longevity honor boards, also called Timi-Hi Awards, that hang in Conlon Lodge, the main all-purpose building constructed in 1930 overlooking the waterfront.