Focus Hall
The centerpiece of Skyline Camp and Conference Center is Focus Hall. Built in 1993, this 6,400-square-foot building is fully winterized, is bright and airy and offers a spectacular view from the highest point in Lapeer County, Michigan. Focus contains 14 bedrooms, accommodating up to 64 persons with full and extra-long twin beds. It has centrally located modern tile baths, a large meeting room seating up to 125, with snack kitchen, fireplace and piano. Focus has handicapped accessibility.
The Lodge
The main house for what was once a country estate, the Lodge is near Focus Hall, at the edge of a hardwood forest. It is fully winterized, has a homey ambiance and a sweeping view from the extra-large meeting room. Constructed in 1953, the 5,600-square-foot Lodge is on two levels and has six bunkrooms for up to 40 persons, plus showers and restrooms. Focal point of the large meeting room is a massive stone fireplace, with snack kitchen and piano on the same level.
Kitchen & Dining Hall (K&D)
The dining hall is only 50 yards from the Lodge and Focus Hall. Skyline’s experienced kitchen staff prepares hearty, tasty, home-style buffet meals that can be tailored to the group in residence. The dining hall can seat up to 90 in two dining rooms that can be used for added meeting space between meals. The K&D is handicapped-accessible.
Summer Housing (Cabins)
Situated in one of several forests on the Skyline property are 11 rustic cabins, most of which can sleep 8, some 10, campers. Each cabin has electric lighting, a power outlet and an electric fan. They are well screened and ventilated. These cabins are generally in use during the summer camp season.
The Pavilion
This 1,944-square-foot (54 feet by 36 feet) open-air structure, with its massive gothic-arched supports, was completed in 2002. With an all-weather concrete floor, electricity and drinking fountain, it provides an excellent three-season refuge from inclement weather and the hot sun. It is adjacent to a regulation-sized soccer field suitable for large games.
Swimming Pool and Pool House
Open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Skyline pool has served campers for more than three decades and during the summer camp season is always supervised. The 30-by-50-foot pool is carefully monitored for safety and cleanliness. A pool house at one end of the pool has changing rooms, showers and toilet facilities.
Bath House
Skyline’s shower and toilet facilities for summer campers are conveniently located near the 11 rustic cabins and adjacent to the athletic field. This contemporary building, renovated in 1995, is flanked by two large, open-air porches suitable for camp-craft activities.
Other Features and Facilities
Skyline’s 156 acres contain many other features: an amphitheater-style outdoor chapel, soccer-sized recreation field, sports court for basketball, tennis and other ball games, innovative labyrinth, archery range, wilderness campsite with new Conestoga Wagon for overnight camping, hiking, fitness and prayer trails, team-building challenge course, pond for canoeing, sledding hill, two campfire areas, one guarded by hand-carved totem poles; and 100-year-old farmstead with garage/workshop and residence for the Skyline director.