UCPA
Sports colos for kids and teens at more than 90 destinations, from a first 3-day stay to ski weeks, with riding lessons at its Vincennes stables in between.
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About
This French sports-holiday association has run colos, the residential camps French kids go to in the school breaks, for 50 years. Kids and teens pick from more than 50 sports, from skiing and surfing to riding and tennis, taught by state-qualified instructors.
Closer to home, it runs year-round riding lessons at the Bayard equestrian center in the Bois de Vincennes, plus short first-time colos for younger kids.
After-school activities
Camps
UCPA Bayard Summer Riding Camp in the Bois de Vincennes
A proper riding school week inside a Paris woodland park.
UCPA Ma 1ère Colo: 3-Day First Sleepaway Camp in Pontoise
Built around a child's first nights away from home.
UCPA Full Tennis Sleepaway Camp in Bois-le-Roi
Daily tennis on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest.
UCPA Beginner Pony Sleepaway Camp at Bois-le-Roi
A sleepaway week where kids learn to ride from scratch.