The Oldest After Hours Crew. The Fullest Night Experience.
After Hours 3 is the flagship edition of the 20-year nighttime tradition, built for the 16 to 18 year olds who set the tone for the whole After Hours community. By this age, campers are not easing into the night rhythm. They are the ones running it. The schedule runs deeper into the evening, the programming goes harder, and the large-group moments with AH1 and AH2 look different when you are the oldest crew in the room.
The signatures of After Hours are all here. Glow-in-the-dark games. Nighttime High Ropes. The climbing tower under starlight. Late-night challenge courses. The Paramount Sports Complex trip with a sunrise return. And new for 2026, a housing flip that makes AH3 feel unmistakably its own.
Raab Lodge Housing Flip
After Hours 3 moves into Raab Retreat Lodge, the two-story lodge typically reserved for younger programs. The flip is intentional. The oldest crew gets the comfort and community feel of lodge housing, inverting the usual camp norm. Bunk-style beds, in-building restrooms, and a setting that matches the standing of the group.
The Full Nighttime Camp Experience
Signature After Hours programming, re-staged under starlight, headlamps, and torchlight.
Nighttime High Ropes
The Gretna Glen High Ropes course, run after dark. Signature element of the AH3 week. Trained staff, full lighting, and the kind of challenge that only lands right when you have to do it by headlamp.
Glow-in-the-Dark Games
Capture the flag, kickball, tag, and group games you have played a hundred times, now running on glow sticks and black light. At AH3, the energy level is already dialed in by the oldest crew setting the tone.
Late-Night Challenge Course
Team-building challenges that push your cabin to work together in ways daytime programs never quite get to. For AH3, the expectations and the difficulty curve both reflect the age of the group.
Paramount Sports Trip
One night, the whole After Hours program loads up for an evening trip to Paramount Sports Complex in Palmyra. Jumping, bouncing, climbing, and a sunrise return to camp with a hearty breakfast waiting.
Why After Hours 3 Sets the Tone
After Hours works because it respects where teens actually are. The schedule lets campers sleep in. The programming runs when their energy peaks. And at AH3, campers are not just participating in the tradition. They are carrying it. The way AH3 shows up shapes the week for AH1 and AH2 in the shared large-group moments.
For many AH3 campers, this is their last summer on the youth side of the Gretna Glen experience. The program is built to honor that. The signature elements are dialed up. The community is bigger. The pace is real. And Raab Lodge housing gives the oldest crew a setting that matches the moment.
WHERE YOU'LL STAY
New for 2026, After Hours 3 is housed in Raab Retreat Lodge. The two-story lodge has bunk-style housing with restrooms in the building. It feels more like home than traditional cabins, which is the point. The flip from typical camp housing norms marks AH3 as the program for the oldest crew.
This is still a mainsite program. Meals are in the Dining Hall alongside the other After Hours groups, and large-group programming pulls the full AH community together multiple nights of the week.
WHAT PARENTS SHOULD KNOW
After Hours 3 runs primarily at night. Bedtime extends deeper into the evening than AH1 or AH2. Staff are specifically trained for older-teen nighttime programming, and supervision reflects both the age of the group and the elements involved (High Ropes at night, off-site transportation, etc.).
Gretna Glen is ACA-accredited, meeting over 300 health, safety, and quality standards. Staff are Ministry Safe and UMC Risk Management trained. The Paramount Sports trip is fully supervised, with return transportation and breakfast back at camp included in the program cost.
WHO THIS PROGRAM IS FOR
- Teens 16 to 18 ready for the full After Hours experience at its deepest
- Returning AH1 and AH2 campers stepping into the oldest crew
- Rising seniors looking for a last, fullest Gretna Glen youth week
- Teens who want to set the tone, not follow it