The space to lead. The freedom to be led.

The deep woods cradling Golden Valley Camp offer the Space and Freedom for your group to experience the peace, serenity, and spiritual renewal found in Christ.

GVC has the Accommodations for your next retreat or youth camp. Not sure how to put a retreat together? Contact us and we will help you make it happen!

Learn more about Golden Valley Camp

About Us

Golden Valley Camp was built to provide a suitable setting to aid campers to come to a full knowledge of God.

Delbert and Phillis Franklin camp managers since 1997
Tall pines and oaks surround Golden Valley Camp

Our campsite is conveniently located in the beautiful foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains about an hour’s drive from Sacramento. Our wilderness facility occupies forty secluded acres of tall pines and heritage oaks just outside the historic California gold rush community of Volcano. At twilight enjoy the forest solitude broken only by the soft rippling sound of Golden Gate Creek as it runs through the campsite.

Golden Valley Camp is designed to support your programs. We can accommodate up to a hundred campers. Our eleven cabins are appropriately clustered and separated to meet your needs for lodging and supervision of mixed gender groups. We have miles of walking trails with benches sprinkled here and there to provide space for quiet meditation and prayer.

Our professional staff will meet your day-to-day needs for dining, accommodations and gathering space so that you can focus on your ministries. Our facilities include sleeping cabins, a dining hall, off hours snack shack, conference center, physically challenging team-building obstacle course, large recreation areas and an outdoor chapel all in a forest setting to refresh your body, mind, soul and spirit. You and your group will surely come to understand why our Gold Miners’ Memories of Home Fire Pit and Fellowship Circle often provides the fondest images of your visit to Golden Valley Camp.

For additional information, please contact our Camp Managers, Delbert and Phillis Franklin by mail PO Box 84, Volcano, CA 95689; by telephone toll free: (888) 290-7331 or (209) 296-4632.

Meet the staff behind Golden Valley Camp

“Thank you for your service so that we could have such a great, transforming and joyful time. See you again next year!"

Audrey J.