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Since 1942, Camp Puh'tok has provided young people and their families with fresh air, engaging outdoor programs, and fun! Now you can celebrate your nuptials and experience the beauty of nature in this unique wedding venue.
Only 20 minutes from Baltimore, and an hour from D.C., Puh’tok is set in the picturesque village of Monkton in Northern Baltimore County, Maryland. Puh’tok’s sixty-seven wooded acres are bordered by the scenic Gunpowder Falls State Park. Exchange vows in a magical outdoor ceremony set among the pines. Or, say "I do," in a romantic indoor ceremony held in our beautiful, light-filled Hacienda, or rustic Thunderbird Lodge. Both venues feature large windows and covered porches and patios that bring the beauty of the outdoors in. Our Lodge features two stone fireplaces and thousands of twinkling lights to set the mood.
Invite your guests to celebrate your love for the entire weekend. With multiple indoor and outdoor spaces, Puh’tok can host your rehearsal dinner on Friday, ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception on Saturday, and brunch on Sunday, all in one unique location! On-site lodging accommodates up to 186 guests in heated and air-conditioned cabins. Our friendly and professional staff are ready to assist you and can help customize your experience so that your wedding weekend is uniquely you.
Puh’tok is an exclusive weekend wedding package venue. For 2025, our $10,000 wedding weekend package provides full access to our entire property including all dining, meeting, and lodging spaces from 2PM Friday through 5PM Sunday. Schedule a tour today by contacting info@camppuhtok.com
We are an exclusive weekend wedding package venue- one flat rate gives you full access to the entire camp from 2pm Friday through 5pm Sunday. Puh'tok can be the site for your rehearsal dinner Friday, with the ceremony, cocktail hour, and reception on Saturday, all in one location!
Email us at info@camppuhtok.com for more information!
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Reviews of Camp Puh'tok
Natacha Sent on 04/24/2025
5 out of 5 rating
The perfect wedding weekend
We couldn't have asked for a better experience!! The whole weekend was truly magical I wish I could relive it again and again. Working with Liz was so great. She was very responsive and answered all my questions, of which I had a lot haha.
We had about 50 of our 100 guests stay the whole weekend with us. We used the Hacienda for a welcome dinner Friday night, then had a bonfire down by the Lodge. We rented sheets and towels for the guests and they all stayed in the 5 cabins by the Lodge. The wedding party stayed in the 3 larger cabins up by the Hacienda.
On Saturday morning we had zip-lining available for a couple of hours and some lawn games set up. Most people were content just hanging out and relaxing though it seemed like. Our glam crew came to our cabin and the girls got ready there.
We had the ceremony in the Council Ring which was great since it already has seating built in. We just added some chairs for close family and bridal party significant others. We used the Trading Post for cocktail hour and the Thunderbird Lodge for the reception. Having a full commercial kitchen available was awesome, especially for our brunch the next morning.
I highly recommend renting a gold cart. That was a huge help in getting people and things moved around. Also, there's no way we could have pulled this off as smoothly as we did without having a Day-Of Planner.
The only thing I wish we'd done differently is hiring a clean up crew for Sunday lol. We had great help from our friends but it was a lot of work hauling everything back. Would have skipped renting the tent...but October weather, you never know.
We had about 50 of our 100 guests stay the whole weekend with us. We used the Hacienda for a welcome dinner Friday night, then had a bonfire down by the Lodge. We rented sheets and towels for the guests and they all stayed in the 5 cabins by the Lodge. The wedding party stayed in the 3 larger cabins up by the Hacienda.
On Saturday morning we had zip-lining available for a couple of hours and some lawn games set up. Most people were content just hanging out and relaxing though it seemed like. Our glam crew came to our cabin and the girls got ready there.
We had the ceremony in the Council Ring which was great since it already has seating built in. We just added some chairs for close family and bridal party significant others. We used the Trading Post for cocktail hour and the Thunderbird Lodge for the reception. Having a full commercial kitchen available was awesome, especially for our brunch the next morning.
I highly recommend renting a gold cart. That was a huge help in getting people and things moved around. Also, there's no way we could have pulled this off as smoothly as we did without having a Day-Of Planner.
The only thing I wish we'd done differently is hiring a clean up crew for Sunday lol. We had great help from our friends but it was a lot of work hauling everything back. Would have skipped renting the tent...but October weather, you never know.
Nikki Sent on 10/03/2024
5 out of 5 rating
The perfect wedding weekend!
Camp Puh'tok gave us the most magical setting to spend our big day. They offer a weekend package which allows you and your guests to stay Friday-Sunday - this was huge for us and a big reason why we selected this venue. The results exceeded our expectations. Everyone loved the venue and raved about how unique and beautiful it was. Elizabeth and the rest of the team at Camp Puh'tok were also very accommodating and flexible and really let us use the venue however we wanted - as a creative/planning oriented bride I loved being able to customize every aspect. Would highly recommend!
Hannah Sent on 11/27/2023
5 out of 5 rating
Most Magical Wedding Weekend
My partner and I came across Puh'tok in the Pines on an obscure website and am so thankful that we found it! It was absolutely the perfect venue for our wonderful campground wedding weekend. Our guests absolutely loved all the different locations and thoroughly enjoyed playing camp games. Elizabeth, the camp coordinator, was extremely helpful with answering our many questions. It was so much fun creating our wedding and incorporating all the unique aspects that we wanted for our weekend.
Emily Sent on 11/08/2023
5 out of 5 rating
Versatile Space, Gorgeous Scenery
My husband and I got married at Puh'tok 9/23/23. Elizabeth was extremely helpful in answering all our questions, taking us on multiple tours, just generally being a wealth of knowledge, and a wonderful person! Puh'tok is honestly a magical place. It's so quiet and beautiful literally any time of year. There are so many different options of where you could do your ceremony and so many gorgeous places to take pictures. You get to plan every little piece of your weekend and make it exactly how you want it, which was absolutely perfect for us. Our family and friends LOVED getting to stay in the cabins together. It really extended the festivities to have everyone in one place all weekend. We had the rehearsal dinner on Friday and the Farewell Brunch on Sunday both onsite. We had Tropical Storm Ophelia on us all weekend and everyone still had the best time. Definitely a unique and incredibly fun wedding experience!
Rhianna Sent on 12/24/2022
5 out of 5 rating
An amazing venue
Camp Puh’tok was an absolutely amazing venue for our wedding. We were looking for something that would lend itself to a lot of customization, room for our guests, and beautiful foliage for the autumn date (11/5/22). On all accounts, this was the perfect venue for our event! Our theme was kind of an enchanted forest. We had the ceremony set in the Council Ring and the reception at the Thunderbird Lodge. However, since you rent the place for the weekend, we were also able to have our rehearsal dinner in the Hacienda on Friday, and the brunch on Sunday.
We were able to arrive at the venue on Friday afternoon and start setting up, hauling our gear in, an getting everything in place. Saturday was a blast, filled with lots of photos and food and dancing. It was awesome! Everyone’s favorite parts were the colors of the foliage, the uniqueness of the venue, and the comfortable intimate vibe. We also included a firepit unity component to our ceremony in the Council Ring, which was a huge success. There was also a cozy firepit outside for the afterparty by the cabins.
Camp Puh’tok is such a hidden gem in Baltimore County, and the staff who help run it are also just as kind and wonderful. We worked primarily with Elizabeth, the event coordinator, and she was always quick to get back to us on any questions we had. She is so knowledgeable about the grounds of the campsite and all the events they host, too. We also loved meeting the owner when he passed through a couple times - he was always friendly and kind.
All in all, this was a fantastic place to host our wedding (or any event)! We can’t talk it up enough. Camp Puh’tok was a great venue.
We were able to arrive at the venue on Friday afternoon and start setting up, hauling our gear in, an getting everything in place. Saturday was a blast, filled with lots of photos and food and dancing. It was awesome! Everyone’s favorite parts were the colors of the foliage, the uniqueness of the venue, and the comfortable intimate vibe. We also included a firepit unity component to our ceremony in the Council Ring, which was a huge success. There was also a cozy firepit outside for the afterparty by the cabins.
Camp Puh’tok is such a hidden gem in Baltimore County, and the staff who help run it are also just as kind and wonderful. We worked primarily with Elizabeth, the event coordinator, and she was always quick to get back to us on any questions we had. She is so knowledgeable about the grounds of the campsite and all the events they host, too. We also loved meeting the owner when he passed through a couple times - he was always friendly and kind.
All in all, this was a fantastic place to host our wedding (or any event)! We can’t talk it up enough. Camp Puh’tok was a great venue.
Annie Sent on 05/21/2020
5 out of 5 rating
Laid-back, outdoor venue bursting with DIY possibilities
When my husband and I were envisioning out wedding, we wanted to have a 3-day weekend wedding in the outdoors. Thankfully, Camp Puh'tok came highly recommended by two friends and when we saw it for the first time, we fell in love. It's extremely popular, so we booked it for more than a year ahead, but that just meant we had more time to save money and plan our weekend wedding festivities. Lindsay and Chris were both amazing to work with. We had about a million questions (more and more as the wedding date was fast approaching), but Lindsay and Chris were quick to respond via email. The camp ground is the perfect setting for a DIY weekend wedding since it's truly a blank slate. They don't have any vendor requirements, which helped us work within our budget. We invited our guests to stay at the cabin, which even in November, everyone was super warm and cozy. We paid extra to have archery and zipline activities the morning of the wedding. The camp staff were friendly and knowledgable and made sure all of our guests (including us) were safe and had a blast! We took advantage of the fire rings and had a huge bonfire Friday and Saturday night, which the camp staff helped supply the wood. We used the council ring with it's built in seating for our ceremony and used the tables and chairs already supplied for our reception and meals throughout the weekend. All and all, we are so impressed with camp puh'tok and cannot recommend it enough. It was truly the perfect location for us and our guests to let go of responsibilities and to relax in the outdoors. If you are looking for a laid-back wedding location that is perfectly nestled in the wood for you to design your DIY wedding, then Camp Puh'Tok is your venue. (Photography credit: Cameron Zegers Photography)
Audrey Sent on 09/01/2010
5 out of 5 rating
We had our rehearsal, wedding, and post-wedding brunch at Camp Puh’Tok. And, many of my friends and family stayed in the cabins. Preparing for the wedding, I kept asking myself “what was I thinking having a wedding at a kid’s camp”. But, after all was said and done it was worth all the work! I could have never imagined our wedding being held anywhere else, but at Camp Puh’Tok. It was perfect, rustic, different, and unique. Exactly what we wanted! Just a word to any bride and groom to be…if you plan on having a wedding at a camp, make sure you understand that you (or a wedding service co. if you have the big bucks) will have to do EVERYTHING. They are of course a camp catered for kids. Not weddings! But, I personally liked having that flexibility and freedom of designing how to set up the decor of the dining hall, cook our own rehearsal food, and having everyone around you for an amazing weekend celebration. The camp staff was very helpful and even went beyond their service in accommodating our unique needs such as transporting hay bales for us and allowing us visit the camp multiple times for planning. Thanks Camp Puh'Tok!
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Camp Puh'tok frequently asked questions
Camp Puh'tok includes the following items and services for wedding events in its starting site fee:
- Bridal Suite
- Chairs
- Flatware
- Parking
- Tables
The space offered by Camp Puh'tok for wedding events is known for:
- Barn
- Campsite/Cabin
- Farm/Ranch
- Garden
- Park
Camp Puh'tok offers the following indoor/outdoor options for weddings:
- Indoor
- Uncovered Outdoor
Camp Puh'tok offers the following types of wedding events:
- Ceremony
- Reception
- Bridal Shower
- Engagement Party
- Elopements
- Rehearsal Dinner
Camp Puh'tok offers the following services for wedding events:
- Accommodations
- Event Rentals
- Get Ready Rooms
- Outside Vendors
- Wifi
Camp Puh'tok offers the following furniture and decor items for weddings:
- Chairs
- Tables
Camp Puh'tok is recommended by 98% of couples who have used their services. Their overall rating is 4.9 out of 5 with the following breakdown: 4.9 in quality of service, 4.9 in average response time, 4.9 in flexibility, 4.9 in professionalism and 4.9 in value.