Woodward Camp or Camp Woodward is a sleep away

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Woodward, Pennsylvania Woodward is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 110 at the 2010 census. Geography ...

, United States. It was founded in 1970 by Edward Isabelle, who was an All-American gymnast. Named after a small town 35 minutes east of

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, Woodward started out as a gymnastics camp. When the US decided to boycott the 1980 Olympic games, Woodward Camp expanded its programming to include

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. The BMX program quickly grew and the facilities were expanded to include ramps. In December 2008, Copper Mountain resort in Colorado opened the first installment of 'Woodward at Copper' with the Cage, a retail store focused on action sports with such features as an indoor skate bowl and the Woodward All Ages Lounge. Woodward at Copper offers winter camp days and week-long residential summer camps, including dry land as well as mountain facilities and training areas. Woodward opened its first international camp, Woodward Beijing, in Beijing, China in the summer of 2010. ''FUEL TV Presents Camp Woodward'' is a show about Woodward campers and their experiences.

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and Woodward partnered to create the show in 2007, and its fourth season began airing in February 2011. On June 9, 2011, Woodward opened Woodward Tahoe, at

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, just outside

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