Attending Spring Gathering

Scholarships are available to those who request financial assistance to attend this event. Please contribute funds for scholarships if you are able.
 

The campus is handicap accessible and stroller-friendly, except for the Campus Center Family housing. These rooms are 2nd floor with no elevator.
 

If you or someone in your party needs special help, such as mobility or other assistance for participating in activities, please let us know in advance.
 

There are several housing options. Costs for each reflect the amenities available.

Long Point Lodge is a hotel-like facility with a lounge adjacent to a dining room and full kitchen. There is an elevator.

Campus Center has two apartments with kitchenettes on the first floor. One sleeps up to four and the other up to six. Please bring towels. There are other guest rooms (with 4 twin beds) on the second floor, private bath, No elevator. If you are in one of the guest rooms, please bring towels and pillows.

Dormitories are assigned male and female single sex. There are 12 twin beds in each room and one and two bedroom end rooms available. There is a large shared bath facility in each dorm with the end rooms sharing a bath. Single sex teen dorms will also be available. Please bring towels and pillows.

Camping is available on the big lawn area, across the road from the Campus Cneter. Bath facilities are shared with the Campus Center.

Indicate your lodging preferences and calculate your lodging costs on the registration form.
 

Please indicate meal needs and preferences in the food table of the registration form. Friends whose housing includes a kitchenette have the option of preparing their own meals.
 

Childcare will be provided during the morning sessions and workshops for three groups of children: infant to age 4; 5-8 year olds; and 9-12 year olds.
 

Volunteers are always needed to help in the dining hall, pitch in with childcare, and aid those with mobility issues. The success of our gathering depends in large measure on each of us doing our part.
 

Long Point Camp is located on the west side of Seneca Lake, 6 miles ESE of Penn Yan. Follow Route 14 toward Penn Yan until you come to Long Point Road. Turn east onto Long Point Road (there is no west turn) and follow it into Camp Long Point. Bear left at the second fork. Registration is on the left.

FROM THE NORTH (ROCHES-
TER,   BUFFALO   OR   SYRA-
CUSE): Get on I-90 heading east from Rochester/Buffalo or heading west from Syracuse. Get off at exit 42 and take state route 14 south through Geneva toward Penn Yan. Long Point Road is about 14 miles south of Geneva. The 1ast intersection before Long Point Road is state route 26 headed into Penn Yan. Do not go into Penn Yan. Continue south on route 14 to Long Point road and turn left. Then follow the directions above. If you come to route 28, turn around.

FROM THE SOUTH (BINGHAMTON): Get on I-86 headed west. Get off at exit 52 and head north on state route 14 through Watkins Glen and up the west side of Seneca Lake toward Penn Yan. Long Point road is about 25 miles north of Watkins Glen. The last intersections before Long Point Road are state route 28 to the left, fo11owed shortly by East Leach Road to the right. Long Point road is just under a mile further, on your right. Then follow the directions at the top. If you come to route 26, turn around.

FROM THE SOUTH (FREDONIA): Get on I-86 headed east. Get off at exit 38 at Bath and head north on state route 54 toward Penn Yan. It is possible to follow route 54 through Penn Yan all the way to state route 14 and then follow the directions from the north.

It is shorter and quicker to turn right onto state route 30 toward Thayer Corners, about three miles before Penn Yan. After about 4 miles, state route 30 ends in a ‘T' at route 11. Go left (north) on route 11 toward Milo Center. After about 1.3 miles, turn right on state route 28. Route 28 ends in a ‘T' at route 14. Go left (north) on route 14. Pass Leach Road to the right. Long Point road is just under a mile further, on your right. Then follow the directions at the top. If you come to route 26, turn around.

If you find yourself in Penn Yan, you can still save time by turning right onto route 1. Follow route 1 out of town to route 9 (route 1 ends in a ‘T' at route 9). Go left on route 9 and then quickly turn right onto route 26. Take route 26 over to route 14 and turn right onto route 14. Long Point road is now on your left.
 

Registration form (PDF document, 580 KB, new window)

Sponsor form (PDF document, 300 KB, new window)
 

Learn more about how to support youth in our Meetings! A NYYM RAP (Responsible Adult Presence) workshop will be taking place 9:30 AM–4:00 PM, Friday, May 16, 2008, at Long Point Camp (preceding the Farmington-Scipio Spring Gathering). More information available at: http://www.nyym.org/events/rap16may08.html (new window).