Jeff Shumway Dino Paleontology Sleepaway Camp for Adults

2026 Northern Hemisphere Fall Camp details:
Dates: October 24-27, 2026
Location: Cordova, Alaska

The Jeff Shumway Dino Paleontology Sleepaway Camp for Adults is Alaska's only dinosaur camp for adults. Join us in beautiful metropolitan Cordova, Alaska several times a year for fun, camaraderie, dino activities, and intriguing guest speakers. At camp you will learn the latest about paleontology and how dinosaurs continue to shape popular culture. As well, you will learn the secret truths about dinosaurs and history that the mainstream media are too afraid to cover. You will also make lifelong friends and maybe even relatives.

Do you want to study paleontology at the University of Alaska? UAF, UAA, UAS -- nothing compares to our paleontology offerings! Check us out instead!

Guest speakers

Please see our speakers directory.

Activities

Please see our list of dinosaur activities.

Registration

Please see our registration page.

Lodging

Please see the lodging options page.

Food

For general cuisine, we recommend:

• Copper River Brewing
• Jen's Pizzeria
• Medicaid Eyeglass Superstore (free drip coffee)

Vegan and gluten-free foods are rarely available.

Testimonials

• "Jeff Shumway's payment plan was a great way to salvage my credit score. Just [redacted] payments, all made on time, and now I can rent an apartment again." - Elbert Abbott
• "Big Bottle Bill can drink anyone under the table! That's one example of how the renowned guest speakers don't shy away from hanging out with attendees. Believe it or not, they act just like regular people." - Odis Meija
• "You gotta hear Joemo Sapien's dinosaur impression!" - Kirk Morris
• "The dino cots can accommodate the heftiest dino enthusiast. It's so cool sleeping inside a dinosaur!" - Lloyd Perkins
• "Gender ratio really good. So many females. Billy Cool let me try to be his wingman!" - Raul Floyd
• "All the guest speakers say the coolest shit about dinosaurs. Like facts and shit." - Olen Rivas
• "Compared to other adult dino sleepaway camps, this one is light on the egghead bullshit ('science') and heavy on the childhood nostalgia." - Johnnie Buchanan
• "The venue toilets always do the job." - Lucio Petersen
• "Love the super simple code of conduct that they admit they lifted from Bill and Ted: 'Be excellent to one another.'" - Neil Clements
• "Best dino event since the 1997 Dinosaurs TV show convention in Ashland, Kansas!" - Jerald Chan
• "Loved the complimentary map of the conference town!" - Garth Fowler
• "Growing up all I knew about dinosaurs came from the Flintstones. We'd watch it every night at bible camp. Our night pastor said the Flintstones was a scientific and Godly depiction of dinosaurs, what with dinosaurs living side-by-side with man, under man's dominion. But now, thanks to the Shumway camp, I know how wrong our night pastor was! Dinosaurs and men lived thousands of years apart! Plus any dino can kick any man's ass!" - Carson Yoder
• "LouEllen the Hydro-Nymph taught us that 'fear' of birds is not only okay, but evolutionarily correct. Those of us 'afraid' of birds are really ultra-mammals. We ultra-mammals have inherited, and act on, 300 million years of mammalian aversion to dinosaurs." - Homer Huffman