
Your BYU Visit
Pack Your Bags
Welcome to the BYU Young Historian Camp. We are excited that you have chosen to come to BYU to enrich your skills. Up-to-date info packets will be posted here in May.
Parking and Personal Vehicles
We do not encourage you to bring your car to campus. If you need to bring a vehicle or if you need parking on the first day, please park in the visitor lots shown on the campus map or in C lots around the residence hall. You are not allowed to use your car to transport other participants during the camp. Participants staying in the residence halls are required to give their keys to their counselor until Saturday morning.
If you are staying on campus, you are not allowed to go off campus unless you have a parental release form stating where and with whom you are going and how long you will be gone.
Airport Shuttle
If you are arriving by plane, commercial shuttle service is available to take you from the Salt Lake International Airport (SLC) to Provo. Advance reservations are required. Have your flight number and your arrival time ready when you call. Please note that BYU is not affiliated with the shuttle; it is only listed here for your convenience. It is up to each participant to find his or her own transportation to and from BYU.
Express Shuttle
Approximate cost one way: $30 for first person/$14 for each additional person in your party. Reservations are available at expressshuttleutah.com or 1-800-397-0773.
Driving Instructions
If you are driving to Provo via I-15 southbound or northbound, take the Orem University Parkway exit (#269) and head east toward Y Mountain (big Y painted on it).
This street (University Parkway) will take you past University Place and bring you into Provo.
When the check-in locations have been finalized, we will post detailed driving instructions.
Youth are expected to abide by the CES Dress and Grooming Standards at all camp activities, including meals. The Cannon Center will not allow youth to enter the cafeteria if they are not dressed according to these standards. Shorts and skirts that are a few inches above the knee, and swimsuits, are not acceptable in the cafeteria.
Read the detailed dress and appearance standards for young men and young women.
Meals
All camp participants will receive daily lunches as part of their registration.
Campus Food and Housing Package includes:
Food: Monday (lunch) through Saturday (breakfast)
Housing: Monday night through Friday night
Checkout is Saturday by 9:00 a.m.
Housing
You may decide to purchase the food and housing package and stay in the residence halls during your camp experience. You can request a friend as a roommate, or you can choose to be assigned a roommate and make a new friend. The residence halls are fun places to hang out with counselors, play games, talk with new buddies, and relax.
A camp counselor will be there for you and your new friends. You will have a wonderful time getting to know your counselor and will come to love and look up to him or her. The camp counselors are current BYU students, so you can feel free to ask any of them about their college experiences. These camp counselors will also be great support to you throughout the week.
Separate residence hall buildings are provided for girls and boys. Participants of the opposite sex are never allowed in dorm bedrooms. You can have your new guy or girl friends hang out in the residence hall lobbies.
To make your camp experience pleasant for you and everyone else, make sure you bring enough clean clothes, shampoo, soap, deodorant, and any other toiletries necessary. Towel exchange happens every Wednesday, so if you want another fresh towel, please bring one from home.