BB Day Camp Portland Bus Info

Shorten your commute and get your kid to camp by bus this summer! We have two bus stops, one in NW and one in SE Portland. Pick-up and drop-off times and exact locations will be given to registered families the week before their camp session begins. Busing costs $54 per camper a week. As the vehicle we are using for this service is a passenger van, there are only 13 seats available for the bus each week. 

Requirements to ride the bus: 

• Children must meet the weight and height minimums to sit in a backless booster seat or not require one at all to ride to camp.  

• Any required booster seats must be provided by parents. 

• Parents of any camper riding the bus must opt-in to texting in order to receive bus related updates, such as traffic delays. 

Registering for the bus: 

Once your camper is enrolled for the week of camp you would like to add-on busing for, you can fill out the form titled PDX Day Camp Bussing Registration.  Watch tutorial here.

There are limited spots available on a first-come, first-serve basis. When spots are full, applicants will be added to a waitlist in the order their application was received. A waitlist form will open once the bus is at capacity for any given week. 

Bus stop policy: 

For each stop, there is a ten-minute window the bus will arrive in, assuming regular traffic delays. The bus will depart at the end of that ten-minute window, on the dot. During the AM bus route, if a registered camper is not at the stop at the designated departure time, the bus will leave without them, and it will be the parent’s responsibility to get their camper to camp.  

During the PM bus route campers will not be left at a stop if one of their authorized adults is not there to receive them. In the event of a missed pick-up, the camper will remain on board throughout the rest of the route and be returned to camp, where the parents of that camper will be expected to pick them up by 5:00. If they are picked up after that, the late fee of $3 per minute will be charged as per our policy. 

If you miss PM bus pick up for your camper more than once without prior communication with the camp director team, the camper will be removed from the bus route and expected to be picked up from Congregation Neveh Shalom during the regular pick-up window for camp. In the event of a removal from the bus route, a refund will not be issued. 

Bus behavior policy: 

All campers are expected to maintain the same behavior expectations listed on pages 16 and 17 of this Parent Manual. Campers must remain buckled while on the bus and may not eat while on the bus. Water from a closed bottle is okay. Campers are expected to use inside voices while in the vehicle, and nothing is to be thrown while inside the vehicle. 

Bus cancelation policy: 

If you wish to cancel your bus enrollment, you have until the Wednesday before the week of camp to cancel. After that day, you may choose to cancel your enrollment on the bus, but the fee to ride will not be refunded.