A lot of people have passed through these gates since 1922, when a woman named Emma Graumann first opened a camp for girls called We-You-Wega. It grew and prospered. Emma must have chosen well because there has been a camp on this site ever since. Mainly serving young people for over 70 years, there was a brief period during the 40s when this was also a camp for adults. After the war (WW2), the name was changed to Wekeela for the first time - a camp for boys, whose alumni still meet every year, with a sister camp just down the road called Naiad. During the 60s the two were combined into a coed camp - the format we preserve today, though just about everything else has changed since then. Eric Scoblionko, a professional educator who has a great love of children and camping, became the owner and director in 1981. The camping industry and their market generally acknowledge that he has built Wekeela into one of the finest coed traditional camps for children and teens in the country.