Youth Camps 2025-2026

The Upper Peninsula Luge Club invites your youth ages 8-12 to either or both of these camps:
Both camps will focus on developing key alpine luge skills, including steering the sled,
weaving through cones, making left & right turns, braking & pushing out of the start handles.
  • Holiday Luge Camp (ages 8-12)
    Daily noon-2:00pm, from Monday December 29 (2025) - Friday January 2 (2026).
    Camp is $90 + $3 card processing fee. 
    ​Fill out and bring all three parts of the required registration packet to first session.​
    ​Registration payment link is below. 
    ​Registration closed. ​
  • After School Luge Class (ages 8-12)
    Thursdays 3-5pm from January 8th - February 26th, 2026.
    Class is $90 + $3 card processing fee.
    Fill out and bring all three parts of the required registration packet to first session.
    ​Registration payment link is below. 
    ​Registration closed.  Email for more information.

Camp & Class Information

Fee pays for youth club membership and a luge t-shirt too!  All instruction & equipment is provided.  All sessions take place at Lucy Hill.  See map on our Contact & Directions page.

Youth should arrive dressed warmly (we will be outside the entire class session), and they should bring water, preferably tagged with their name. (We do not have running water onsite.  We do have a port-a-potty.)  Youth must be physically comfortable getting up from ground level and able to pull a sled.  They must be able to hear and mature enough to follow the adult coaches' instructions.

PAPERWORK:
  1. The online registration will ask for youth age, shirt size, shoe size, (and helmet size if known).
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  2. The parent or guardian must complete the required registration packet for each registered youth, and bring it to the first session.  You can print at home, or ask to get a copy via the luge club / your school.

    The packet includes a liability waiver, membership form (including evidence of health insurance), and concussion policy awareness form.  Youth can not participate unless the parent or guardian has completed all three required forms.

  3. Optional, for students who want to advance into sliding on more of the hill:
    To progress beyond the public sliding area as a club member, you must achieve necessary skill requirements and have this annual medical form completed.  The form has pages filled by the parent and ALSO a page that must be filled and signed by the primary care provider (physician, nurse practitioner, or physician's assistant). 
  • For healthy youth, doctor's offices will typically allow you to drop off the medical form page to be filled out and signed by the clinician, without scheduling a new appointment, as long as the youth has had a checkup within the last 12 months.
You can print the required registration packet from the links below.  Form copies are also available locally by contacting the club, and may also be available via local schools.  Required packet of three forms must be complete at start of first session.
Our coaches are SafeSport Core trained as per United States Luge Association policy. 
  • Parents are encouraged to learn more about youth athlete protection in free online training through the U.S. Center for SafeSport course catalog.  There is a 30 minute parent course, and/or watch the 15 minute SafeSport for Kids Ages 5-12 with your child.
  • When signing up for those online classes, if prompted for an Enrollment Key, use:
    NGBLugeT9S3!1

Other questions about the camp or class?  Contact the club.

Learn more about the club and membership on the club's Membership page.  We encourage youth to continue in the club - including enjoying racing in our club races (in January and February)! - after learning the basics at camp.

Training video: Proper Steering

Did you know?
Safety is an important part of the international rules of luge.  Regulations address areas such as track design, track inspections, medical arrangements, and athlete's equipment.
In 1991, the engineering consultants for the track's 36,000 watt lighting system received an international "Illuminations Design Award".