382 acres of woods and water outside Anniston, about halfway between Birmingham and Atlanta and ten minutes off I-20.
A retreat center and camp, open all year, for churches, schools, scout troops, teams and families who need to get away for a day or a weekend.
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Youth groups, women’s retreats, scout troops and work teams. Lodges and cabins, meeting space for up to 400, meals in the Grove Dining Hall, and staff to run the pool, climbing wall, ropes course and boats.
Lodging & activities
Hands-on nature and science programs for classes, homeschool groups and clubs, built around the Alabama Course of Study. Day trips are $30 a student with lunch.
Field trips
Summer day camp, plus camps over fall and spring break. Dates and sign-ups live on our Children’s page.
Children’s ministriesOn Sundays in June and July, Anniston First moves its 10:30 worship out to Martha’s Chapel. Anyone is welcome, and nobody dresses up.
About Common Ground →
Camp Lee is part of how Anniston First helps people grow in faith. Some of that happens in a Sunday school room. Some of it happens on a trail, at a campfire, or forty feet up a climbing wall.
It is also open to anyone. You don’t have to be Methodist, or a church at all, to book a weekend here. Every group gets the same welcome, shaped by seven values:
The camp is named for Arthur H. Lee, whose gift in 1966 made it possible for the church to buy the land. Everything here since then has been built, kept up and paid for by people who wanted others to have a place like this.
Camp Zinn opens as a Boy Scout camp, run by the Choccolocco Council.
The Scouts move to a new site, and the property goes up for sale.
On August 11, Arthur H. Lee gives Anniston First 1,000 shares of Lee Brass common stock. The church sells the shares and buys the camp.
382 acres, with lakes, lodges, cabins, a pool, a climbing wall, a ropes course and miles of wooded trail.
Camp Lee is a ministry of Anniston First United Methodist Church. Lakes, roofs, cabins and trails all need looking after, and gifts to Camp Lee keep it open for the next group. Camp Lee has its own giving fund, and you can give online in a couple of minutes.
We’d be glad to walk you around. Call or email to set up a tour, check open dates, or get rates for your group.
Rates depend on your group size and dates, so we quote them by phone or email.