Our Camps

Virtues

Letter from the Owner

About Camp

Our main goal is to provide a safe environment for children to meet new people and have fun. We want to introduce and reintroduce campers to entertaining places around the Austin and Central Texas Area. We offer weekly specialty camp choices centered around outdoor, indoor, or theme park destinations. We strive to practice 5 Core Camp Virtues every day to foster a positive experience for all participants.

Our Specialty Camps

Outdoor (mostly) - This camp focuses on visiting the natural bodies of water and public parks in the area. It will include hiking, swimming, kayaking, and more! We occasionally will escape the heat for bowling, arcades, laser tag, and other indoor adventures.

Indoor Week

Outdoor Week

Indoor (mostly) - This camp is geared toward the indoor-sy crowd. It features venues such as Uncharted Adventures, Altitude Trampoline Park, Blazer Tag, Cidercade, EVO, and many more! We will go outside from time to time, for some sun and water fun. Can’t stay indoors all summer.

Theme Parks Week

Theme Parks (mostly) - This camp will visit some of the best theme parks in the world. Depending on the week, we will take 2 trips per week to Fiesta Texas, Schlitterbahn, or Typhoon Texas, respectively. We make 2 visits a week so the campers can maximize their time at these wonderful venues. We’ll also visit smaller parks such as Volente Beach, ZDT, and Rockin’ River.

  • Our number one priority is to keep everyone safe from danger and injury. We will frequently remind kiddos to stay with their groups and to follow all safety practices of the venues we visit. Counselors will also effectively and consistently monitor their assigned groups.

  • Part of our mission is to teach campers to be responsible for their behavior and their property. We will all make mistakes and/or can be forgetful from time to time but it is important we learn to accept the consequences of our actions.

  • We want to emphasize the importance of following directions from adults but also to listen and learn from our peers. Campers will learn more from each other than they will from the counselors/adults.

  • All who participate in camp (campers and counselors) will be expected to show kindness and respect to everybody they meet inside and outside of camp. Not just a virtue for camp but a virtue for life as well.

  • Being positive is essential at an adventure camp where children may be trying new things for the first time or just having a bad day. We expect campers and counselors to be encouraging towards everyone in a positive manner especially when someone might be struggling.

Camp Virtues

Letter from the Owner

Hello Parents and Guardians!

My name is Thomas Austin and I am the Owner and Director of Kidz Quest. I have been working with young folks for over 2 decades in many capacities. I started as an AAU Track and Field Coach while still in high school and from there I have held a variety of different positions, ranging from Preschool P.E. Coach, Summer Camp Counselor ( at various overnight and day camps), 5th Grade Science Teacher, Substitute Teacher, and working in several after school programs.

Most recently from 2022-2025, I was the Program Director for a very prominent After School Program here in Austin that operated at 7 different schools, 5 public and 2 private. While in that role, I was responsible for supervising 45-50 total staff members providing care to over 400 total students.

After all these years, I realized that my true passion was summer camps (specifically adventure camps) and therefore decided to go into business for myself. I founded Kidz Quest to bring my love and enthusiasm for summer adventures to others.

I graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 2011. So, obviously, I am an avid Longhorn Fan (all sports). Hook ‘em! I am also a Dallas Cowboys fan (unfortunately), Spurs fan, and casual Astros fan. I enjoy going to live concerts, movies, and singing karaoke occasionally. To relax, I like to hang out at a pool (or any natural body of water) with friends and fire up the grill.

I have a beautiful doggo named Kiki (pictured below). She’s an 80 lb. German Shepherd Mix and she loves going to her favorite dog park, The Watering Bowl. If the environment is right, she may join us on a few adventures this coming summer.

2026 will be the inaugural year for Kidz Quest and we look forward to meeting and getting to know all the families that choose our camp. It’s going to be a summer full of fun, friendship, and memories that last a lifetime.

We can’t wait to share it with you!

-Thomas