This article explores the ideology of the camp in and outside of sexual conversion facilities in Emily Danforth’s novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012). I argue that strategies of confinement, limitation of access to outside media, and an omnipresent sense of supervision can be found within the protagonist’s rural community. These characteristics bear overt as well as covert resemblance to the conversion-camp facilities depicted. To achieve this, I draw from ‘camp theory’ as defined by theorists such as Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, and more recent scholars like Bernadette Barton, who integrates the Foucauldian panopticon into rural US America, especially through the predominance of Evangelical Christianity. I use a methodology of theory-assisted close reading to explore the relationship between the practice of attempting to convert the sexualities of queer teenagers, religious conversion, and the space in which these actions play out. In the relationship between the physical arena of the camp and the rural communities that act as camp-like institutions, I understand the camp as an ideology rather than only a spatial setting.