I love my local council camp, but it's 75 miles outside of town (90 minutes by car). I would trade it in a second for a camp 1/10 the size but only a short trip from home.
Corporations with Strategic plan big ideas but no execution other than (tell units membership is down - go recruit! 🙃) will continue to slide into obvilion.
56 councils with conditional charters is 25% of the total numbers - some of these probably won't meet the metrics
22% of the latest total membership is in 10 councils -membership more than 10000
18% of councils have less than 1000 youth and 9 of those less than 500.
camps at 30% capacity even having only 3 weeks of scout camp - kids want a entire summer job so they don't apply or come back.
Councils are individual competing feifdoms and there is no incentive to merge.
Yet the basic management model hasn't changed.
I hope for the best and not just more of circling the wagons and shooting inwards.
JMHO.
Councils with failed camps often have such a history. Poor stewardship, poor management, and no strategic, mission related oversight by anyone who should care (but doesn't), like National. Land assets in scouting are generally viewed through a lens that favors larceny over legacy.