I am in the Inland Northwest Council #611 in WA. We are very fortunate form the sounds of things. We had a family donate over 900 acres of land on a lake to our council to be used for camps. We have built a large camp called Cub Country that isdedicated to all Cub Scouts and is a resident camp. The summer cmaps are 4 days 3 nights and Tigers (with a parent) thru Webelos go together.Last year we built a HUGE tree house structure! There is a tree house on each side with one being fully handicap accessible! There is a climbing net, moving bridges, a rock wall, fireman's pole, and more on this structure! We usee the tree houses as learning centers and the older boys can earn the rights to sleep in the houses! Our council volunteers built the structures! We had alot of fun doing it! The next plan is build a pirate ship structure in the waterfront area! We have 2 lodges, the original and a newer one. This is also where we have our own Order of the Arrow camp, Wood Badge, and Brown Sea camps. Part of the camp is set up as "villages" with platform tesnt and firepits, showers, KYBOs, and the Lodge. The other part of the camp is all backwoods and we hike in to locate the remote "villages" where there is only fire pits and outhouses. We have to pitch our tents and lashed social/food areas. We also have our Trailblazers camp here. This is a one day event for cubs and their parents to exoerience some activites of scouting such as archery, bb guns, bmx bikes, fishing, and our very own human foosball!
We also have 2 Boy Scout camps within our Council. These camps are strictly for Boy Scouts and Cubs are only allowed during Family Camps or Day Camps. We have 6 day camps every summer and this year we opened all the day camps to everyone in the council. In the past they have been limited to the districts. So the boys can attend any or all of the camps and earn patches to can be put together to form a circle for every three camps they attend.
Sorry to go on and on, but I think we are pretty lucky to have such great camp reservations!
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I am in the Inland Northwest Council #611 in WA. We are very fortunate form the sounds of things. We had a family donate over 900 acres of land on a lake to our council to be used for camps. We have built a large camp called Cub Country that isdedicated to all Cub Scouts and is a resident camp. The summer cmaps are 4 days 3 nights and Tigers (with a parent) thru Webelos go together.Last year we built a HUGE tree house structure! There is a tree house on each side with one being fully handicap accessible! There is a climbing net, moving bridges, a rock wall, fireman's pole, and more on this structure! We usee the tree houses as learning centers and the older boys can earn the rights to sleep in the houses! Our council volunteers built the structures! We had alot of fun doing it! The next plan is build a pirate ship structure in the waterfront area! We have 2 lodges, the original and a newer one. This is also where we have our own Order of the Arrow camp, Wood Badge, and Brown Sea camps. Part of the camp is set up as "villages" with platform tesnt and firepits, showers, KYBOs, and the Lodge. The other part of the camp is all backwoods and we hike in to locate the remote "villages" where there is only fire pits and outhouses. We have to pitch our tents and lashed social/food areas. We also have our Trailblazers camp here. This is a one day event for cubs and their parents to exoerience some activites of scouting such as archery, bb guns, bmx bikes, fishing, and our very own human foosball!
We also have 2 Boy Scout camps within our Council. These camps are strictly for Boy Scouts and Cubs are only allowed during Family Camps or Day Camps. We have 6 day camps every summer and this year we opened all the day camps to everyone in the council. In the past they have been limited to the districts. So the boys can attend any or all of the camps and earn patches to can be put together to form a circle for every three camps they attend.
Sorry to go on and on, but I think we are pretty lucky to have such great camp reservations!