Proud Eagle, having never actually attended a council camp (although my troop has camped at the council summer camp facility off-season), I am not in a position to comment on the merits of council run camps.
I can say that my group likes the control and flexibility in running our own program, especially in terms of trying to maintain a boy led program and promoting the patrol method. At a council camp, the camp director is in charge, not your troop's senior patrol leader and Scoutmaster. You lose a valuable form of bonding and interaction when its someone else's staff running the progra