Camping Calendar
Camping
Organized camping is a creative, educational experience in cooperative group living in the outdoors. It uses the natural surroundings to contribute significantly to physical, mental, spiritual, and social growth.
- Camping contributes to good health.
- Camping helps campers develop self-reliance and resourcefulness.
- Camping enhances spiritual growth.
- Camping contributes to social development.
- Camping is an experience in citizenship training.
- Camping at the Cub Scout level introduces Cub Scouts to the knowledge and skills they will learn and apply more thoroughly as a Scout.
"A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room."
Robert Baden-Powell
Scouting Founder
Cub Scout Camping Opportunities
- Pack overnighters (reserve Camp Mountaineer)
- Webelos den overnight campouts (reserve Camp Mountaineer)
- Council-organized day camps
- Council-organized family camps (ie Parent N Pal, Cub Adventure Weekend)
- Resident camps (ie Camp Mountaineer)
Scouts BSA Camping Opportunities
- Troop campouts (reserve Camp Mountaineer)
- Troop-based high adventure trips
- Council-organized weekend activities
- Resident camps (ie Camp Mountaineer)
- Specialty camps (ie NYLT, NAYLE, NOAC)
- High adventure camps
- National/World Scout Jamborees