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Pahaquarra Boy Scout Camp: George Washington Council: Columbia, NJ: Closed: 1925 to 1971 [70] Pine Hill Scout Reservation: Garden State Council/Camden County: Pine Hill, NJ: Active: Mortimer L. Schiff Scout Reservation: Boy Scouts of America: Mendham, New Jersey: Closed: This was a major Boy Scout training facility for almost 50 years. It was ...
Ten Mile River Scout Camps (TMR) is a 12,000-acre (4,856 ha) - roughly the size of Manhattan - camp near Narrowsburg, New York, has four miles of frontage on the Delaware River, and is owned and operated by the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) since 1927. It is the principal Boy Scout camp serving New York City.
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Tuscarora Scout Reservation is a Boy Scouts of America camp located on 1200 acres (4.5 km 2) around Summit Lake in New York State's Southern Tier. [13] The camp has ten summer camping sites with 2-man platform tents. [13] It has five winter units with a center lodge equipped with wood stoves, refrigerators and electricity and four 8-man lean-tos.
In 1968, environmentalist and National Geographic Society director of exploration William O. Field sold his 1,400 acres (6 km 2) of wilderness to the Boy Scouts of America. New York State was also interested in the land to expand the existing Clarence Fahnestock State Park, but Field felt that the Boy Scouts would be better caretakers and keep ...
Onteora Scout Reservation is a Boy Scout camp, owned by the Theodore Roosevelt Council, located in Livingston Manor, New York. The camp consists of 1,400 acres (6 km 2) and adjoins the Catskill State Forest Preserve in the Catskill Mountains. [5] It was opened in 1955 due to overcrowding in Camp Wauwepex.
In 1971, the BSA started a new row of Council numbers starting with the Rainbow Council in Morris, Illinois (#702). [19] In 1976, the BSA allowed the Boston Council and the other councils surrounding Boston (Cambridge, Minuteman, and North Bay) to form a "consolidated council" similar to the way that New York City and the five boroughs were ...
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation offered to buy the land from Field to add on to the newly formed and neighboring Clarence Fahnestock State Park, but Field declined, claiming that the BSA would be better caretakers of the land, keeping it "forever wild". The estate was sold to the council in 1968.