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Traditionally sporting camps were always “remote”, which made them desirable destinations for fishing, hunting, and other types of outdoor recreation. [8] Remote camps are typically rustic wilderness log cabins without such modern utilities as indoor plumbing, electricity or telephone lines; but many have been updated or adjusted to make for a more comfortable stay.
Fort Scott Camp opened in 1922 on Mt. Nebo Road near Cleves. Due to space constraints, it moved to a 204-acre (83 ha) property near New Baltimore in 1924. [1] The camp was located 2 miles (3.2 km) from Fernald Feed Materials Production Center. In 1984, Fernald was revealed to be a uranium processing plant that was sending radioactive ...
Camp Jackson is a 515-acre primitive camp located 5 miles east of Scottsboro on the Tennessee River at Jones Cove. Camp O'Rear: Black Warrior Council: Jasper: Active Archived July 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine: Camp O'Rear is a 90-acre primitive-style facility located in Jasper, AL. Camp Pushmataha: Mobile Area Council: Citronelle: Active
Later additions to the group were Tamarack Farm (a work camp for 15- to 17-year-olds of all genders), Saltash Mountain (co-ed, focused on hiking trips), Flying Cloud (for 11- to 14-year-old boys, originally borrowing the traditions of the Lakota people but later creating their own system of wilderness living in the manner of cultures from ...
Omarska is a predominantly Serbian village in northwestern Bosnia, near the town of Prijedor. [8] The camp in the village existed from about 25 May to about 21 August 1992, when the Army of Republika Srpska and police unlawfully segregated, detained and confined some of more than 7,000 Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats captured in Prijedor.
Camp Meriwether is a 790-acre Scouts BSA summer camp founded in 1926 and located south of Cape Lookout near Cloverdale, Oregon, along the Oregon Coast. Camp Meriwether is the largest of the Cascade Pacific Council's four resident camps in Oregon. During World War II, the camp was closed for two years and served as a US Army outpost until 1943.
Camp Onway, in Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, on the shores of Onway Lake, was a property owned by local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The site is now known as Zion's Camp and has been owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2007.
The "camp", near Keese Mill, in the U.S. state of New York, was considered by Post to be a "rustic retreat"; it consisted of 68 buildings, including a fully staffed main lodge and private guest cabins, each staffed with its own butler. It was one of the largest of the Adirondack great camps and possibly the most elaborately furnished. [2]