Idaho Boy Scout Camp Collection

Camp Billy Rice of the Ore-Ida Council was located Southeast of McCall, in Valley County, on Warm Lake. 3 hours North of Boise. The Camp was named after Wiiliam B. "Billy" Rice a Scout who died of typhoid fever at the age of 16 on July 26, 1933. The Camp operated from 1934-1972. (Courtesy of Cascade News, July 28, 1933). The Camp had a sandy beach and even today is still called the Billy Rice Swim Area.

Camp Bradley is the main summer camp for the Snake River Council. "Originally called the Cape Horn Scout Reservation; Camp Bradley was purchased by the Snake River Council in 1956. As many as 50 businesses from within the councils boundaries helped to purchase the property with its two main lodges, seven smaller cabins, two utility buildings, swimming pool with it’s cabin and 57 acres of land. 1,038

scouts attended that first summer of scout camp. This was the beginning of the great camping tradition at Camp Bradley.

In July of 1957, Archie Brown and the youth from the Ma-I-Shu Lodge of the Order of the Arrow, pioneered 58 miles of rough wilderness to form what is now called the Ma-I-Shu Trail. In later years other trails were developed to form the Silver Moccasin Trails. These trails are headquartered out of Camp Bradley.

During the summer of 1962, the Cape Horn Scout Reservation’s mortgage of $15,000 was completely paid in full by Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Shields, Jr. in memory of the Bradley’s son, James Robert Bradley. At this point dedication ceremonies were held and the camp received the official name of Camp Bradley at the Cape Horn Scout Reservation.

Since the early 1960's the Council has used the Camp for a base of operations for such activities as, one week horse back experiences, and high adventure experiences such as whitewater rafting down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Today our Council uses Camp Bradley as the base for the whitewater and offers five full weeks of rafting to scouts in our area.

As the needs of the camp increased, Dr. Paul Heuston and Coly Parrish gathered the necessary funds of $165,000 to build a new lodge. In the spring of 1974 construction on the Coly Parrish Friendship Lodge began. Construction was completed on the lodge in October of 1975. Minor improvements have been made on this building during its existence, including $20,000 worth of upgrades to the kitchen equipment in June of 2000.

A camp chapel was added to the camp in 1975 in memory of Boyd Given, a local Eagle Scout from Twin, Falls. The Boyd Given Chapel was built and donated by the local United Methodist Church and is located at the point of a peaceful meadow at Camp Bradley.

Camp Bradley at the Cape Horn Scout Reservation is an ideal location for Boy Scouts to have the ultimate camping adventure. The tradition lives on each new camping season and it is truly the best camping experience scouting has to offer in the pines of Central Idaho." This information borrowed from the Snake River Council website 8/2008.

Cullimore High Adventure Base of the Ore-Ida Council is located within Camp Morrison and is a full time older youth high adventure program.

Camp Easton of the present day Inland Northwest Council and former Idaho Panhandle Council "sits on a bay that commands a westward view across scenic Lake Coeur d'Alene" (courtesy of Dana Bonstrom). The Camp, named after a Mining District, was founded in 1917 and operated from 1917-1923 under the Wallace, Kellogg and Coeur D' Alene County Council.

Nestled in the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains that the Lewis and Clark Expedition declared as “terrible, beautiful mountains.” Camp Easton is located on the east side of picturesque Lake Coeur d’Alene , considered one of the five most beautiful lakes in the world. To drive to Camp Easton, take Interstate 90 to exit #22 (7 miles East of Coeur d’Alene) go south toward Harrison on Idaho’s Scenic Byway , Highway 97. In a short 11 miles you are there! Surrounded by National Forest, Camp Easton has 383 acres of forested camp and ¾ miles of beautiful Coeur d’Alene lakefront for your camping enjoyment.

Farragut State Park is a State Park in Northern Idaho. During World War II, it was the “Farragut Naval Training Station”, a major training base of the U.S. Navy. The base was named after David Farragut the first Admiral in the U.S. Navy, the leading naval officer during the Civil War. The 4,000 acre park is located it the Southern tip of Lake Pend Oreille in the Coeur d’Alene Mountains, the northwest range of the Bitterroot Mountains. The park is east of Athol, Idaho and about thirty miles from the city of Coeur d’Alene.

Camp Grizzly & Camp Laird: Summer camp was first held at the site in 1922 by the Palouse Council. (It was National Forest land at that point.) The camp was called Camp Grizzly in honor of the former mining camp nearby. Official council summer camps continued to be held there through 1928. (In 1926, 1927 and 1928 the camp was under control of the Lewis and Clark Council as the Palouse Council had dissolved. The Lewis and Clark Council merged with the Spokane Area Council in late 1929 and became the Inland Empire Council).

Camp returned to the site in 1931 and was named Camp Laird (Allison Laird of Potlatch had passed away a short while before). Camp Laird operated each summer at the site from 1931 through 1939 and then again in 1941 and possibly 1942. (I cannot find proof about 1942). The property was officially given to the Inland Empire Council in a ceremony in 1938. (The Lewis-Clark Council was reformed in 1945 and the deed for this property was transferred to them by the Inland Empire Council in 1947 or 1948.) Summer Programs returned to the site in either 1950 or 1951 by the Lewis-Clark Council and used the original name Camp Grizzly. The camp continues to operate there as Camp Grizzly even after the Lewis-Clark Council merged with the Inland Northwest Council in 1992. [Thank you to Greg Mott for the preceding information]. Click here for more history

Camp Ledgerock or Ledgerock Scout Reservation is a camp that is part of the present day Inland Northwest Council.

Camp Little Lemhi of the current day Grand Teton Council is nestled among the tall pines of the Yeaman Creek Canyon, just below the Palisades Dam in Idaho. The creek flows into a trout-filled lake where swimming and boating become favorite pastimes in the heat of the day.

Camp Morrison is located in the Idaho Central Rocky Mountains adjacent to Payette Lake in the Payette National Forest, 100 miles north of Boise, Idaho and three miles east of McCall, Idaho. It is the main summer camp for the Ore-Ida Council.

Salmon River High Adventure Base of the Ore-Ida Council is located on the Salmon River near Riggins Idaho, 185 miles north of Boise, Idaho. The SRHAB welcomes youth of Varsity and Exploring age who are ready for a challenging high adventure of river running, hiking and rappelling.

High in the Sawtooth Mountains, the Cape Horn Scout Reservation offers Biathlon, Skeet Shooting, Water-craft design and building, Real life problem solving, Zip Line, Black Powder, & much more.

I'm not sure if this is the same property, but the Lutherhaven Ministries website (8/2008) discussed their present day Shoshone Base Camp. "Shoshone is a true mountain retreat at the western edge of the ruggedly famous Bitterroot Mountains at the confluence of Shoshone Creek and the North Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River. Dormitory lodging provides ideal facilities for large youth group gatherings, and three large guest houses provide private, family-style accommodations for families and smaller groups up to 60. Wilderness adventure abounds, literally out our back door: mountain hikes, nationally-renowned mountain biking, inner-tubing down the river, rock climbing, and plenty more all take place from the comfort of a well-maintained and home-style camp environment."

The previous owner of this patch pictured below was Fred Locke of Gooding, Idaho. Recently Fred was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch through Twin Falls, Idaho as a result of his many years as a volunteer for the Boy Scouts.

Camp Tapawingo of the Mountainview Council (formerly the Boise Area Council) was located on Payette Lake. Today it is called Camp Morrison and is the main Camp of the Ore-Ida Council. The site has been used as far back as the early 1960s, as Jim Pfost has pictures on his website of him there in 1960. Was also called Tapawingo in 1979.

Boy Scout cabins at Camp Tendoy on Scout Mountain outside of Pocatello, Idaho. The camp was built by CWA (Civil Works Administration) workers in the 1920s.

Civil Works Administration (CWA) workers create a new road into Camp Tendoy, a Boy Scout camp at Scout Mountain near Pocatello, Idaho.

Camp Treasure Mountain Camp of the Tetons of the current day Grand Teton Council (formerly the Teton Peaks Council) is on Treasure Lake.

"The Teton Peaks Council was formed in March of 1925 with Harold S. Alford as the first commissioner. The Council consisted of troops in the Idaho counties of Custer, Butte, Lemhi, Fremont, Madison, Jefferson, Bonneville, Bingham, and Teton Counties as well as Teton County in Wyoming. In 1939, the council formed the Treasure Mountain Scout Camp..." (Credit to Arthur Porter Special Collections, BYU-Idaho Family History Center, Rexburg, Idaho 4/2009).

Camp Waha, Inland Empire Council was located SE of Lewiston, Idaho on Waha Lake. This 180-acre reservoir with 3 miles of shoreline are administered by the Lewiston Orchards Irrigation District. Lake Waha is part of the Lewiston Orchards Project. "It appears to only have been used for a few years in the 1940's as site for troop summer camping. It is likely that Waha transferred ownership to the Lewis Clark Council (based in Lewiston, Idaho) after the Lewis Clark Council split from the Inland Empire Council in the mid 1940's." Two patches are known including the 1945 round, below, and a felt rectangle (1947) that was worn below the triangle Lewis-Clark Council patch. (quotes courtesy of Dana Bonstrom).

New York Times 9/3/1922: "A score of Lewistion (Idaho) Scout at their Summer camp on Lake Waha, saw flames at the Tannahill Summer home nearby." The scouts helped the home owner put out a grass fire.

Camp Wilson of the Ore-Ida Council. Located on the South Fork of the Boise River. This might be a troop camp. Existed back to at least the early 1960s as Jim Pfost on his website has pictures of him there in 1963 and 1964.