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A message from the Editor . . .
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The Scout Camps USA
Camp Tour 2002 Trail
About Camp Tour 2002
The first Camp Tour (2000) came about as an afterthought. We were headed to
Nova Scotia to beat the summer heat and decided, at the last minute, to stop
at a dozen or so camps along the way from our home base in Chicago. Camp
Tour 2001 took us west to Washington State, the long way, through Texas.
Finally, we have finished (well, almost - just 3 camps left!) putting photos from 2001 up on the website. Camp Tour 2002 split up the photo team, with Associate Editor Mitzi Ponce visiting coastal camps from Georgia north to Virginia. Along this route, we brought rain with us -- Mitzi spent a number of rain-soaked days touring coastal camps (she says "up to her ankles," but what's a little rain at a Scout Camp?). From island camps to river camps, the "Barefoot Sea Trek" offers you photos of the lovely Scout camps that dot the southeastern U.S. coast.
The other half of the team played ping pong ball with a warm-up trip north to Minnesota, returning through Wisconsin and Iowa. The fire towers found at these northern camps offered a challenge to the older Scouter, but the "north country" always affords terrific photo opportunities. The "Bear Track" photos are quite a treat.
A quick stop home to check mail and pay bills and we were headed southeast with stops in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia. This leg of the summer tour took us to mostly mountain camps with some lowlanders thrown in for good measure. Reviewing our list of camps, we're surprised (but really shouldn't be) by the number of camps we toured in Virginia. Our only defense for overdoing Virginia so is that it's a beautiful state with friendly inhabitants and its Scout camps are equally beautiful and have equally friendly staff members. Be sure not to miss the "Mountain View" tour photos!
The Camp Tour series is a lot of fun for us. This summer's heat and rain provided some challenges and caused us to miss a few very popular mountain camps. We hope to catch them next summer, but we'll be working on the Third Edition of Scout Camps USA through most of summer 2003, and it's hard to know just where we'll be.
By itself or used as a companion to the book, we hope that the Camp Tour helps to satisfy your curiosity about some of the hundreds of summer camp opportunities available to your Scout Unit.
Hop on board and follow us to these Camp Tour 2002 locations:
Northern Trip - "Bear Track"
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