Abandoned Boy /Girl Camp Sites

Gypsy Heart

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Please add to the list if you have any locations to share....
Ohio
http://www.metroparks.org/_hillsAndDales/historicalTimeline.aspx

1906: Three Adirondack-style camps
are built (one each at Old Homestead, Sugar Camp, and Hills and Dales).

Adirondacks
http://www.cortlandbusiness.com/news/pressrelease.php?RECORD_KEY(pressreleases)=id&id(pressreleases)=201
Camp Pine Knot was the first of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks. Accessible only by boat in summer, and across the ice in winter, it is located at the heart of the Adirondack Park, along the shores of scenic Raquette Lake, and just down the road from Blue Mountain Lake and the famous Adirondack Museum

New York State's Forest Preserve
Newcomb, NY

http://www.aarch.org/html/santanoni/history.html
In 1971, a tragedy occurred in which one of the Melvins' grandchildren, eight-year-old Douglas Legg, was lost in the forest at Santanoni and never seen again. The family had no wish to return to the scene of this tragedy and quickly contracted with the newly formed Adirondack Conservancy Committee of The Nature Conservancy to purchase the entire Santanoni Preserve.

Buck Mountain Trail
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/countryman/hik_adr2a.htm
They once led to settlements, logging camps, hunting lodges, isolated farms, and
sugarbushes. Many Adirondack trails now follow these old routes. ...

Illinois
http://theshadowlands.net/places/illinois.htm
Georgetown - Old Boy Scout Camp - This used to be a boy scout camp. It shut down a few years ago and is now a nature preserve.

THE PRESQUE ISLE BOYS CAMP
http://www.crownofmaine.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?p=930&sid=c121b9b2c192291f5966fe070953a647

Southold NY
http://www.southoldhistoricalsociety.org/pinecrest_dunes.htm


New Jersey
http://www.weirdnj.com/stories/_night07.asp
 

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newtocoinhunting

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Gypsy Heart

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Thanks for adding Newtocoin....thats the point ...to have all of these sites easy accessible in the website....so people dont have to hunt for them....you have added some really good ones.....
 

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Did a lil search for ya some may still be inuse others not used, by states


this one list the oldest camps in the country
http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/9426/oldest

http://www.usscouts.org/databases/camp/ocd.cgi
http://www.mysummercamps.com/camps/Traditional_Camps/Boy_Scouts/index.html


Just an idea but "if" they are on private prop owned by the scout organization might be worth trying to get permission from the main body to hunt any of them, letting them know u are a professional and never leave dug holes or trash they might grant u permission. LOL plus if u offer to share any old finds like very old pins or nic naks (very valuble i hear) they might be more interested.
 

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