Summer 2024: Are You Ready for Adventure?

Explore the many programs we are offering to scouts and their families. Choose your program and start your summer adventure!

Click any program level below to learn about summer camps and get links to the different camps and programs. Also, be sure to check out our annual NCAC Summer Camp Guide to area summer camps run by the National Capital Area Council.

2024 NCAC Summer Camp Guide [issuu]

2024 NCAC Summer Camp Guide [pdf]

  • District Day & Twilight Camps: Conducted by volunteers from the local area, each district’s day camps offer a variety of different activities to allow campers to experience outdoor programming around the camp’s theme. Most camp’s activities include STEM, nature, shooting sports, games, and possibly aquatics.
  • Camp Snyder: Choose a camp format that suits you: Day Camp or Resident Weekend.
  • Camp Ross: Pick a week at Goshen Scout Reservation’s dedicated overnight Webelos Camp – Camp Ross.
  • Goshen Scout Reservation: Choose the camp that best suites your unit – whether that’s program-oriented Camp Olmsted, traditional Camp Bowman, or Goshen’s specialty camp, Camp Marriott. There are programs for new Scouts, older Scouts, and all Scouts in between.
  • Camp Catoctin BSA: Francis Scott Key District’s entirely volunteer-run resident camp operates one week a year. In addition to standard camp program, we excel in offering unusual merit badge programs with our experienced subject matter experts. Previously known at Camp Airy BSA.
  • Provisional Camp at Goshen Scout Reservation: Can’t make it to camp with your Troop or Crew? Go to camp on your own or with a group of your friends.
  • Scout Specialty Week at Camp Snyder: Attend on your own, with your unit, or with your friends and work on some specialty merit badges at some of the unique Camp Snyder facilities, including Michael’s Woodshop, Sally’s STEM Shack, and more.
  • Lenhok’sin High Adventure: Hit the Trail – whether by foot or by boat with our local High Adventure base. Your unit can backpack the trails of Goshen, visit the peaks and stop at our outposts for a variety of adventure activities. Or paddle down the James River on our Canoe Trek. For ages 13 and up.
  • High Adventure Base Trips: Take the trip of a lifetime with the NCAC High Adventure Committee’s trips to National High Adventure Bases of Philmont, Seabase, and Northern Tier. The logistics are planned so you can focus on the fun! For individuals and groups. Ages 14 and up (13 with criteria).
  • GOAT: The Goshen Order of the Arrow Trail crew is a two week program for Order of the Arrow youth hosted at Lenhok’sin High Adventure. Ages 14 and up.
  • Join Camp Staff: Be on camp staff at your favorite camp for this summer, whether that’s a Goshen camp or at Camp Snyder.
  • Lenhok’sin High Adventure: Hit the Trail – whether by foot or by boat with our local High Adventure base. Your unit can backpack the trails of Goshen, visit the peaks and stop at our outposts for a variety of adventure activities. Or paddle down the James River on our Canoe Trek.
  • High Adventure Base Trips: Take the trip of a lifetime with the NCAC High Adventure Committee’s trips to National High Adventure Bases of Philmont, Seabase, and Northern Tier. The logistics are planned so you can focus on the fun! For individuals and groups.
  • GOAT: The Goshen Order of the Arrow Trail crew is a two week program for Order of the Arrow youth hosted at Lenhok’sin High Adventure.
  • Join Camp Staff: Be on camp staff at your favorite camp for this summer, whether that’s a Goshen camp or at Camp Snyder.