Camp Roosevelt, The way Boy Scout Camp should be!

Troop 5 from Austin Texas having their first lobster during week #1 at

Camp Roosevelt!

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2010 Camp Brochure - All Summer Camp Programs & Opportunities

Nestled at the base of Black Cap Mountain and surrounding Little Fitts Pond, Camp Roosevelt has served as Katahdin Area Council's outdoor classroom since 1921. Located just 15 miles east of Bangor, on more that 1800 acres of pristine forest land with a 300 acre pond. Camp Roosevelt is named in honor of President and conservationist Theodore Roosevelt. Katahdin Scout Reservation offers to its membership a year-round "Learning Center for Outdoor Skills".

Camp Roosevelt has 16 campsites that will accommodate up to 32 campers in each site. Campsites have either 2-person tents or 4-person Adirondacks complete with cots or bunks. Latrines and wash stands are at each site. Showers with hot running water are available at several locations through-out the camp. Two campsites, campsite Gary Robbins and the James E. West campsite are designed for units that need handicap facilities during the summer camp season.

The hallmark of Camp Roosevelt is the log cabin style "original" dining lodge. It was built in 1929 with logs harvested from the reservation and is one of the largest free standing log cabins in the country. Still a centerpiece of the Camp, this lodge is now used as the Camp Roosevelt Program Lodge.

In 2006, many improvements and major additions were made to Camp Roosevelt as a result of the $2.5 million capital campaign. The largest structure built was the new log cabin style Dining Hall and Peter G. Vigue Welcome Center. In addition to this new facility that can seat and serve over 400 campers, new staff quarters quarters were built, a new handicap accessible campsite was created and a new sports field has been developed. Also, two new shower house and bathroom facilities were built to accommodate additional campers. 

Contact Camp Registrar Belinda Hoffses at 207-843-5981 bhoffses@bsamail.org to register your unit and reserve your site today!

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE REPLACED THE INDIVIDUAL SCOUT REGISTRATION CARDS WITH A UNIT ROSTER! PROVISIONAL SCOUTS WILL STILL NEED AN INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION!

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