What to Bring

Summer Camp Packing List (initialing items with permanent marker is recommended):

Scout Packing List:

• Sleeping bag and/or bedding/sleeping pad & pillow

• Full Class A uniform

  • Shirt

  • Neckerchief w/ slide

  • Scout pants / shorts

  • Belt

  • Hats

  • Hanger

• Several Class B T-shirts

• Bathing suit(s)

• Sneakers/hiking books and water shoes/flip-flops 

• Sweatshirt/jacket

• Poncho/rain gear

• Several changes of clothes, including Scout shorts and long pants, and some warm clothes for sleeping

• Bath towel(s)

• Toiletries

• Insect repellent

• Sun screen

• Scout Handbook (photocopy signed pages before leaving home)

• Flashlight, lantern and/or headlamp (w/ extra batteries)

• Pocket knife (optional and only with Totin' Chip)

• 2 Canteens/Nalgene water bottles

• Pens and small spiral notebook

• Merit badge schedule and any completed pre-requisites

• Camp map

• Orienteering compass

• Small knapsack/day pack/drawstring bag for daily use

• Medication/EpiPen if necessary (advise camp nurse ahead of time)

• 1/4 inch rope/clothesline (10-feet)

• Mosquito netting for over bed, either:

  • Pop-up net or 

  • Netting and four 1/2 inch diameter by 36-inch long dowels and duct tape to create corner posts on cot for netting

• Timepiece (wristwatch or otherwise)

• Hand sanitizer

• Labeled footlocker to hold the above items (link is a suggested style of footlocker).

• Camping chair

• Black trash bag(s)

• Ziploc bags (e.g. gallon size for wet clothes)

• Duct tape

• Playing cards, soccer ball, basketball, football, frisbee or the like, and/or reading material, for down time

• Fishing rod & reel/tackle (for Fishing Merit Badge; otherwise optional)

• SCOUT SPIRIT

  • PLEASE: Parents NO packing for your son; NO excessive amounts of food/snacks; NO massive footlockers

PARENTS must also wear Class A uniform shirt, Troop neckerchief and slide at breakfast and dinner in the dining hall.

Troop Gear (for leaders to bring):

• Battery charger

• Citronella candles for picnic tables

• Extra toilet paper

• Solo stove and fire starter

• Tiki torches and fuel

• LED string lights for picnic table area

• Milk carton for patrol and troop flag display

• Fantastic

• Toilet paper

• Paper towels

• Wipes

• 6 pack of lighters

• Two flag brackets for lean-to

• Cooler