12 - 18 July 2026
Schedule your summer around it
2025 Highlights Photos: 2024
Photos: 2025
32 scouts (55% of the registered scouts) and 9 adults attended summer camp at Camp Conestoga in 2025. The scouts earned Honor Unit. The scouts earned 151 merit badges (average 4.7 merit badges per scout) and 12 partial merit badges across 49 different merit badges. The scouts worked 30 hours of conservation project work around our campsite and a nearby site. Star scouts earned three hours of conservation project for Life Rank. Those needing similar hours for camping merit badge and other rank earned their hours. First year scouts learned and completed 39 rank requirements for Scout through First Class ranks. All of them earned Scout rank. We had numerous scouts ready to Board or ranked up to other ranks. The troop held a merit badge clinic for Citizenship in Society where 17 scouts completed that merit badge. We culminated the week in a troop swim party where we crowned champions for the best belly flop, largest splash, and farthest underwater swim before playing shark and minnows and other aquatic games.
2026 Summer Camp
Summer Camp Outing Coordination Team
Coordinator: Dave Berchtold, bsa.berchtold@gmail.com
Assistant: Nick Wongchauwart
Medical: Dr. April Lehman
Where: CAMP CONESTOGA (255 Conestoga Camp Road, Somerset, PA 15501) in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania, about a 4-hour drive from Dublin. We will be at the Seneca lakeside campsite - best site at the campsite - beautiful and central. We have been going to this site for many years.
Sign Up: Starts Feb 2026
Departure Schedule: Arrive St. Patrick's Church at 7 am, Sunday, July 12th in Class A and with gear to load in trailer. Muster/Attendance 7:15 a.m. followed by photo. Driver briefing 7:15 am. Departure 7:45 a.m.
Requirements for Parents to Attend the Week: Sign up with the troop in Feb 2026, register with Scouting America as a leader, Current Scouting America Youth Protection Training through 18 Jul 2026, Scouting Medical Form Parts A, B, and C (requires physical examination), and medical insurance card. Physical examination must be 01 Jul 2025 or later.
Top 10 Reasons Scouts Should Attend Summer Camp:
10. Learn skills; part of the journey of turning boys into men
9. Develops independence and self-confidence; get past the fear
8. Love camping
7. Develops social skills; unplug from technology
6. Best summer camp value for the money
5. Launching platform for growth and advancement and staying with scouting
4. Develop leadership skills, followership skills; and making ethical decisions
3. Merit badge attainment in short period of time
2. Develops relationships with peers; happier scouts
1. It’s safe fun; hang with friends; gives mom and dad a vacation
Top 10 Myths About Summer Camp
10. I can only eat mom’s cooking
9. I will never like camping or the outdoors
8. One of my parents has to be there
7. Bathrooms are latrines and there’s no hot water for showers
6. It’s expensive and of low value
5. I won’t have any friends there with me
4. I can’t go because I don’t have a tent
3. I have special needs so can’t go
2. I’m not missing out on anything if I don’t go
2. I'm too young to go; I'll get homesick; I have to shower in open shower space
1. I will get bullied; unsafe
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