“Finally Camp Hunt also has a special place in my heart. Because it was so close to Redlands, where my Scout troop was located we went to Camp Hunt a lot. My first “backpacking” trip was at Camp Hunt. It really wasn’t a backpack trip. There was a hill in Camp Hunt that was about 500 feet high and had a mile long dirt road that switched back up the side of it and a large flat meadow on the top of the hill. There was no water, no real campsites or fire pits or picnic tables or anything on top of that hill. We had to carry all of our water and food up there for the night. For a little 11 year old new scout this seemed like an expedition to Everest. We spent Friday night up there and all day Saturday practicing scout skills. We went on a “Snipe” hunt Friday night and our leaders told us frightening ghost stories about how the place where we were camping was haunted. I didn’t sleep at all that night.
Camp Hunt was also the place where I went through my Ordeal to be inducted into the Order of the Arrow. I remember sleeping silently the first night of the Ordeal with just my sleeping (no sleeping pad) on that same dirt road I had hiked up a year before on the infamous backpack trip and a year later would be the third camp where I help conduct the Ordeal Ceremony for new members of the Order of the Arrow. Unfortunately Camp Hunt was sold by the council. It is only a few miles from my house in Yucaipa and I drive up there every once in a while to relive the good memories I have there.”
Bob Blanck
“It was May 1970 as I hoisted my (too full) backpack on my back for a 1-mile hike into our campsite at Camp Hunt. Being from Redlands, Camp Hunt was close for our Troop’s May campout and my first as a Boy Scout. What fun! I learned how to work within the Cougar Patrol of Troop 34, lashings, orienting a map with a compass, sliding down “the hill”, and my first use of a dutch oven… oh, did that dump cake taste good on a Saturday evening.”
Rob Roberts
Camps Pages
- Ahwahnee Scout Reservation (1950 to 1980)
- Cabrillo Beach Youth Waterfront Sports Park
- Camp Allen
- Camp Anderson (1961 – ?)
- Camp Arataba (1924 to 1960)
- Camp Balboa
- Camp Bashor
- Camp Bill Lane
- Camp Bonanza
- Camp Chagres
- Camp Cherry Valley
- Camp Cibola
- Camp Cloghen
- Camp Drake
- Camp El Volcan
- Camp Emerald Bay
- Camp Emerson (1920 to Present)
- Camp Evans
- Camp Fletcher
- Camp French
- Camp Geronimo
- Camp Helendade (1960 – 2018)
- Camp Hilton
- Camp Hual-Cu-Cuish
- Camp Hunt (1958 – 1996)
- Camp Josepho
- Camp Kern
- Camp Lawton
- Camp Letten
- Camp Levi-Levi (1954 – 2019)
- Camp Myford
- Camp Potosi (1958 – 2021)
- Camp Procter
- Camp Rancho Alegre
- Camp Raymond
- Camp Richards ( 1923 – 1934)
- Camp Ro-Ki-Li
- Camp Silver Fir
- Camp Snow Flat
- Camp Sunnyside
- Camp Tahquitz – Barton Flats (1959 – Present)
- Camp Tahquitz – Idyllwild
- Camp Tecopa
- Camp Three Falls
- Camp Tulakes
- Camp Verdugo Oaks
- Camp Victorio
- Camp Whitehorse Lake
- Camp Whitsett
- Camp Will Ward
- Camp Wipala Wiki
- Camp Wolverton (1939 – 2011)
- Circle B Ranch (1955 – 1974)
- Circle B Scout Ranch
- Circle X Ranch (1949 – 1980s)
- Del Webb High Adventure Base (1974 – 2018)
- Double V Scout Ranch
- El Burrito Outpost
- Firestone Scout Reservation
- Heard Scout Pueblo
- Holcomb Valley Scout Ranch
- Holt Scout Ranch
- Hubert Eaton Scout Reservation
- Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center
- James Slauson Memorial Camp (1923 – 1986)
- Joshua Tree Scout Camp
- Jubilee Scout Ranch (1956 – 2003)
- Lake Pleasant Camp
- Lazy K Ranch (1976)
- Log Cabin Wilderness Camp
- Long Beach Sea Base
- Lost Valley Scout Reservation
- Martinez Lake
- Mataguay Scout Ranch
- Newport Sea Base
- Oso Lake Scout Camp
- Pardee Scout Sea Base
- R-C Scout Ranch (1944 – Present)
- Rancho Las Flores
- Robert Griffith Canoe Base
- San Diego Youth Aquatic Center (1994 to Present)
- Temescal Wilderness Camp
- Trask Scout Reservation (1951 – Present)
- Will J. Reid Scout Reservation (1944 to 2013)