Los Angeles Area Council - Camps

Camps

• Cabrillo Beach Youth Waterfront Sports Center 33°42′54″N 118°17′03″W / 33.7150°N 118.2841°W / 33.7150; -118.2841 (Cabrillo Beach Youth Waterfront Sports Center)

In 1946, the LAAC leased the Cabrillo Camp property. It is located at the base of the cliffs directly below Fort MacArthur. The camp was open to both Scouts and other youth groups. The camp utilized the old military Quonset huts and portable trailers.

In the late 70s, the Port of Los Angeles granted the scouts a long-term lease.

With money donated by Steven Spielberg in 1987, the Spielberg Center opened a swimming pool, campgrounds, dining area, craft center, Scout Shop, staff quarters, boat house and amphitheater. The facility is 12.3 acres (0.019 sq mi; 0.050 km2) and the building is 25,000 square feet (2,300 m2) of Spanish and Mediterranean architecture.

• Firestone Scout Reservation (elev. 500 ft) 33°56′32″N 117°50′51″W / 33.9423°N 117.8474°W / 33.9423; -117.8474 (Firestone Scout Reservation) is a semi-primitive camp located just east of State Route 57 in Tonner Canyon between Diamond Bar and Brea, California. The facilities are available to most non-profit youth groups in addition to Scouting organizations.
• Forest Lawn Scout Reservation (elev. 5,300 ft) 34°15′04″N 117°07′37″W / 34.2511°N 117.1270°W / 34.2511; -117.1270 (Forest Lawn Scout Reservation) was formerly known as the Lake Arrowhead Scout Camps. FLSR is a group of Boy Scout and Cub Scout Resident Summer Camps located 3 miles (5 km) east of Lake Arrowhead, California on more than 2,000 acres (8 km2) in the San Bernardino National Forest.
  • Circle X Ranch at Big Horn is a Boy Scout Resident Summer Camp, opened in 1952 as Camp Big Horn.
  • Camp Pepperdine was a Cub Scout Resident Summer Camp for the 2007 and 2008 seasons; it was formerly a primitive camping facility that opened in 1960.
  • Camp Pitchess, (Now Closed) formerly Camp Cedar, opened in 1953 as a Cub Scout Resident Summer Camp; it burned in the Waterman Canyon Wildfire, October 2003.
  • Camp Pollock — adjacent to what was once Camp Pitchess, is a year-round training center with an indoor climbing wall and cabins. It opened for the 2009 season as the Cub Scout Resident Summer Camp.
  • John Wayne Outpost is a wilderness camping area that opened in 1979.
  • Northrop Family Camp opened in 1955 is now a staff housing area and used for select program activities.
• Log Cabin Wilderness Camp (elev. 9,640 ft) is a high adventure base camp located in the Inyo National Forest. The camp is near the Tioga Pass Road on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada bordering the Hoover Wilderness and Yosemite National Park.
• Camp Circle X - 34°06′32″N 118°56′11″W / 34.1090°N 118.9364°W / 34.1090; -118.9364 (Camp Circle X) Closed located in the Triunfo Pass (now part of the Santa Monica Mountains NRA, (operated by the NPS))