San Gabriel Valley Council - Camps

Camps

• Holt Scout Ranch (now closed) was an SGVC camp located in the San Bernardino Mountains. The camp was named in honor of Herbert Brayton Holt on June 15, 1968. Prior to that time, the camp was known as Camp Cedar Canyon and opened in 1955. In 1975, the camp was sold to a private party. The camp was located off SR-38. 34°05′27″N 116°58′01″W / 34.0907°N 116.96684°W / 34.0907; -116.96684 (Holt Scout Ranch) The fire access road, which started at the hairpin curve on SR-38 connected to the camp entrance road. Just before the camp entrance (where the camp director's home was located), the fire access road forked to the left to make its way up the mountain.

• Camp Eaton, (now closed) was formally called Camp Cumorah Crest. It had five conference rooms, dining hall, winterized dormitories for 125, pool, softball, basketball in the San Gabriel Mountains, part of the Angeles National Forest, off Hwy 2, the Angeles Crest Highway, on Sulphur Spring Road near Mt. Wilson. It was more of conference center than a Camp. It as sold when the SGVC started operating the Camp at Holcomb Valley in 2005. It was called Camp Eaton for the support of the camp from the Eaton Family operators of the Forest Lawn Memorial Parks in Southern California.34°20′55″N 117°59′02″W / 34.3485°N 117.984°W / 34.3485; -117.984 (Camp Eaton)

• Camp Huntington opened in 1920 (now closed) was at the mouth of Rubio Canyon. Many Scouts would take the Pacific Electric street cars (the Red Car) and then hike to camp. The camp was started by Henry Huntington. The camp was near entrance of the Mount Lowe Railway, closed in 1938. By the early 1960s, the city's population had expanded and there were now houses built right up to the Camp's fence line. So, it as decided to close the camp, as it was now in the town of Altadena.

• Camp San Antonio (now closed) was opened on Mount Baldy till 1970. Because of the closing of Catalina Island during World War II, there was a need for a summer camp close to the Council, so Camp San Antonio was opened. Camp San Antonio was located just South of the current Manker Flats Campground at 6,300 feet. Camp San Antonio was closed in the 1970s.34°15′44″N 117°38′01″W / 34.2622272°N 117.6336658°W / 34.2622272; -117.6336658 (Camp San Antonio)