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How do Scout and 4-H camps work?
Here is what Ohio 4-H, two Girl Scout councils and one Scout reservation print about attending camp. The 4-H page sends families to a county office, and the Scout reservation’s timeline is addressed to units.
Listed, not checked. We have not visited, inspected, rated or endorsed any camp named on this page, and a camp being named here says nothing about how it is run. Each fact is the operator’s or the agency’s own wording, with a link to the page it came from. Read the questions to ask and put them to the camp yourself.
How does 4-H camp work?
For more information about how to attend your county's 4-H camp, contact your local OSU Extension Office
(ohio4h.org) In 4-H’s own description: It is youth challenging themselves on a high ropes course, braiding a friendship bracelet, swimming in a lake, learning a line dance, and becoming lifelong friends with their cabinmates.
(ohio4h.org)
Ohio 4-H prints its camp sites with addresses. Three of them:
4-H Camp Clifton 2256 Clifton Road Yellow Springs, OH 45387
(ohio4h.org)4-H Camp Graham 164 Springhill Road, Box 185 Clarksville, OH 45113
(ohio4h.org)4-H Camp Conger 2195 Walnut Road North Fairfield, OH 44855
(ohio4h.org)
We found no dates or fees on the state page when read; as quoted above, it sends families to the county office. Ohio 4-H’s list of camp sites.
How do Girl Scout camps work?
Scouts
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio
Official page: gsneo.org
- Overnight camp
Overnight camp is a camping experience in which campers live at either Camp Ledgewood or Camp Timberlane.
(gsneo.org) no year in this line- When the guide comes out
Overnight Camp opportunities are listed in the Summer Camp Guide available in January.
(gsneo.org) no year in this line
No registration date, ages or prices were in the page text we read.
Scouts
Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland
Official page: gsoh.org
- Overnight camp
Ready for an overnight experience at our Camp Molly Lauman?
(gsoh.org) no year in this line- Day camp
Get outdoors this summer with our council day camp opportunities!
(gsoh.org) no year in this line
No dates, ages or prices were in the page text we read.
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio also has a camp page; when we read it there was nothing on it we could quote about dates, ages or prices.
How does a Scouting America summer camp work?
Scouts
Beaumont Scout Reservation (Lake Erie Council, Scouting America)
Official page: beaumontscoutreservation.org
- Timeline
2027 Registration Timeline & Payment Schedule
(beaumontscoutreservation.org) the line prints 2027
August 2026 – January 31, 2027 Reserve your unit's place at Beaumont for Summer Camp 2027. $200 unit deposit required.
(beaumontscoutreservation.org) the line prints 2026 and 2027- Per-Scout deposit
February 1 – February 11, 2027 A $100 non-refundable deposit per Scout is due.
(beaumontscoutreservation.org) the line prints 2027- Early rate cut-off
Full payment must be received by April 26, 2027 to qualify for the Early Bird rate.
(beaumontscoutreservation.org) the line prints 2027
The timeline’s first line, quoted above, is about reserving a unit’s place. We found nothing on the page about a family registering on its own.
We read only the Lake Erie Council’s reservation. We did not find the camp pages of the councils serving Columbus and Cincinnati.
Are these camps registered or permitted?
Our suggestion: ask each one. The definition of a resident camp is on the overnight camp permits page. One of the exemptions from day camp registration is about length: (1) A child day camp that operates for two consecutive weeks or less and for no more than a total of two weeks during each calendar year;
(codes.ohio.gov, effective January 1, 2025)