Beaumont Scout Reservation

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Beaumont Scout Reservation

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Owner	Greater Saint Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
Location	High Ridge, Missouri
Country	United States of America
Founded	1954
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The Beaumont Scout Reservation is 2,400 acres (9.7 km²) of Scout property operated by the Greater Saint Louis Area Council. It is located in High Ridge, Missouri.^[1]

1 History
2 Camps and Facilities
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

[edit] History

The property for Beaumont was acquired during the early 1950s. It was dedicated in 1954. The property was the beginning of the period of transition for the Saint Louis Council that would continue to 1965 with the dedication of the S-F Scout Ranch and the sale of the Irondale Scout Reservation, Lion's Den, and Bereton Explorer Base. Beaumont was opened as a Boy Scout Camp and served in that capacity until the mid-1980s when its summer programs were redesigned to primarily serve Cub Scouts.

[edit] Camps and Facilities

Within Beaumont, there are many camps and camporee areas that are for scout use, as well as a set of hiking trails that go throughout the reservation, a climbing tower, a low and high ropes course, a scoutmaster's chapel, a maintenance building and ranger's station, houses that the rangers live in, a mud cave, multiple cabins, and Sverdrup lodge, which is used for training and Wood Badge.

[edit] Camp Grizzly

Camp Grizzly is a Cub Scout area which includes a program hall, multiple pavilions and campsites, an activity field, a council ring, and Cub World.

[edit] Camp May

Camp May is a Webelos camp that conducts Webelos week-long and Webelos Mini-camp each summer. Some of the facilities are used for other purposes in the off-season. Camp May contains numerous campsites, a pool and shower houses, a dining facility, a council ring, a trading post, an activity field, a gazebo, a scoutcraft cabin, an archery an BB gun range, a nature lodge, and a parade field.

[edit] Nagel Explorer Base

Nagel Explorer Base is a camp in the back of Beaumont that is primarily used for Exploring and Venturing programs, but it also host's the council's horse camp for 1 week every-other summer. It's facilities include adirondacks, a program hall, a horse stable, a program field, a horse corral, and an equipment building.