Camp Teetonkah

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Camp Teetonkah is a Boy Scout camp in the Great Sauk Trail Council. Camp Teetonkah is located near Grass Lake, Michigan, and is located on Wolf Lake. Camp Teetonkah was founded in 1912 and the council took the title in 1916 or 1917. Originally Camp Teetonakah was located on a 50 acre piece of land, but now is a 200 acre camp. Camp Teetonah has had many challenges to face over the years, including temporary closure and an attempt to sell the camp by its council owners. However, fierce resistance and a fundraising campaign to prevent its sale by Teetonkah loyalists forced the council to abandon the sale plan and eventually to invest in refurbishing existing facilities, construction of new ones, and reinstatement to very active use by the council and its membeship. The camp is steeped in its long and substantial history of decades of affliation with area members of the Boy Scouts of America's honor society, the Order of the Arrow.

1 History
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

Camp Teetonkah is argued to be the oldest, or at least one of the oldest Boy Scout Camps still in existence in the United States.

In 1913, the Jackson Boy Scout Concil held it's first Summer Camp at Camp Teetonkah, and continued to hold summer camps for approximately 80 years. At that point in time, the camp stopped holding summer camps, and hasn't held any since. There is talk of plans to bring a summer camp back to Camp Teetonkah in the next few years.

Currently, Camp Teetonkah is a mostly a weekend camp. The camp is available for local troops who would like to hold a troop or patrol weekend camping trip. Only a few groups use the camp for more than a weekend campground including the National Youth Leadership Training Course for the Great Sauk Trail Council, who likes to be called DeerTrails.^[1]

In 2006 and 2007 a new dining hall was built containing an industrial kitchen, several showers, bathrooms, and a large dining room.