Come to Camp Somers

Unit and Individual Camping

Troops - Resident Camping

Come with your troop and enjoy a great week at camp.  Participate in all our great programs, work on merit badges and have some fun at camp.

Individuals - Resident Camping

Our Provisional Camp Troop is an overnight program for Scouts who can't go to summer camp with their troop, or just want more weeks at camp. Work on more merit badges, or just have fun at camp in any of our program areas. We provide adult leaders with many years of troop leadership experience. Come for one or more weeks as an individual or with some of your friends. Backwoods Engineering Camp is a specialty camp held in mid August.

Trailblazer - Day Camp

Trailblazer Day Camp is a weeklong adventure geared toward first year Boy Scouts moving up from Webelos. Older Scouts are also welcome and they are placed in patrols with experienced Boy Scouts. Have fun in all of the camp program areas. You may also work on Tenderfoot to First Class rank requirements, outdoor skills, and age appropriate merit badges. The program offers new excitement each week. Bus transportation is provided from more than 50 locations throughout Morris, Sussex, and NW Somerset counties. Four sessions are offered Monday-Friday 8:45am until 4:15pm.

Aquatics - Resident Camp

Aquatics camp is an in-water adventure where Scouts experience off site kayaking and motor boating adventures. Scouts will learn the basics of sailing, kayaking, and rowing while traveling to different lakes and rivers in Northern New Jersey. While focused on fun aquatics activities Scouts can also work on earning Small Boat Sailing, Rowing, Kayaking, and Canoeing merit badges as well as earning the BSA Stand Up Paddleboarding award.

Backwoods Engineering Camp - Resident Camp

Backwoods Engineering Camp is a weeklong STEM experience for those who are interested in building and accomplishing tasks beyond the normal Scouts BSA pioneering program. Over the course of the week, the group will build trestle bridges, a signal tower, a catapult, a cable-stayed bridge, and rafts using spars and ropes.

Shooting Sports Camp - Resident Camp

Improve your marksmanship skills in a fun and safe environment. Rifles, shotgun shooting, archery, competitions, NRA Marksmanship program, and more. Become totally immersed in shooting sports. Scouts will learn the basics of marksmanship and experience shooting sports beyond the scope of traditional Scout camp merit badges.

Climbing Camp - Resident Camp

Climbing camp is a week-long adventure that gives campers the opportunity to develop their skills and take their climbing to the next level. Experiences will include  some of the best natural rock climbing in New Jersey as well as artificial walls, learning to belay, and rappel. Scouts BSA participants over the age of 16 will have the opportunity to earn BSA Climbing Instructors In Training certification, the first step in becoming a BSA Climbing Instructor.

Our Summer Camp programs gives you the opportunity to

• Earn merit badges while learning new skills
• Mountain bike our great trails
• Do some great fishing on our ponds
• Stargaze with our ecology staff
• Eat at our dining hall - food service is fantastic!
• Climb a 14 foot tall iceberg in our lake
• Try canoeing, kayaking and funyaking
• Take part in our awesome COPE program with plenty of open COPE sessions.
• Climb one of our natural rock walls or try our climbing towers
• Cook your own steak dinner one evening in your campsite
• Win our camp wide cooking contest
• Develop teamwork and leadership skills
• Enjoy a nice hot shower 24 hrs a day in our clean shower and bath house.  There are plenty of flush toilets and individual shower stalls.
• Learn Tenderfoot through First Class Scout skills at our first year camper Dan Beard program