2025 Winter Camp

December 19-22, 2025

Camp Barstow

100 Ruby Riser Rd.

Batesburg, SC 29006

What is Winter Camp:

The Winter Camp is held December 19-22 at Camp Barstow. This Winter Camp is held at the beginning of winter break just before Christmas.  A volunteer camp staff provides program help, guidance, and supervision in the area of Scout-craft, Nature, Arts, and Citizenship as well as many other specialty merit badges.   These may include merit badges that are required for the Eagle Scout rank.  

Scouts sign-up for Merit Badges in Bundles such as Fire Safety and Safety, Home Repairs and Painting, or Communications and Public Speaking.  They will stay in that Bundle for the day to complete work in both badges in that Bundle.  There are some Bundles that will only have one badge due to classwork and requirements.  Scouts will choose a Bundle per day (Saturday-Sunday-Monday) unless the Bundle takes multiple days such as Cook.  Some merit badges will have prerequisites to be completed before attending.  Each Bundle has a maximum number of Scouts that can attend each day and may not be able to "squeeze" more in.  This is similar to the Bundle program at Summer Camp at Barstow.

What will we do:

Provide advancement opportunities for Scouts
Familiarize youth with the Scouting program through the outdoor experience
Stimulate Troop programming before, during, and after attending camp
Make friends and have FUN
Share ideas and enjoy fellowship
Camp-wide campfires and competition
Adult service project available (please contact Dennis Ely for more info.)

Who can attend:

Any registered Scouts BSA youth may attend.  Adults must attend with Scouts, be registered and have current Youth Protection Training.  Troops must make sure that all Scouts attending have adequate two-deep adult supervision at all times.  Multi troops may pool their resources in order to provide an adequate number of Scouts and adult leaders to form a unit.  Scouts must attend with their troop or attend with another troop.  Scouts can not attend on on their own.

Cost to attend:

Cost to attend is $110.00 per Scout and $60.00 per adult.  There is an additional fee for Scouts who sign-up for Cooking Merit Badge ($30).  Rifle has an additional fee of ($10).

Merit Badge Bundles for Winter Camp 2025

Bundle                                    Badges                                    

Write - Journalism and Scholarship

Motor - Auto Maintenance and Farm Mechanics

CSI - Fingerprinting, Traffic Safety, Crime Prevention

Hacker - AI and Cybersecurity

Law - Law

Boat - Motorboating

Connect - Plumbing

Fix - Home Repairs and Painting

Climb - Climbing

Dic Golf - Disc Golf

Family - Family Life

Pets - Pets, Dog Care, Veterinary Medicine

Money - Personal Management

Arrow - Archery

Rifle - Rifle Shooting

Cook - Cooking (takes all three days A-B-C)

Community - Citizenship in the Community

Nation- Citizenship in the Nation

World- Citizenship in the World

Communicate - Communications and Public Speaking

Help - First Aid

Fly - Aviation

* Evening activities may include campfires, foosball, ping pong or chess tournaments, karaoke, and movie nights.  Add-on badges will be offered in the evenings such as Scouting Heritage, Programming, Game Design, and more

Merit Badge Bundles will be taught in one day during Winter Camp, either on unless otherwise noted:

            Saturday (morning and afternoon)(Class Period A)

            Sunday (morning and afternoon)(Class Period B)

            Monday (morning and afternoon)(Class Period C)

This will keep the Scouts in that Bundle together for a day limiting the exposure to others each day.

Scouts may sign up for up to three Bundles unless a bundle takes up more than one period (day).

Each bundle has a set number of Scouts that can attend each day.

*Scouts taking the Cook bundle will need to plan on all three days to complete this bundle.