187 Camp Mountaineer Road, Morgantown, WV  26508

Camp Mountaineer opened the gate to summer resident camping for the Scouts of the Mountaineer Area Council in 1954.  Since then, thousands of Scouts have enjoyed the summers they spent in this great Scouting environment of over 1,000 acres.

Rental Fees

Prices listed below are for Scouting America Cub Scout packs, Scouts BSA troops, Venture crews, and Exploring posts.  

Non-Scout groups must contact Mountaineer Area Council for pricing and reservations and must be able to provide a certificate of liability insurance with policy limits of at least one million dollars ($1,000,000), naming Mountaineer Area Council and Boy Scouts of America as a co-insured.

Dining Hall ($200 per day)

  • Commercial kitchen / Water / Indoor Restrooms / Electric / Heat

Buildings ($80 per night)

  • Green Acres Lodge
    • Cots / Electric / Water / Indoor Restroom / Stove / Refrigerator
  • Hott Building
    • Cots / Electric / Water / Indoor Restrooms & Showers / Stove / Refrigerator / 
 Pavilions ($55 per day)
  • Cub Scout Pavilion (Upper Parking Lot)
  • Dining Hall Pavilion
  • Ecology Pavilion
  • Handicraft Pavilion
  • Staff City Pavilion

Campsites

  • Staff City ($65 per night) – cement pads with electric at each
  • Sites with 4 Adirondack shelters with 6 bunks in each (24 total bunks) ($45 per night)
    • Cherokee
    • Miami
    • Mingo
    • Mohawk
    • Seneca
  •  Rustic sites with pavilions ($30 per night)
    • Apache
    • Blackfoot
    • Crow
    • Navajo
    • Ojibwa
    • Shawnee
    • Sioux

Program features (COPE, climbing, rifle, archery, etc) may be available for additional pricing depending on staff availability.

Camp Ranger


John Carder, 304-777-9370

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General History

Initially there were six campsites – Cherokee, Mingo, Seneca, Delaware, Shawnee, and Catawba.  With no central dining facility, all meals were cooked patrol-style in the troop sites.  The rifle range was at the site of the current Green Acres Lodge and the Trading Post was a room attached to the old maintenance building at the top of the hill.  Tent platforms were not provided during the early years.

A major capital fundraising campaign during 1960-1961 throughout the council generated enough financial support to enable the construction of a winter lodge, new rifle range, and the current dining hall.  These facilities greatly enhanced the camp program beginning in 1963.  In recent years, the generous support of the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust among other partners and donors has allowed the Mountaineer Area Council to complete many facility improvements including the addition of 20 Adirondack shelters to campsites around camp, a 60-foot hexagon climbing and rappelling tower, installation of bathroom facilities at select buildings, and those listed below.

Other significant improvements:

  • 1996 – High COPE Course opens
  • 2013 – Shooting Sports Complex opens
  • 2014 – Reconstruction of High COPE Course
  • 2014 – Dual 330-foot Zip Line opens
  • 2015 – Dual 1/4-mile Zip Line opens
  • 2017 – Welcome Center opens
  • 2019 – Trading Post opens
  • (coming soon 2026-2027) – Reconstruction of Council Circle
  • (coming soon 2026-2027) – Climbing Tower Pavilion

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