Camp Yawgoog Opens for its 100th Anniversary Season

Camp Yawgoog welcomes Boy Scouts across the Northeast for its 100th anniversary year beginning today, Monday, June 27. The 1,800-acre reservation, located in Rockville, RI, serves over 6,400 Scouts during the eight-week summer season. Known as a “Scout Adventureland, Forever,” Yawgoog is the country’s second oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp and is owned and operated by the Narragansett Council of the Boy Scouts of America.

The camp not only serves Scouts from Rhode Island and throughout New England, but also attracts many Scouts and volunteer adult leaders from nearly every state on the East Coast and from across the country.

To celebrate Yawgoog’s centennial year, alumni from across the country will reunite at camp for a Homecoming Weekend on July 29-31.

“Yawgoog has a long and storied history in Rhode Island,” said Tim McCandless, the Narragansett Council’s Scout Executive/CEO. “The camp has not only inspired many young men over the years, but 100 years later it still continues to be a place where young men learn lessons about life and leadership that will serve them well in the 21st Century.”

This year, over 200 counselors will teach classes in 40 subject areas including robotics, medicine, camping, small boat sailing, fishing, lifesaving and first aid. Courses are also offered to adult leaders who would like to improve their skills in technology, basic leadership, CPR and more.

Scouts can attend any of Yawgoog’s three separate camps: Camp Three Point, Camp Medicine Bow, and Camp Sandy Beach. Each Camp has its own traditions - a color, songs, and cheers – but they all share reservation program facilities.

The camps give Scouts the opportunity to participate in activities such as sailing, kayaking, archery, climbing, and rappelling. Scouts are also given the chance to work in outdoor classrooms to improve their environmental science, astronomy, and geology knowledge. More than 200 Scouts learn how to swim at Camp Yawgoog each summer and over 250 boys earn the Mile Swim Award.

“The skills and life lessons the Scouts learned at Yawgoog will stay with them forever,” added McCandless.

To learn more about Camp Yawgoog and how you can participate in the 100th anniversary celebration, please visit: http://www.yawgoog.org/.

About the Narragansett Council: The Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America’s mission is to serve others by instilling values in young people and, in other ways, prepare them to make ethical choices over their lifetime in achieving their full potential. The Narragansett Council offers a program for boys and young men ages 6 to 21 and young women ages 14 to 21, serving over 13,000 in Rhode Island, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Pawcatuck, Connecticut.