[21]:17 The trading post offers: branded apparel, camping supplies, candy, craft supplies, embroidered patches, Scouting literature, Scouting supplies, snacks, and sodas. Summer Camp Season Hours (pending changes in June 2020): Monday - Friday: 9am till 5pm & 7pm till 9pm, (Cateogry - Lodging Weekend Rentals & Activity Centers), (Category - Lodging Weekend Rentals & Lodging Weekday Rentals), Reservation Headquarters – guest restrooms located outside right side rear of building, Saffran Shower House – showers, sinks and toilets, Oest Administration – bathrooms, no kitchen, During very cold periods, some lodges will not have indoor water, Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation, Baltimore Area Council, Shooting Sports Instructor Training Dates. [21]:18, In addition to summer camps and weekend camping, the reservation hosts other Scouting events. [4] Later Saffran, Oest, and Spencer each built piers to access Lake Straus.
Broad Creek’s Cub Resident summer camp is one of a small number of Cub Scout Camps across the country where Cub Scouts can stay overnight! [16] The camp also offers a 30-foot outdoor screen, often used for movies. Even though we've moved to Camp Saffran, we're still the same highly-acclaimed program and staff that we have been for over 30 years - but now with improved program and facilities to enhance the Cub Camp experience you know and love. [21]:12 Adult training programs available include: Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO), Cubmaster Leader Specifics, Religious Awards Awareness, Safe Swim Defense, Safety Afloat, This is Scouting, and Youth Protection. That charter land was divided by land patents.
[18] Other facilities include: archery range, bridge, camp staff areas, dam, family cabin area, filtration houses, Jacobs Health Lodge, parade ground, pump stations, ranger's house, rifle range, Rosenberg Welcome Center, shop, skeet range, stock control area, trading post, trap range, and water towers. Site Dan Beard can support 40 people and includes a lodge and trailer pad. In 2016 and 2017 Camp Spencer hosted a resident camp for the youngest youth called Cub Camp at Broad Creek. [21]:10 Each campsite includes a latrine with running water.
As a biocontrol remedy the Forest Service released over 2,300 Laricobius beetles into the forest. Units are encouraged to save and pack out any bottles, cans and paper used while camping at Broad Creek. Spencer reopened in 2015 as a specialty resident STEM camp. During the summer Camp Saffran focuses on older youth while Camp Spencer focuses on younger youth. The facilities at the reservation are used by 36,000 youth each year, 17% of whom are not affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America. Trained adult volunteers inject imidacloprid into soil. The invasive species hemlock woolly adelgid threatened the forest.