Camps
The Lewis & Clark Council owns four outdoor education centers or council camps. Throughout the year, these properties support Scouting activities ranging from day programs to weekly camping.
Camp Joy, which is located near Carlyle, Illinois, is a 165-acre camp that includes a lake. The camp offers a traditional Boy Scout summer camping program as well as year-round camping opportunities. The camp contains 16 campsites, a dining hall, trading post, showers, first aid building, and a handicap accessible campsite. A part-time ranger manages Camp Joy. Boy Scout programs offered during the summer encompass a wide range of activities ranging from a full aquatics program to archery and rifle shooting as well as a Project COPE program and climbing tower.
Camp Sunnen is a 340-acre camp located in the Mark Twain National Forest outside of Potosi, Missouri. The camp is located on Sunnen Lake and the location provides the opportunity for Scouts to see true wilderness hiking, camping, and canoeing. Scouts have the opportunity to earn a variety of merit badges during summer camp including the golf and mountain biking. The camp includes a nature center, climbing tower, two family staff cabins, bunkhouses, a trading post, pavilions, a shooting sports area and tours of the "Mud Cave". The camp also boasts a full aquatics program, which allows for swimming, boating, and snorkeling. The camp employs a full time ranger and is open year round for camping by councils and other non Boy Scout organizations.
Camp Vandeventer, which is located near Waterloo, Illinois, is 156 acres of picturesque creek and rocky bluffs. During the summer, this camp becomes a Cub Scout specialty camp where parents and sons participate in all activities, which include aquatics, crafts, archery, BB gun, nature programs, games, sports, and excellent evening programs. Summer sessions offer crafts, games, archery, BB gun, swimming, and special noonday features. There are seven campsites, a trading post/lodge, two large pavilions, BB gun range, health lodge, small cabins, a new dining hall and a swimming pool with bathhouse. Throughout the year, the camp supports Boy Scout camping trips and has a full time Camp Ranger.
Camp Warren Levis is a 285-acre camp located in Godfrey, Illinois. The first summer camp took place in 1924, and has led a strong scouting program ever since. The camp has an amphitheater overlooking the recently refurbished lake, a trading post, nature lodge, teepees, winter lodge, dining hall, swimming pool with bathhouse, shooting sports area, Project COPE area with a zip line, tower, and wall, lake, and a horsemanship program. There are 13 campsites as well as a program field. Throughout the year, the camp is open for camping and programs including Boy Scout camp with Merit Badge Day Camp, Cub Scout weekend camps, Cub Scout Day Camp and a Webelos Resident Camp. The camp also employs a full time Camp Ranger.