The
Ore-Ida Council, Boy Scouts of America invites you to visit
Camp
Morrison,
a premiere camp in the Idaho Central Rocky Mountains.
Camp
Morrisonis located
adjacent to the beautiful
Payette
Lake in the
Payette
National Forest just 100 miles north
of
Boise,
Idaho
and three miles east of
McCall,
Idaho.
A full program of Waterfront activities and merit badges are available on the shores of the beautiful Payette Lake. Activities include early morning swimming and Scouts can take full advantage of the beautiful waters of Payette Lake by earning merit badges in swimming and lifesaving.
The 1/4 mile nature trail connecting the waterfront activities to the main camp site of Camp Morrison winds through the dense forested Payette National Forest. A mature beautiful forest of Ponderosa Pine, Tamarack Pine, Douglas Fir, White Pine and Yellow Pine trees. There are frequent encounters with deer, fox and other forest going animals which are very common sites along the trails throughout the campground.
Camp Morrison offers twenty eight campsites for use by individual troops as they set up camp and participate in the great programs offered. Each site has running water for sinks, campfire pits. camp tables and clean sanitary latrine facilities. Showers with hot water are located at two different locations near the campsites for use of all campers.
Camp Dinning Hall
All meals at Camp
Morrison are prepared by the excellent staff of trained cooks, and
provide a menu of well balanced, nutritious, great tasting food served
in the camp Dining Hall. This allows Scouts to avoid the time consuming
process of preparing their own food. The tasty large portions receive
high marks from the campers each year.
Camp Highlights
In addition
to Scout rank advancement activities, there are more than 30 merit
badges offered at Camp Morrison including: astronomy, basketry, bird
study, camping, climbing, cooking, emergency preparedness,
environmental science, first-aid, fish and wildlife, pioneering, soil
and water conservation, wilderness survival, and woodcarving. The
waterfront offers opportunities for small boat sailing, snorkeling,
canoeing, fishing and swimming.
A
first class, small caliber shooting range is available for use of all
campers. A very popular activity is the shotgun shooting. Shooting
classes and recreational trap shoots are available in a safe and
well supervised facility. Gun skills are learned in a safe and well
supervised facility allowing campers to shoot clay targets and practice
their shooting skills. The archery range is available for obtaining the
archery merit badge and recreational
archery shooting for all campers.
CAMP MORRISON HIGHLIGHTS
♦ For 2011 we’re adding the Sculpture Merit Badge!
♦ For 2011 Ranger Quest, see the flyer at the end of this publication!
♦ In 2011 Industrial Ventilation, Inc. gifted two more Old Town Guide 160 Canoes!
♦ Cullimore Adventure Race (begun in 2009) in its 3rd year! This will be totally awesome!
♦ In 2010 Fredriksen Health Insurance and Industrial Ventilation, Inc. each gifted an Old Town
Guide 160 Canoe! Cabelas gave us an awesome discount on these canoes.
♦ In 2010 the Idaho Automatic Weapons Collector’s Association donated 8 new Savage Mark
I-FVT with aperture sights, $3200 value in more new shooting equipment! Thank you
I.A.W.C.A.!
♦ In 2010 we added PADI Certification and the Scuba Merit Badge!
♦ In 2010 the Nature Area added two new merit badge classes, Insect Study and Plant Science.
♦ In 2008 we began certifying Life Guards and Climbing Instructors as part of the program.
♦ In 2007 the National Rifle Association of America, Idaho Friends of NRA State Fund
Committee granted Camp Morrison $6,300 for new shooting equipment. We purchased four
Hawkin Thompson Center .50 Cal Black Powder Rifles and associated supplies; two
Anschutz M64 MPR 22 Target Rifles; a new Trap Thrower for our Shotgun Range; Spotter
Scopes; and two 14 Gun Locking Cabinets. Thank you Friends of the NRA for your support!
♦ 1 free leader with every 10 Scouts (To qualify, the leader must remain in camp all week with
the unit)
USEFUL INFORMATION
Driving directions to Camp Morrison from Boise, Idaho
Camping 
am of Waterfront activities and merit badges are available on the shores of the beautiful
Payette Lake. Activities include early morning swimming and Scouts can take full advantage of the beautiful waters of Payette Lake by earning merit badges in swimming and lifesaving.
ugh the dense forested Payette National Forest. A mature beautiful forest of Ponderosa Pine, Tamarack Pine, Douglas Fir, White Pine and Yellow Pine trees. There are frequent encounters with deer, fox and other forest going animals which are very common sites along the trails throughout the campground.
