PROGRAMS AND CAMPS
Camps
Members and leaders of Northern Star Council have access to
some of the nation's finest camps. Click on the links
below to find out more about each. These links currently
take you to the respective Viking or Indianhead Council website
camp information page as we build our new combined
NorthernStarBSA.org website.
This property is located just south of Osceola, Wisconsin, on
the St. Croix River. It has 20 beautiful wooded acres with a
1940's era cottage located on the property. It makes for an
excellent camping area for such things as canoe trips on the St.
Croix River or an overnight location for climbing trips to
Taylors Falls.
Located five miles northeast of Stillwater, MN and three
miles north of Houlton, WI. The camp boasts 260 acres along the
St. Croix River with year-round camping, 17 winterized cabins,
tent campsites, and a one-mile trail to a remote backpacking
site .
This camp is one hundred and ten acres nestled on the banks
of the St. Croix river. The camp is a unique property which can
provide many activities; swimming pool, fishing, tennis courts,
basketball, volleyball, softball, BB gun, archery, hiking
trails, canoes, and rowboats, sledding, snowshoeing, broomball,
& crafts. Kiwanis provides a dining hall for 120 people, a 36
person dormitory, six sleeping cabins, bunkhouse, and a
fellowship hall for 100 people. During the summer Kiwanis is
home to a resident Cub Camping program.
This resident summer camp is located in a beautiful
wilderness setting in northwest Minnesota near the town of Park
Rapids. With its 2400 acres of wooded land in the White Earth
State Forest, 8 miles of shoreline on Many Point and Round Lake,
and location adjacent to the 143,000 acres of the Tamarack
National Wildlife Refuge it’s the perfect place for your Scout
troop’s, or Venture crew’s, summer camp experience. Many Point
prides itself on its variety of program activities, quality of
advancement opportunities, great food and a
customer-service-oriented and Mission-focused camp staff.
Phillippo Scout Reservation
The reservation is located on the south shore of the Byllesby
Reservoir, three miles west of Cannon Falls, MN. The reservation
is four hundred and fifty acres of rolling fields, wooded
campsites and hills overlooking the Cannon River valley. During
the summer Phillippo is home to the Camp Akela resident Cub
Camp. Phillippo Scout Reservation features eight winterized
cabins, a 48 person Gwin Conference Center, campsites, cross
country ski trails, canoes, and a modern 400 person dining hall.
Phillippo is well suited for weekend tent camping, winter cabin
camping, unit camping and summer activities.
A year round camp located 4 miles north of Anoka on
Minnesota's state
Highway 47. Rum River is home to Cub Scout and Webelos camping
as well as a C.O.P.E. Course. It's 160 acres features wooded
campsites, two enclosed activity buildings, a sliding hill and a
year-round resident ranger to help facilitate your stay.
A year round camp located north of Annandale on Stearns County
Highway 44, covering 1,200 acres. Stearns is the home to Cub
Scout and Webelos camping as well as the Northwinds Winter Camp.
Conveniently located less than an hour NW of Minneapolis,
Stearns features Hiking, Lakes, Woods and over 1200 acres of
unspoiled beauty that is becoming hard to find today.
This camp is located on Long Lake in north-western Wisconsin,
20 miles north of Rice Lake. Encompassing more than 2,500 acres
of woodland area and over eight miles of shoreline, Tomahawk is
home to four sub camps for summer Boy Scout and Webelos resident
camps as well as the Snow Base Winter Camp.
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