Camp Patiya
Camp Patiya provides a close, safe area for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, other groups, and their families to experience camping in the Rocky Mountains.
Description:
A subsidiary of Longs Peak Council, Boy Scouts of America, Camp Patiya is a volunteer-run group that seeks to maintain the buildings and grounds of a 20-acre former Camp Fire Girls camp so as to provide low-cost camping opportunities for youth groups. As landowners, we seek to manage our forest in a way to mitigate fire and pest damage, and to introduce boys and girls to service projects that help them understand that they are stewards of the land.
History:
Camp Patiya was acquired by the Longs Peak Council from the Camp Fire Organization in April, 1987. The Camp Fire Council purchased the original twenty acres for the camp in 1960 and began holding group and family camps shortly thereafter.
The buildings on site were constructed between 1963 and 1981. The name, Camp Patiya, "At Home in the Hills" was given by the Camp Fire Council in December, 1967. In 1977, an additional ten acres of land was donated, bringing the camp to its present size.
Camp Fire continued to hold group camping year round and Day Camps in the summers. In the 1980's, membership in Camp Fire declined. In 1987, it was determined that the goals for operating the camp could best be met by transferring the ownership to Longs Peak Council, Boy Scouts of America.
Since the property was acquired by the Boy Scouts, the land has continued to be used in the same general way that the earlier owners had envisioned. It is used primarily for short-term camping, servicing primarily the youth of Longs Peak Council. Other Scouting groups also use the facility, and several times a year it is used for training the adults who work with the Scouts.
Web Site: http://www.longspeakbsa.org/camps/Patiya/
Directions:
Go to the intersection of Baseline Road and Broadway Street in Boulder. Go west on Baseline for 7.5 miles up Flagstaff Mountain. The camp is on the right
Map
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