Ben Delatour Scout Ranch is an amazing Scouts BSA summer camp located in Colorado, just north of Rocky Mountain National Park. Boy Scout Resident Camp
The main camp, where the Boy Scout camp resides, is spread out over two locations; the patrol cooking camp Soaring Eagle, and Our Dining Hall side at Jeffery. Both camps run on the same schedule and participate in the same activities. Your Troop may
participate in as many or as little activities as they decide as a unit. The Ben Delatour Scout Ranch is organized into seven geographical camping areas:
Camp Charles Jeffrey Boy Scout Camp
Soaring Eagle Boy Scout Camp at Camp Ruth Coffin
Jack Nicol Cub Scout Family Camp
Elkhorn High Adventure Base
Charles Jeffrey Boy Scout Camp
In the summer this camp serves meals out of the 350-seat Armstrong Coral Rock Lodge. At other times you cook on your own in your campsite. The camp has ten campsite areas with tent platforms and space for individual tents:
Spence Site
Ridgeview Site
Tower Rock Site
Broken Axe Site
Chaplin Site
TCBY Site
Hill side Staff Site
The camp has a main campfire area: Tower Rock Camp Fire Ring. The well appointed open air Grannon Chapel is also located here. Pit latrines are located in or near each campsite. Each campsite has a stone circle fire pit. Our camp fallows state and county fire bans and a fire ban is usually in effect for most of the summer. Unfortunately if a ban is in place no camp site fires will be allowed. Camp Jeffrey also has two cabins for off season troop use. Both have wood stoves and metal bunks for sleeping:
IMG_3666Soaring Eagle Boy Scout Camp
In the summer this camp is a patrol cooking camp where all meals are prepared in the campsite. At other times of the year it is the same. The camp has thirteen campsites divided into several patrol sites. Each site has five tent platforms and there is usually room for individual tent set-up:
Hideaway Site – 1 patrol site
Lariat Site – 1 patrol site
VanderNoorde Vale Site – 2 patrol sites
Los Padros Site – 2 patrol sites
Lands End Site – 2 patrol sites
Buzzards Roost Site – 2 partol sites
Wagon Wheel Site – 1 patrol site (wheelchair accessable)
BP’s Gold Mine Site – 3 patrol sites
The camp also has the Flaming Arrow campfire area just southeast of the parking lot. In addition, it has the Cowpoke Chapel, Yucca Flats Archery Range, and Chuck Wagon Cooking area. Each campsite has a latrine located in or near the site. The COPE Course and Pancake Climbing Base are Off Limits Areas! Parking at the camp is limited, so overflow vehicles must go to the main parking lot. Soaring Eagle is a Fires in Steel Fire Rings Only! Special Scheduled Activities
During the September through May time period some special activities may be scheduled. Depending on the activity, it may be a pack/troop/crew activity or an activity for individual youth and/or adults. These may include activities such as the following:
Annual Fall Color Hike – September
Tiger Cub Adventure Day
BB Archery Day
BSA Climbing Instructor Course
Venturing Climbing/COPE/Shooting Weekends
Cub Scout Haunted Castle Weekends
