Welcome to Camp Buffalo which opened in 1945 as a Boy Scout Summer Camp. That makes this our 78th year.

New this year is the North Central Shower House (now open) located across Scout Road next to hopefully next year our new swimming pool.

We are glad you are coming to a wonderful 2023 Summer Camp Program.  Around camp you may see some of these qr barcodes which will give you information you will find helpful!

Also new this year is Ranger Eric Brush, a transplant from Pennsylvania.  Ranger Brush started at Camp Buffalo earlier this year.  He is an Eagle Scout, a Vigil Honor Member of the Order of the Arrow and worked previously on camp staff in Pennsylvania teaching merit badges and as an assistant ranger. So Eric is no stranger to Scouting or to summer camp! Eric and a team of volunteers along with the camp staff have gotten Camp Buffalo ready for you this summer!

Howard Hansen is back this year as our Camp Director and Nathanael Fivecoate is our Program Director. The rest of program area directors and camp staff will be introduced at the CampFire program.

We have new cooks in the kitchen with a great menu and we will go back to serving family style!  We hope you will have a great week at Camp Buffalo.

During the 75th Anniversary of Camp Buffalo, a history book was written on the camp and is available for purchase. You join tens of thousands of Scouts have come to Camp Buffalo for summer camp.  We welcome you!

You will find these QR code signs in various parts of camp, and many of them have not only relevant information you  will find useful but have history on them also.  Can you guess the year of this photo? (scroll down for the answer).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a picture of the “camp gate in the early to mid 1960’s. Notice it has only one opening unlike the modern gate of today.  As you might be aware, this is the 50th year of the Sagamore Council, and in the 1960’s the council was the Three Rivers Council and the OA Lodge was Tipicon Lodge with a “tipping canoe” as the icon. (Tippecanoe River, tipping canoe, get it).  The other thing that is unique about this picture is that Scout on the right is a what is called an “Exchange” scout, that is, he is from another country, serving on camp staff. This was very popular to do up through at least the end of the 1980’s. This allowed scouts to be introduced to other parts of the world. Yes there was life before the internet and cell phones!.