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=====Camps===== The Baden-Powell Council operates two Scout Camps: '''Camp Barton''', founded in 1927, is a Scouts BSA of America camp located on {{convert|130<ref name="Barton year-round">{{Cite web |title=Camp Barton |url=https://www.bpcouncil.org/camping/camp-barton-year-round |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref>|acres|km2|1}} on Frontenac Point on the west shore of Cayuga Lake in New York State's [[Finger Lakes]]. It is approximately nine miles north of [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]].<ref name="Barton year-round" /> Camp Barton has nine summer camping sites with 2- and 4-man platform tents, as well as a winter lean-to site in one of the two gorges which surround the camp.<ref name="BP-Barton-sites">{{Cite web |title=Camp Barton Summer Camp |url=https://www.bpcouncil.org/camping/campbarton/ |access-date=2011-05-23 |publisher=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref> The camp facilities include many water-based activities on the camp's quarter-mile of waterfront, including rowing, motorboating, sailing, waterskiing, jetskiing and swimming, as well as handicraft, nature, rifle and archery ranges, and scoutcraft areas.<ref name="BP-Barton-program">{{Cite web |title=Camp Barton Program |url=http://www.bpmlegal.com/barton/bartpgm.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721033748/http://www.bpmlegal.com/barton/bartpgm.html |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |access-date=2007-06-21 |website=Camp Barton |publisher=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref> The Camp's buildings and cabins are available for off-season use by Scouting and other youth organizations.<ref name="BP-Barton-offseas">{{Cite web |title=Camp Barton Off-Season Camping |url=http://www.bpmlegal.com/barton/offseas.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928030216/http://www.bpmlegal.com/barton/offseas.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |access-date=2007-06-21 |website=Camp Barton Website |publisher=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref> '''Tuscarora Scout Reservation''' is a Boy Scouts of America camp located on 1200 acres (4.5 km<sup>2</sup>) around Summit Lake in New York State's [[Southern Tier]].<ref name="BP-Tuscarora-overview">{{Cite web |title=Camp Tuscarora |url=http://www.camptuscarora.org/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417015020/http://www.camptuscarora.org/ |archive-date=April 17, 2009 |access-date=2007-06-21 |website=Camp Tuscarora Website |publisher=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref> The camp has ten summer camping sites with 2-man platform tents.<ref name="BP-Tuscarora-overview" /> It has five winter units with a center lodge equipped with wood stoves, refrigerators and electricity and four 8-man lean-tos. Tuscarora Scout Reservation also offers a renovated Nature lodge, dining hall, a nationally known Handicraft program, and a {{convert|40|ft|m|0|adj=on}}, progressively more difficult climbing wall with free rappel. They also offer mountainboarding, paddleboard, shotgun and rifle range as well as multiple Wilderness Programs and Scoutcraft programs. The camp is available year-round for camping, hiking as well as shotgun and rifle programs. Tuscarora Scout Reservation hosts over 500 Scouts and leaders each January and February for its Winter Camp programs. Tuscarora hosts the Council's annual National Youth Leadership Training Course every August.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to the Baden-Powell Council |url=https://www.bpcouncil.org/about/history/ |access-date=2018-01-05 |website=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref><ref name="BP-Tuscarora-program">{{Cite web |title=Camp Tuscarora Program |url=http://www.camptuscarora.org/program.htm |access-date=2007-06-21 |website=Camp Tuscarora Website |publisher=Baden-Powell Council}}</ref>
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