Editing Scouting in Ohio (section)

=====Camps=====
[[File:Beard Scout Reservation Miamiville OH USA.JPG|thumb|Dan Beard Scout Reservation]]
'''Camp Michaels''' is located in [[Union, Kentucky|Union, KY]], on {{convert|700|acre|km2}} of land, offering primitive outdoor facilities.   {{convert|61|acre|km2}} of additional land was dedicated on September 19, 2008.

The '''Dan Beard Scout Reservation''', in [[Loveland, OH]], consists of three areas on its {{convert|506|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus.  '''Camp Friedlander''' was established in 1919, and reopened in 2002 after renovations to the camp.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tullius |first1=Jeff |title=On This Ground: Camp Edgar Friedlander, 1919-2019 |date=2019 |publisher=Living Media |location=Fort Thomas, Kentucky |isbn=978-1-64316-885-2}}</ref> Friedlander has 23 campsites, a 600-person dining hall, an {{convert|18|acre|m2|adj=on}} lake, cabins, and a swimming pool. It has an excellent reputation and attracts Scouts from all over the world.  '''Camp Craig''' is often used as a training facility. The Program Building at Camp Craig is often rented out for retreats, conferences or training. The swimming pool at Camp Craig is shared with Cub World.  '''Cub Scout Adventure World''' (Cub World) opened in 2000 as a camp designed exclusively for Cub Scouting. Cub World features two large buildings that offer dorm-like accommodations (Pioneer Fort and Medieval Castle) that offer rooms with bunk-beds, and more primitive areas (Mountain Man Village and Miner's Camp) that offer tent camping. All three camps have access to each other on the Reservation, which is adjacent to the [[Little Miami River]].

'''Camp Charles R. Hook''', founded in 1926, was in operation until 1991. In 1997, the land was purchased by the Five Rivers Metroparks and is now called the Twin Creek Metropark. The land for Camp Hook was donated by the family of [[Charles R. Hook, Sr.|Charles R. Hook]], who was the President of the [[American Rolling Mill Company]] (ARMCO) (which in the early 1990s merged to become AK Steel Corporation), and son-in-law of the company's founder, [[George M. Verity]]. In early 1929 Mr. Hook donated a significant amount of stock to the Middletown Area Council with the instructions to immediately sell it and use the proceeds to put in a swimming pool at the camp. The timing on this event was advantageous considering early in the fall of 1929 was the [[1929 Stock Market Crash|crash of the stock market]] and the beginning of the [[Great Depression]]. The sale of the stock yielded enough money to put in the swimming pool and purchase more land to the north, expanding the camp's size significantly. The waterfront of the camp was later named Lake George after Charles Hook's son, George Verity Hook. After the camp's closure and sale to the Metroparks system, the majority of the structures were torn down and the swimming pool filled in. Most of the campsites have grown over as well, but many landmarks or signs of the former use of the area remain. The Metroparks system maintains three group campsites for Scout use, and a backcountry camping area was added on the north side of the property near Chamberlain Road. A large rock with embedded plaque thanking the Hooks for the donation remains, as does the amphitheatre campfire bowl, the Administration Lodge, the Maintenance Building, the Chapel (now called the Natuary) and a few other structures that are in ruins. The pool pump house and the shelters for the shooting ranges still remain, though it is believed this is due only because the demolition equipment could not safely reach these structures. The park previously held three geocache units that contain historical pictures of the old camp, but as of fall 2013 they have been removed. One point of interest that remains is the Gilwell Tree. A local Scouting family in the 1970s took a vacation to England with his family, during which they visited Gilwell Park, the home of the Scouting movement. A sapling of one of the English Oaks was brought back from Gilwell Park and planted at Camp Hook to signify the ties between Scouting in the US and the worldwide movement. In June, 1986, Camp Hook hosted EC 336 X, an experimental Wood Badge Course directed by William Hillcourt. (Very little is known about this course.) In 2010 a plaque, and a split rail fence were created to honor the tree and one of the leading, and oldest, scout leaders in the Council. It was an Eagle Scout Service Project.