Is your troop planning a high adventure trip? Learn about Scouting America’s four amazing High Adventure bases:

Summit Bechtel Reserve: Located in the wilds of West Virginia, The Summit is an adventure center for the millions of youths and adults who love the outdoors. Whether it’s paddling inflatable kayaks down whitewater rapids, racing ATVs on backcountry tracks, or sharpening archery skills – there’s a super-charged outdoor adventure waiting for everyone. With incredible facilities and amazing outdoor programs, The Summit is a place that takes your high adventure to the limits! A variety of fun outdoor activities including ziplining, challenge courses, shooting opportunities, skating, Specialized experiences in white water rafting down class 1-4 rapids, and Multi-day ATV trekking.

Philmont Scout Ranch: Philmont offers 214 square miles of rugged northern New Mexico wilderness. Experience backpacking treks, horseback cavalcades, and challenges such as rock climbing, mountain biking, and sport shooting. Philmont Scout Ranch even offers training, service programs, and best of the old west programs – burro packing, gold panning, chuckwagon dinners, and interpretive history. It’s an unbeatable recipe for fast-paced fun in the outdoors! Join the 20,000 participants every summer that partake in 7, 9, and 12-day specialty wilderness backpacking expeditions exploring over 315 miles of trails.

Sea Base: A unique destination offering aquatic programs found nowhere else. Explore the wonders of Sea Base with your friends, family, Troop, Team, or Crew. Whether your interests lie in sailing, scuba diving, rustic camping on an undeveloped barrier island, fishing, ocean kayaking or paddle boarding, Sea Base can offer a combination of all. It’s the ultimate maritime adventure! Programs offered are Scuba certification and diving adventures, Sailing excursions and entire week fishing programs, Water activities like kayaking, snorkeling, Coral Reef restoration programs and other STEM related education adventures. You can also explore the Bahamas and US Virgin Islands

Northern Tier: Come for a whole new level of adventure, up north! From incredible canoe journeys to wild winter wilderness camping, Northern Tier promises the adventure of a lifetime. Explore millions of acres of pristine lakes, meandering rivers, dense forests and wetlands in the Great North Woods of northern Minnesota and Canada! Explore 4 million acres across the Northern Tier bases with one-of-a-kind adventures, including: 6-12-day canoe treks – guided by an experienced staff member Winter adventures unlike anywhere else in the world. Experience snowshoeing, ice fishing, and ice-camping, and Specialty mushing camp and dog treks.