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CAMP HI-SIERRA is the privately owned property of Boy Scout Memorial Foundation, and is located at an elevation of 5000 ft. within the Stanislaus National Forest. The North Fork of the Tuolumne River flows through and provides a waterfront of endless enjoyment. The history of the property is a rich heritage of Miwok Indian summer dwellings, early homesteads, and the Cold Springs sawmill site for the Standard Lumber Company. The Council purchased the camp’s one hundred acres in 1949 for $10.00 an acre from Edwin Jenness, who owned more than five thousand acres, and owned & operated the old Mono Toll Road just above camp along the present Highway 108. The first regular camping season was 1951, and from that summer to the present, Camp Hi-Sierra has proudly passed on the common thread of purpose and method that runs through every part of the Scout camping program to those first campers’ sons and their sons.
Today, Scouts can enjoy the many wonders of wildlife, wildflowers, lofty mountain peaks, and
beautiful forests. This is why Camp Hi-Sierra is a rich setting for your Scouts to have a real Scouting experience. Their Camp Hi-Sierra experience will remain a “bright light” in their Scouting memory. As Robert Baden-Powell once stated, “loan me your sons and I will help develop self-reliance and resourcefulness by providing a learning experience in which boys acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential to their well-being.” This, from the start, has been Camp Hi-Sierra’s goal, as entrusted to us by Baden- Powell.
