Expeditions Spring 2021 BSAC High Adventure

Family Adventure Camps at Sea Base

Are you looking for your next family vacation? Is your family ready for adventure? BSA’s newest national camping program has everything you and your family need to make long lasting outdoor memories together. From swimming to hiking to kayaking to snorkeling to sailing and simply sitting by the campfire, the newest location of BSA Family Adventure Camps at the Florida National High Adventure Sea Base in the Florida Keys has outdoor adventures for your entire family!

Your family can come for a week or even just a few days. Dates are available throughout the spring, fall and winter! Pick the experience and fun that your family wants! And with three types of lodging to choose from, everyone is sure to find their favorite camping experience! BSA Family Adventure Camps offer flexible schedules that give your family the chance to build your adventure, choosing from activities at camp, around the area or simply relaxing together in the outdoors. BSA Family Adventure Camp has adventure for every age! Grandparents, parents, and children of all ages will be able to enjoy the magic and adventure together.

For more details on this exciting opportunity and to reserve your family’s adventure, visit https://www.bsaseabase.org/camping/

Cumberland Falls,

Cumberland Falls is the largest waterfall in Kentucky and is located in the Daniel Boone National Forest. Known as the "Niagara of the South", the waterfall forms a 125 foot wide curtain that plunges 60 feet into a boulder-strewn gorge below. The mist of the Cumberland Falls creates the magical moonbow, only visible on a clear night during a full moon. The unique phenomenon appears nowhere else in the Western Hemisphere. Cumberland Falls is located in the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park.

The area is a natural choice for water-sports enthusiasts, offering white-water rafting and canoeing among other water activities. A professional outfitter is just 5 miles east of the resort.

The park is also a perfect destination to introduce Scouts to the thrill of horseback riding. The park offers guided trail rides that are easy enough for the first timer and still adventurous for the more experienced.

Fishing in the Cumberland River is available as well, where there is an abundance of bass, catfish, panfish, and roughfish. A Kentucky Fishing License is required.

As spectacular as the setting that surrounds it, the historic Dupont Lodge, built of massive hemlock beams and knotty pine, offers a spectacular view of the Cumberland River Valley.

Fossil Park

Nearly 375 million years ago, northwest Ohio was a great sea teeming with life. Now, Fossil Park, located in an abandoned quarry in Sylvania, Ohio, is rich in fossilized brachiopods, coral, trilobites and more than 200 species of prehistoric life of Devonian age. It is an unusual destination for travelers who are interested in rocks, quarries or mines. Fossil Park’s 5-acre, ADA accessible rock quarry allows you to search for world- renowned fossils in a safe, controlled environment. The specimens are already in shale that is soft enough to break with your bare hands (No tools allowed.), making this an activity nearly anyone can enjoy. Visitors are allowed to break the fossils from the soft shale and keep any fossils that they find. Biking is also available via the Quarry Ridge Bike Trail. Be sure to check dates as it is not open year round. More information is available at http://www.olanderpark.com/olanderpark/fossil-park/