New Pool, Showers, & Lake Improvements
Tahuaya has a new pool and pool showerhouse. We removed 1000 large dumptruck loads of silt to deepen the lake. The lake is stocked with trout for summer camp.

Baden Powell Program
Camp Tahuaya’s First Year program. Our goal is to give your First Year Campers a FUN week that will help you inspire them to stay in Scouting and return to camp next year! We challenge your first year campers to learn the skills they need to pass the requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class. Baden Powell is a half–day program offered both morning and afternoon.

Trout Fishing
Our cold spring-fed lake is stocked with Trout. Fly Fishing and Fishing Merit Badges are taught. Large populations of Smallmouth bass and blue gill hit flies too, as well as standard lures and baits. Fishing is off-limits except for summer camp participants.

Tahuaya Fly Fishing Week
Older boys can do a week of fly fishing training, fly tying instruction, and trout and bass fishing during the week of June 7-13 (only) at Camp Tahuaya with advance booking. This program is for individual Scouts and Venturers. The camp provides fly rods and equipment. Limit 20 participants. Contact Council Camping Chairman Scott Lindgren for info.

Railroading MB and G-Scale Trains
New G-Scale outdoor model train facility to help Scouts work on Railroading MB with the camp’s experienced instructor. Scouts can build and operate a large Garden Scale outdoor model railroad. Each Scout will build one G-Scale rail car or engine to keep.

Tahuaya Canoe & Caving Trek
Troops camping at Camp Tahuaya can send a crew of older boys and adults to paddle wilderness sections of the Llano and Colorado Rivers or Stillhouse Hollow Lake. Troops provide tents and camping gear, and your favorite backpacking or portable camp stoves. Camp Tahuaya staff will provide canoes, PFDs, paddles, and new 8000 cubic inch canoe drypacks for clothes and sleeping bags. Each person gets one pack. Troops must provide shuttle transportation for their group. Finish the Canoe Trek with a guided Caving Trip.

Other High Adventure Options
All Longhorn Council high adventure programs are available to older youth and adults from Troops camping at Camp Tahuaya.
Tahuaya SCUBA Option: Older boys and adults at Camp Tahuaya can take a SCUBA course at Stillhouse Hollow Lake one mile west of Tahuaya. Advance booking required. Contact Camp Director.
Chisholm Trail Adventure: Send a crew of older youth and adults to the unique and exciting Texas High Adventure Base.

Merit Badges Offered
Archaeology, Archery, Art, Basketry, Bird Study, Camping, Canoeing, Cinematography, Citizenship-World, Communications, Emergency Preparedness, Environmental Science, Fingerprinting, First Aid, Fish and Wildlife Management, Fishing, Fly Fishing, Forestry, Geology, Indian Lore, Insect Study, Leatherwork, Lifesaving, Mammal Study, Nature, Oceanography, Orienteering, Photography, Pioneering, Pottery, Public Speaking, Railroading, Reptile & Amphibian Study, Rifle Shooting, Rowing, Sculpture, Shotgun Shooting, Soil & Water Conservation, Space Exploration, Swimming, Theater, Weather, Wilderness Survival, Wood Carving.

Canoeing and Kayaking
We have 30 canoes, a dozen kayaks, numerous rowboats, and olympic-style rowing shells that you can take out on the lake, in one of the most beautiful settings you’ll find in any Texas camp. A great place to learn to paddle or row!

Campsite Lunches
Lunches are done in the campsites - a popular option! Scouts may also elect to cook some of their other meals in their campsite. Coordination with the Program Director is all that is required.

Camp Tahuaya Coup Stick
The Coup Stick is awarded daily to the Troop with the highest campsite inspection score. The unit is entitled to fly its unit flag on the central flagpole and to eat first. The winning Troop is expected to “improve” the Coup Stick each day. At the closing campfire on Friday the Coup Stick will be permanently awarded to the Troop with the highest total score for the week.

Special Events at Tahuaya
The BIG one is the Tahuaya dodgeball tournament! It’s VERY popular! There are also Camp Wide Games, Watermelon shootoff, Tahuaya Coup Stick award for best campsite inspections, Thursday night Parent’s Night Campfire, and others.

Playing in the shade under the big cottonswoods at the pool below Tahuaya falls is also very popular. The Goat Man Cave and the Old Shanklin Mill are also popular spots to check out.


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For High Adventure, Troops can send crews of older boys to do living history and high adventure in the unique Chisholm Trail Adventure, wakebaording at Steele Island, and canoe camping on the Brazos River Canoe Trip 50 Miler.