BSA High Adventure Bases and Summer Camps in Texas
BSA High Adventure Bases and Boy Scout Summer Camps in Texas

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Longhorn Council and the Texas High Adventure Base have unique and outstanding BSA High Adventure programs designed to provide youth and adults alike a memorable Scouting adventure! Troops and Crews from 43 states, England, Scotland, and Mexico have come to Chisholm Trail Adventure for BSA high adventure. Request our Texas High Adventure Video CD. Download: 2009 Camp & High Adventure Guide (2.1 MB)

Worth Ranch, Sid Richardson Scout Ranch, and Camp Tahuaya host our BSA high adventure programs and offer Scouting tradition for younger Scouts.

Available Weeks: click here for 2009 camps weeks still available
High Adventure Programs
Chisholm Trail Adventure
Steele Island Wakeboarding
Brazos River Canoe Trip

Venturing Camp
Venturing: Road to Ranger Camp
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Camp Tahuaya
Sid Richardson Scout Ranch
Worth Ranch
High Adventure Scout Pgm
Individual Scout Maverick Troop
 Specialty Camps
Advanced Wakeboard School
Tahuaya Fly Fishing Camp
F-16 Flight Simulator Week
Shooting Sports School Week
Aquatic School
New for 2009:
- Viking Ship
- Area 51 Outpost
- Fast Draw - Cowboy Action Shooting
 - F-16 Flight Simulator Program
- SR2 Multimedia Program
- Tahuaya Trout & Fly Fishing
- SR2 Lakeview Camp Option
- G-Scale Trains & Railroad MB 		2009 Camp & High Adventure Guide (2.08 MB)
Texas High Adventure Video CD
Download High Adv. Video (122MB)
Download the short version of the Texas High Adventure Base video (High Adventure only)
Texas High Adventure Base Video - short version - 81 MB file

High Adventure Jobs:  Camp Staff Interview Schedule.   Camp Staff Application.

View the Texas High Adventure Base Video: Short Version
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Chisholm Trail Adventure Base
Chisholm Trail is a backpacking program where you use pontoon boats instead of boots to move your pack and gear. A unique High Adventure - there are no programs like it. You get a pontoon boat for a week to travel to the high adventure outposts and watersports bases on our 16 miles of Lake Bridgeport shoreline! Chisholm Trail is Texas High Adventure - an unforgettable program experience for older youth and adults. We offer something for everyone.

New for 2009: Viking Ship, Area 51, Fast Draw (Cowboy Action Shooting).
Viking ShipFast Draw competition: Cowboy Action Shooting

Watersports Bases: SAILING BASE (Sailing, Windsurfing, Kayaking); Marina: (Tubing, Wakeboarding); WaterPark (2 Blobs, Jousting, Water Polo).

High Adventure Outposts: Area 51, U.S. Cavalry, Texas Rangers, Covert Ops, Viking Ship, Fast Draw (Cowboy Action Shooting), Climbing, Comanche Village, Sporting Clays, Highland Games, COPE..

Texas High Adventure Base is 70 miles from DFW airport. It's a High Adventure your crew will remember for years!

High Adventure Critique: Review of Chisholm Trail Adventure by Paul Fairbank, author of Scout Camps USA.

Chisholm Trail Adventure
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High Adventure at our U.S. Cavalry Outpost: firing the mountain howitzers in a battle reenactmentHigh Adventure on a pontoon boat: Every crew on Chisholm Trail gets a pontoon boat for a week.
Area 51 strike team participants blast aliens at night with laser sights and paintball.High Adventure at the Texas Ranger Outpost: a crew heads out on the trail to track down the outlaws!
High Adventure on the water: A Ventuer Crew member from Austin Texas learns to wakeboard in 2002.Covert Ops outpost headquarters.
High Adventure on the water: A Venture Crew member on The Blob in 2001High Adventure on the water: Chisholm Trail pontoon boats leaving our Sailing Base
High Adventure at the Texas Ranger Outpost: Scouts fire at the outlaws in a frontier battle reenactmentHigh Adventure on the water: Chisholm Trail participants in an Ultimate Tubing War
High Adventure on the water: Chisholm Trail participants sail a catamaran on Lake BridgeportHigh Adventure on the cliffs: one of our expert climbing staff climbs a difficult route at Hermit's CaveHigh Adventure on the water: Going on edge in a catamaran. Will he flip??
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Brazos River Canoe Trip - 50-Miler
A Worth Ranch High Adventure tradition! Do your high adventure on the river, earn your 50 Miler award, and test your canoeing and camping skills paddling the scenic Brazos River.

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High Adventure on the water: A Brazos River Canoe Trip group at Seven ROcks, one of many scenic campsites on the river.High Adventure on the water: BRCT canoeists make their down the river
High Adventure on the water: Canoeists enter the little rapid below the Highway 4 bridge.High Adventure Canoe Camping on our Brazos RIver Canoe Trip
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Steele Island Wakeboarding
High Adventure on the water! Learn wakeboarding at our High Adventure Base! Wakeboard each day from 6 a.m. to noon, and from supper to dark.
Steele Island Wakeboarding
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High Adventure on the water: Steele Island Wakeboarder lands a back flip in July 2004.High Adventure on the water: a Steele Island Wakeboard participant jumping the wake in June 2004.High Adventure on the water: a Steele Island Wakeboard participant jumping the wake in July 2004.
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Wakeboard School
Join our expert wakeboard staff for advanced skills instruction and high adventure fun. An intensive training program to develop intermediate to advanced wakeboarding skills. One week in July. Advanced High Adventure on the water!

Wakeboard School
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High Adventure on the water: Wakeboard School participant doing a grab in July 2004.High Adventure on the water: Wakeboard School participant throwing tricks in July 2004.High Adventure on the water: Wakeboard School participant coming out of a back flip in July 2004.High Adventure on the water: a wakeboarder coming out of a 360 in July 2004.High Adventure on the water: a wakeboarder doing a Railey in July 2004.
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Worth Ranch
One of America's oldest and finest traditional Scouting programs - since 1929. You get traditional Boy Scout summer camp program at its best from our talented staff and outstanding facilities, including 2 modern pools and the new air-conditioned Duncan Dining Hall. Do High Adventure on the Brazos River Canoe Trip or at Chisholm Trail High Adventure!
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Worth Ranch
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Scouts take in a Kyle Mountain SunsetWorth Ranch has two modern pools, including this big instructional pool
Climbing at the Worth Ranch Climbing GardensWorth Ranch is a river camp, located on the banks of the Brazos at the foot of Kyle Mtn., and is host to the Brazos River Canoe Trip
Scouts in the basketball and volleyball play poolWorth Ranch campfires are famous in Texas!Tubing on the Brazos River
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Sid Richardson Scout Ranch
A Texas-size Boy Scout camp with Texas-sized high adventure programs, lots of history, and a new air-conditioned dining hall. 3,000 acres of scenic cliffs, open prairie, heavy forests, and 19 miles of rugged shoreline on Lake Bridgeport. The historic 1870's U.S. Cavalry outpost site is a centerpiece of our Chisholm Trail High Adventure - one of BSA's finest High Adventure Programs.

New High Adventure Scout Program.

Sid Richardson Scout Ranch - SR2
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Sunset on Lake Bridgeport at Sid Richardson Scout RanchArchery in 2004 at Sid Richardson Scout Ranch
High Adventure on the water: A Scoutmaster gets bounced one of our Blobs in June 2004.Soaring to Eagle participant in Swimming Merit Badge class at Sid Richardson Scout Ranch
Sailing on Lake Bridgeport at Sid Richardson Scout RanchFriday night campfire overlooking Lake Bridgeport at Sid Richardson Scout Ranch
Lifesaving Merit Badge class at Sid Richardson Scout RanchKayaking on Lake Bridgeport at Sid Richardson Scout Ranch
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Camp Tahuaya
A small, beautiful, heavily-wooded camp with the largest natural spring in Texas. Everything at Tahuaya is within easy walking distance. The Shanklin mill, millrace ruins, and Old Military Road are historic landmarks.

Tahuaya has a new pool and showerhouse, and the lake has been deepened to improve fish habitat.

Camp Tahuaya
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Camp Tahuaya's Lake Boyd Callan was dredged in 2004 - it's 16-20 feet deep now in many places where it had been only 5 feet deep!Arlington, Texas Scouts at Camp Tahuaya in 2004
Camp Tahuaya's Baden Powell PatrolCanoeing on the lake at Camp Tahuaya
A Scout swimming on the last day of the old pool at Camp Tahuaya. The new pool opens in summer 2005!Scouts relaxing in Explorer campsite in June 2004
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Aquatic School
Aquatic School develops teaching skills, presentation skills, time management, certifies BSA LIfeguards. Boy Scouts 13-17.

Aquatics School
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Aquatics School staff teach Scouts how to teach swimmingAquatics School participant ready to help his troop with canoeing high adventure
Learning to manage troop aquatics and earning BSA LifeguardAquatics School candidates learn to teach canoeing
Aquatics School participant shows off his canoeing skill at the end of the week.Aquatics School taking laps in the pool
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  Request a High Adventure Video CD
Texas High Adventure Video CD

Download the High Adventure Video
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Download High Adv. Video (122MB)
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Camps and High Adventure 2008 Guide (1.4 MB)