The Scouts of Watchung is part of The Watchung Reservation History Trail geocache. This geocache location is north of the lake where one of the favorite adventures for area Boy and Girl Scouts is camping in Watchung Reservation. These historic camping areas once had the Girl Scouts cabins and a Boy scouts had a Lean-to camp.
In the old days the Girl Scout had Cabins built on a bluff overlooking the lake Surprise.
In the woods below the open Field in Glenside Road on the opposite side of the lake from the Girl Scouts, the Elizabeth area Boy Scouts built their first official camp, including a log mess hall and three-sided lean-to cabins, in the 1920’s.
Until the formation of the Union County Park Police a few years later, the Boy Scouts patrolled the trails of the Watchung Reservation, helping lost hikers and picking up litter. The log mess hall has since been demolished. The lean-to's were replaced with newer structures in the 1960’s, but are no longer in use and in ruins today.
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