Welcome to Camp Bradley's digital home.  

Call the Council Srevice Center for the latest updates on the camp site reservations (to the right). 

If you have any question please contact the Snake River Council Office.

WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING

STAFF APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2010 SEASON 

(June 21 thrugh July 31)

To get an application click here .

The 2010 Leader's Guide will be online about 6 months before camp begins. 

To look at last seasons 2009 Leader's Guide, click on either link below:

Adobe PDF (.pdf) click here (1.1 MB download)

Microsoft Word (.doc) click here  (31 MB download)

 ABOUT CAMP BRADLEY

Originally called the Cape Horn Scout Reservation; Camp Bradley was purchased by the Snake River Council in 1956. As many as 50 businesses from within the councils boundaries helped to purchase the property with its two main lodges, seven smaller cabins, two utility buildings, swimming pool with it’s cabin and 57 acres of land. 1,038 scouts attended that first summer of scout camp. This was the beginning of the great camping tradition at Camp Bradley.

In July of 1957, Archie Brown and the youth from the Ma-I-Shu Lodge of the Order of the Arrow, pioneered 58 miles of rough wilderness to form what is now called the Ma-I-Shu Trail. In later years other trails were developed to form the Silver Moccasin Trails. These trails are headquartered out of Camp Bradley.

During the summer of 1962, the Cape Horn Scout Reservation’s mortgage of $15,000 was completely paid in full by Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. James H. Shields, Jr. in memory of the Bradley’s son, James Robert Bradley. At this point dedication ceremonies were held and the camp received the official name of Camp Bradley at the Cape Horn Scout Reservation.

Since the early 1960's the Council has used the Camp for a base of operations for such activities as, one week horse back experiences, and high adventure experiences such as whitewater rafting down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Today our Council uses Camp Bradley as the base for the whitewater and offers five full weeks of rafting to scouts in our area.

As the needs of the camp increased, Dr. Paul Heuston and Coly Parrish gathered the necessary funds of $165,000 to build a new lodge. In the spring of 1974 construction on the Coly Parrish Friendship Lodge began. Construction was completed on the lodge in October of 1975. Minor improvements have been made on this building during its existence, including $20,000 worth of upgrades to the kitchen equipment in June of 2000.

A camp chapel was added to the camp in 1975 in memory of Boyd Given, a local Eagle Scout from Twin, Falls. The Boyd Given Chapel was built and donated by the local United Methodist Church and is located at the point of a peaceful meadow at Camp Bradley.

Camp Bradley at the Cape Horn Scout Reservation is an ideal location for Boy Scouts to have the ultimate camping adventure. The tradition lives on each new camping season and it is truly the best camping experience scouting has to offer in the pines of Central Idaho.