I saw that a Boy Scout camp on the lake is for sale.

Participation in Boy Scouts has dropped off significantly in the past few years and the camp is no longer financially profitable.

The price for the camp will be way out of my reach, but, I am curious what someone would do with a youth camp on the lake.

The camp is less than 20 years old and has modern buildings - dining hall, cabins, bath house, caretakers house, camp directors house, storage barns, work shops, etc.

Can you share with us the approximate price?

What is your thoughts for future use?

The camp has the capacity to handle 150 campers and staff.

This is not the typical Boy Scout camp that I went to as a kid. It is as nice as any church camp or 4H camp.

It has been used as a wedding venue during the off season.

2000’ waterfront

68 acres

$2.5m tax value

14,000 sq ft convention center

full commercial kitchen, freezers, etc

Well (61 gallons/minute) and septic

Most likely I'd turn it into an RV park.

If there are fish in the lake, install a good boat ramp and you can get campers who will come for the fishing season.

Here in Minnesota there is no market for camps. A lot of churches, youth organizations, etc owned camps that cannot be sold.

Well, the BSA sold off one of the Misouri camps a couple of years ago. There was a BSA camp near Potosi, MO on Sunnen Lake. It closed in 2017.

It had fallen into disrepair, and there are two other BSA Camps fairly nearby.

I'm fairly certain the YMCA of the Ozarks acquired the property, which is about 340 acres. It is adjacent to the YMCA of the Ozarks, typically called Trout Lodge and Campe Lakewood.

Here with the capability for over 100 campers at a time, you would need a class 1 water operator. They would require weekly water test.

I was first thinking like oregon - RVs.

But, it sounds like it may be set up with lots of indoor sleeping rather than actual camp sites. It could be nice short-term/vacation rentals, depending on where it is. Is it near any attractions? Mountain view, hiking/biking trails, historic site, quaint country village?

It is on Claytor lake, part of the New river.

A couple miles from the New River Trail.

Near Virginia Tech.

The lake is about 21 miles long.

...I think the real challenge - as always - would be advertising (in a large or nationwide way) to get the attention of the type of user you would ...

I think the real challenge, at least in my area, would be zoning /land use issues.

I would rent a property like that in a heartbeat for a family reunion. We need a facility that will accommodate 65 or more people, and water recreation is a must.

I could see lots of ways to make money off of it. Lease the land to hunters. Set up writer's retreats. Turn it into a campground. Rent the storage barns out for storage, and the workshops as workshops. Sell the timber.

Things were on the declined already... Then the Latter-day Saints stopped using the BSA as part of their program (mainly to make their program work around the world since other countries don't all have similar Scouting programs). That took away a ton of units and youth.

But, more recently, the big reason for selling the camps has been to help pay their $2.7 billion settlement for alleged child sexual abuse.