Great Salt Lake Council
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
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525 Foothill Blvd Salt Lake City, UT 84113 |
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| Country | United States | ||
| Coordinates | 40°45′30.9″N 111°50′14.8″W / 40.758583°N 111.837444°W | ||
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Website https://www.saltlakescouts.org/ |
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| Camp Steiner | |||
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| Location | Uinta Mountains of Utah | ||
| Coordinates | 40°43′9.68″N 110°53′5.9″W / 40.7193556°N 110.884972°W | ||
| Founded | 1930 | ||
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Website https://www.saltlakescouts.org/steiner |
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| Hinckley Scout Ranch | |||
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| Location | Uinta Mountains of Utah | ||
| Coordinates | 40°51′44.55″N 110°45′41.3″W / 40.8623750°N 110.761472°W | ||
| Founded | 1930 | ||
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Website https://www.saltlakescouts.org/hinckley |
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525 Foothill Blvd
The Great Salt Lake Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America and serves the Utah counties of Salt Lake, Tooele and Summit, as well as much of Davis County.
The council is divided into these districts:
The council operates the following camps:
At 10,400 feet (3,200 m), Camp Steiner is the highest Boy Scout camp in the United States and the second highest in the world. It was founded in 1930 in the Uinta Mountains. The camp is listed in the national historic registry. The camp is located about 30 miles (48 km) outside of Kamas, Utah. The camp lies on the shores of Scout Lake with several other lakes nearby, such as Lofty Lake, Kamas Lake, Castle Lake, Picturesque Lake and Pearl Lake. It has views of Bald Mountain, Reids Peak, Hayden Peak and Mount Agassiz. In 2002 it the camp was expected to host 56,000 boys over the course of the summer.
Camp Steiner is considered the flagship camp for the Great Salt Lake Council. The camp's motto is "Designed to serve the many, but dedicated to serve and embrace the one."
Founded in 1930, Camp Steiner is known for its many traditions including Mountain Man competitions and the Steiner Yell. The reenactment of the siege of Mafeking, followed by the Honor Trail, a dawn hike and the Polar Bear Plunge are all a part of Steiner's program.
The legend of Hyrum is an old folktale about a miner who was blown to pieces in a horrible mining accident. Legend states that Hyrum still hikes the hills of Steiner as a monster of some sort.
The Lost Gold Mine is a true story of LDS miner Caleb Rhoades who mined what were considered to be the richest gold mines in the country. The story of the Rhoades Mines includes an ambush by Butch Cassidy and his "Hole in the Wall Gang." The locations of the mines died with Rhoades, but in his journal he describes a heart-shaped lake surrounded by castles; possibly referring to Scout Lake (formerly known as Heart Lake) and the cliff faces and mountain peaks that can be seen from the lake shores.
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