Leaders Guide updated and posted for the summer of 2025.
If updates are needed they will be posted at this link
Scouting America Provisional Troop
Have Scouts who can’t attend camp with the troop? Have Scouts who want to come back for another week? Join us for a week with our provisional troop!
We provide the two-deep leadership with adult staff members serving as the troop leaders. The provisional troop is comprised of Scouts from all around, and operates according to the traditional Patrol and Troop methods. Separate troops will be run for male and female Scouts.
Scouts will be encouraged to get out of the campsite, take merit badges, participate in camp programs, compete in camp games - and get to enjoy the week at camp!
Provisional Dates for 2025 - click below to register!
NoBe 2025
Join us for the summer of 2025 at NoBe
Dates
Week 1 - June 29th to July 5th
Week 2 - July 6th to July 12th - Full
Week 3 - July 13th to July 19th - Full
Week 4 - July 20th to July 26th - Full
Week 5 - July 27th to August 2nd - Scouts BSA Provisional Available
Week 6 - August 3rd to August 9th - Scouts BSA Provisional Available and Arrow of Light Provisional
Fees
Early Bird Fee - $605 before April 15th
Standard Fee - $650 after April 15th
Leader Fee - $155 for additional after free Leaders (see Leaders Guide for breakdown)
2024 Leaders Guide
The 2024 Leader's Guide to Summer Camp is posted online!
NoBe 2024
Interested in joining us for the summer of 2024? Below Is some key information!
If you are looking to sign up - visit the Northern New Jersey Council website - or reach out to Marissa Sikder at the Council office!
Dates
Week 1 - June 30th to July 6th
Week 2 - July 7th to July 13th (Space is limited - hold a site now!)
Week 3 - July 14th to July 20th (Space is limited - hold a site now!)
Week 4 - July 21st to July 27th
Week 5 - July 28th to August 3rd - Male and Female Provisional Units Available too!
Week 6 - August 4th to August 10th - Male and Female Provisional Units Available too!
Fees
$590 Early Bird (Pre April 15), $635 Standard
Leaders Guide
We are creating the 2024 Leaders Guide now - but check out the 2023 Leaders Guide for information in the meantime. We refine the program each year - but don’t do dramatic changes! Updated guide will hopefully be released in January.
Leaders Meeting Follow Up
Weren’t able to attend the leaders meeting on June 26th? Check this link for a recording of the meeting!
Looking for the theme reveal? - NoBe Down Under!
New Scouts looking for First Class Adventure? Take a look at the schedule for 2023
2023 Leaders Meeting - 6/26
The 2023 Camp Leaders Meeting will be held on Zoom at 7:30pm on Monday 6/26
Please sign up in advance at this link
Camp updates, program updates, and the theme will all be shared! Leaders please then share this information with your troops!
Q & A with the Camp Directors will happen afterwards.
2023 Leaders Guide
Be sure to check under the resource tab for the 2023 Leaders Guide!
Summer of 2023
Is your unit looking to attend NoBe for the Summer of 2023?
Look below for some important information!
If you are looking to sign up - visit the Northern New Jersey Council website - or reach out to Marissa Sikder at the Council office!
Dates:
Week 1 - July 2 - July 8
Week 2 - July 9 - July 15 - Space is limited - hold a site soon!
Week 3 - July 16 - July 22
Week 4 - July 23 - July 29
Week 5 - July 30 - August 5 - Male and Female Provisional Units Available too!
Week 6 - August 6 - August 12 - Male and Female Provisional Units Available too!
Cost:
Still being determined - check back soon for updates.
Theme:
Still a surprise! To be announced at the 2023 Leaders Meeting!
95th Anniversary
2022 Leaders Meeting Update
Attached is the presentation shared during the Leaders Meeting
Any questions - please reach out and ask!
CAMPBUSTERS - 2022 Theme
When there’s something strange in the camp today… Who ya gonna call? CAMPBUSTERS
Pre-Registration for SELECT Badges
Scouts wishing to register for select badges - Welding, Sailing, Climbing and Woodwork - need to sign up in advance for the badge. There are multiple class periods available, so be sure you are choosing the right classes.
Scouts will sign up through the Parent Portal on 247scouting.com (Black Pug) where they are registered.
Sessions will open the Tuesday before your week at camp at 2pm
•Week 1 – 2pm on Wednesday June 29th -
•Week 2 – 2pm – Tuesday - July 5th
•Week 3 – 2pm – Tuesday - July 12th
•Week 4 – 2pm – Tuesday - July 19th
•Week 5 – 2pm – Tuesday - July 26th
•Week 6 – 2pm – Tuesday - Aug 2nd
2022 Leaders Meeting - 6/27
The 2022 Leaders Meeting will be 6/27 ay 7:30pm on ZOOM.
Please sign up in advance using this link.
Program materials, activities, information about sign ups for certain merit badges will be discussed.
Questions will be answered for anyone who has them!
2022 Leaders Guide
The 2022 Leaders Guide is updated and linked on the website!
The Leaders Meeting will be June 27, 2022 - in person and over Zoom.
Check back for details on pre-sign ups for select merit badges.
Summer 2022
Interested in joining us for the summer of 2022? Reserve your space for the summer now!
Dates
Week 1 - July 3 to July 9
Week 2 - July 10 to July 16 (Spaces limited - reserve today!)
Week 3 - July 17 to July 23
Week 4 - July 24 to July 30
95th Anniversary Celebration - July 30th!
Week 5 - July 31 to August 6
Week 6 - August 7 to August 13
Provisional Troop available week 5 and 6.
Price
Early bird discount available for full payment before April 18th - $455 After April 18th - $500
Leaders Meeting Updates
COVID Protocol Presentation from Meeting
Atlantic Health Consent for Treatment Form - needed for in camp testing
Registration Laboratory Requisition Form - needed for in camp testing
COVID Update
NEWER INFORMATION HAS BEEN UPLOADED ON 6/28
Update Sent on 6/15/21
Dear Camp NoBeBoSco Leader:
It is almost time for Summer! We are, of course, running an in-person camp, but are subject to State and Local Policies as well as Scouts BSA Policies. We have been in careful consultation with both our county health department and our state epidemiologist.
By now you have received the letter from the council, dated 6-11, outlining overall policies for all of the council camps. I have incorporated that information, but please be aware that changes are coming frequently from the various health departments. We will have what is most up to date at our June 28th meeting.
June 28th, at 7:30 pm we will be holding our pre-camp leaders meeting over Zoom only. At that time, we will be able to give any last-minute updates, so this is an important meeting. Council will be sending out invites with the meeting link to the email that is listed with your summer registration.
Arrival at camp will need to be different. We will do temperature checks at arrival. Drop offs will be just that—no leaving of vehicles other than the attendee. Cars will loop around, scouts will exit, cars will leave camp. Leaders who are staying will have their cars directed to a different location for parking. Thus it will be helpful and important if troops can all meet somewhere on the way to camp, and then come in to camp together. This way the leaders can park and help their scouts. We will continue our policy of one vehicle allowed to a campsite, but it will have to be based on the crowds in the parking lot.
Every adult and youth will need to go through our medical re-checks Sunday afternoon. They will not only need the usual medical with Part C signed by a doctor, but they will also need either proof of vaccination two weeks prior to arrival or a proof of a negative Covid PCR test taken 72 hours prior to arrival. (In addition, if they have had Covid in the last 90 days, they can provide a letter from their doctor giving this information in place of test or vaccination) That means the Wednesday before, at the earliest. Remember that these can be free, but the individual must make those arrangements. No one will be able to stay in camp Sunday without the proper medical and either the proof of vaccination, proof of disease in the past 90 days, or the negative Covid test. They will have to leave camp.
During the week of your stay at camp, a Covid test is required mid-week for all non-vaccinated scouts and adult leaders. These tests will be provided in-camp. Both the pre-arrival and mid-week tests are not optional this summer as per state covid mandates. Please be aware that the in-camp Covid test will be a nasal swab, but it is the “tickle in the nostril” test, not the more difficult deep in the nose test.
We will be allowed to use the dining hall and serve food at the tables. This was a major positive for us. Some conditions, though. Tables will need to be spread out. Scouts or leaders may not change tables. Troops may not be mixed at tables. Vaccinated staff and vaccinated leaders are allowed to sit with scouts at the tables. Unvaccinated staff and unvaccinated leaders will not. We will have to use the “Host” system, which old-timers may remember from many years ago. One person at the table will serve everyone else. The waiter is a different person.
In addition, at this point in June, we will all wear masks into the dining hall, but will take them off after grace. Hand sanitizer will be at every table and using it at the start of each meal is required. Masks will go back on for songs, but not for the song leaders, of course.
Mask will be worn by all when going into the Trading Post and inside a program area building. We won’t congregate inside the TP but will be allowed to be on the outside porch, without masks. For those of you who have not seen it, our new wrap-around porch is quite large.
Scouts will sleep in opposite directions in their tents, and flaps will always be kept open (except when changing, of course. In bad weather, flaps are down, but tent sides would be rolled up for fresh air). We will also have hand sanitizing stations for troops to use in the campsites. We added a number of picnic tables in 2019 and will add even more this summer so scouts do not have to squeeze together. Most important, every site will have access to flush toilet facilities, which will be kept clean as part of our daily inspections. We will not be using the open-pit latrines.
It is important that every scout try to bring a packable chair to camp, so that we can be spread out in classes and in the campsites.
Merit badge classes are normally out-of-doors, but for inclement weather we will have extra tables and canopies in place. Masks will be worn when we need to move indoors and there will be plenty of fans moving in fresh air.
Campfires can happen in the campfire site! The audience will be masked, but performers will be able to take off their masks.
Masks are not required as we walk around camp, nor in the campsites.
I do feel that adult leaders should plan to be vaccinated. If you have a leader who will not be vaccinated, troops should do everything they can do get substitute leaders. This is not required by the council, however. Leaders should not be changing each day and should plan to stay as long as possible in camp.
Looking forward to seeing everyone this summer at NoBe!
Sincerely,
Bob Johnson, Camp Director
rjohnson@gvsd.org - best method of contact!
(610-687-3152)
2021 LEADERS MEETING UPDATE
The Leaders Meeting will be held June 28th at 7:30pm on Zoom Only.
Leaders can sign up in advance at the link below
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAld-6qqT0uH9C2kZbPqcbkRuLNK5rWS1bX
An email with information on what is discussed at the meeting will be sent out to contacts following the meeting.
2021 Leaders Guide
We are getting excited for the Summer of 2021!
Looking for details of our 2021 program? Consult our Leaders Guide for updated information on programs, merit badges and activities for this year!
At the time of printing, NJ has not released final guidelines for operating in the time of COVID. When we finalize our plans, after those guidelines are released, we will communicate them on the website, and to the troop contacts.