For those of us who collect camp patches, we know that many camp properties were used by other groups, often the Girl Scouts (although I doubt at the same time ). We recently received the auction flyer for the California Inland Empire Council, BSA for this fall. It includes a wonderful example of this - Camp Tulakes.

This camp first started in the 1930s and was owned by Old Baldy Council. They sold it to Grayback Council in 1955. Grayback Council eventually merged into California Inland Empire Council in 1973. (From The Camp Book by Minnihan and Sherman).

We often get patches in where we know the name was used as a Boy Scout camp but the patch itself either “just isn’t right” or actually has the logo for another program. Conversely we’ve got patches in, often on merit badge sashes, but its not a Boy Scout camp. Many of these are or were YMCA camps that obviously the boy went to, probably with his troop, and thus put it on his sash.

In the CIEC auction they have the rest of this series of patches which clearly show Camp Tulakes was also used as a Girl Scout camp.

Actually, it was used by two different Girl Scout councils (or maybe it was like the Boy Scouts and the councils merged.)