Goshen it is – A permament Jamboree site
The national BSA office has completed the purchase of Goshen Scout Reservation from National Capital Area Council to be developed into a permanent site for the National Jamboree. Goshen is one of the major east coast camps although I don’t know much about the specifics. I’m sure readers can fill us in. The 2013 jamboree will be held at Goshen.
on May 27th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Update: National will not purchase Goshen until at least 2010. The 2013 jamboree will not occur, Goshen will not be ready by 2013. My vies is that the Goshen Scout reservation does not have enough flat land to camp one Region.
on June 15th, 2009 at 10:52 am
VERY interesting. We’ll need to track this. I can well understand that it could take a lot to get any area that does not have the existing infrastructure for 60,000 people. Even if they had control of the land now, it could be a tight schedule. We’ll see. Thanks for updating.
Roy
on August 5th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I just noticed that National Capitol Area Council has a notice on their website stating that the Jamboree will not be held at Goshen…
http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org/openrosters/ViewOrgPageLink.asp?LinkKey=30811&orgkey=1988
on August 5th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Robert,
Thanks. I’m going to post this as a new post as well. I heard about some of this while talking with my National friends at pre-NOAC.