Location

Hullabaloo 2024 will be taking place at Camp Currie in Camas, Washington.

ADDRESS: Camp Currie

 618 NE 232nd Ave, 

 Camas, WA 98607

DIRECTIONS: It’s easy to get to Camp Currie. From Vancouver, head East on Highway 14 toward Camas and take exit 12 for NW 6th Ave. At the traffic circle, take the 2nd exit onto NW 6th Avenue, drive for a mile, then take a left onto Division Avenue. After 0.4 miles, turn right onto NE 17th Ave, then take a left onto NE Everett St. At the next traffic circle, take the first exit to stay on NE Everett St (WA-500). After another 0.7 miles, turn left onto SE Leadbetter Road for 1.7 miles. Camp Currie will be on your left

Parking is limited on site. You may have to park in stacked parking or unload your car and park in overflow parking a mile down the road (we will have a van to shuttle folks back). We generally do not have space for campers and trailers. If you need a camper for accessibility reasons, please contact us ahead of time and we will make arrangements.

Camp Currie has pit toilets and cold running water. There is just a single spigot located in the covered mess hall area, so plan to have a way to transport and store water close to your campsite. There are no showers on site.

There is cell reception on site. That said, we hope you will “disconnect” as completely as possible and enjoy the weekend in Camp Currie’s gorgeous natural setting, surrounded by equally gorgeous people! Here’s a tip: put your device on airplane mode and use it just for pictures, which we hope you’ll share with us afterwards by uploading to https://bit.ly/HBoo24Photos.

About Camp Currie

Nestled amid a canopy of towering Douglas firs, with a rustic lodge and adirondack cabins, Camp Currie feels like it is a million miles away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life.In reality, the 300-acre site is located just five minutes from downtown Camas and has been home to summer youth camps since 1943. The semi-wilderness setting is home to a variety of wildlife.

The name J.D. Currie Youth Camp honors the Camas attorney who conducted an outdoor program for young boys in the Camas area called Boy Rangers in the first part of the 20th century. The 300 acre campsite was leased from Crown Zellerbach, former owners of the now-Georgia Pacific paper mill in Camas, for $1 per year. Materials for the lodge, kitchen, fireplace and outside cooking facilities were donated by the mill and several individuals over the years. Crown Zellerbach also donated the cable for the fences, wood and lumber for fuel, and a large cedar log, which was hauled out to make shakes to cover the lodge and kitchen.

The site is currently owned by the Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation department, and is managed by a non-profit. Is available to rent only by youth organizations.

Food and Cooking at Hullabaloo

Your Hullabaloo registration does not include food. Groups may organize food separately or choose to have families be responsible for their own meals. Please contact your GSM to find out what your group is planning. 

Regardless of whether you care cooking as a group or are planning on cooking your own meals, we highly recommend keeping them simple. There is so much fun stuff happening, and we don’t want anyone missing out on the fun because they are spending too much time on food prep. Also, try to limit the amount of items that require refrigeration. 

Pathfinders will be cooking with their patrols. Pathfinders should plan to work together with their patrols to plan and budget for their meals. Patrols should also plan to invite the Senior Patrol Leaders to dine with them for one meal during the weekend. If your pathfinder has not been in contact with their Hullabaloo patrol to plan these meals as we get close to the event, please contact your Group Scoutmaster.

Although we’re leaving food preparation up to individual groups, we’d like to make the following recommendations:

1. First and foremost, keep it simple! We will have a busy schedule and a lot of people trying to share cooking space. Meals that don’t require much refrigeration and can be reheated, rehydrated, or prepared quickly and simply will be a big help to everyone. Here are some ideas to get you started:

   1. 1. 1. • Breakfast

              • Bagels with nut butter or nutella

              • Oatmeal

              • Muffins

              • Cereal with Shelf Stable Milk

            • Lunch

              • Nut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches

              • Tuna Sandwiches

              • Macaroni & Cheese

              • Hot Dogs

            • Dinner

              • Canned Soup (or pre made and frozen! It will defrost in a cooler and heat up fine at camp)

              • Spaghetti with Jarred Sauce

              • Snack Plate: Hard Cheese, Shelf-Stable Salami, Crackers, Olives, Grapes

              • Grilled Cheese or Quesadillas

2. If possible, eat dinner before arriving on Friday night or bring a cold/simple meal that requires little or no preparation.

3. Please plan on meals that rely on a camp stove or backpacking stove rather than an open fire. There are only a few fire pits/barbecues available, and once they’re used for cooking, we then have to either babysit them (until they’re out) or douse them with water. Option #1 takes the fire-sitter out of the action, while #2 leaves a soaking wet fire pit—a problem if we’d hoped to use it later for a Hullabaloo activity. Open-fire cooking is also dicey if rain is in the forecast. (Also, we have more than 200 people coming to Hullabaloo—if each of them decided to cook over a fire, well, it’d be a little tricky!)

4. There are a limited number of tables in family camp. If you plan on using a camp stove, consider bringing a camp table to use it on.

5. Store matches and stove fuel in a safe place out of reach of Chipmunks (the OSG kind).

6. There’s good drinking water available on site (via a single faucet); please bring a large container to keep water near your campsite and limit the number of people waiting on the faucet at mealtimes.

7. Bring whatever you need to wash your own dishes. Biodegradable soap is preferred. If possible, wash and reuse rather than using and throwing away. 

8. If you need more ice, it can be purchased back in Camas about a 10-minute drive away.