Camp Durant

Introduction

Located on a 2400-acre reservation close to the famous golf courses of Pinehurst, Camp Durant offers a complete complement of swimming merit badges on our beautiful Nello Teer Lake, BSA Lifeguard and recertification classes, shooting sports, handicraft, scoutcraft, Eagle required merit badges are offered. For the venturous, we offer Climbing, a high/low ropes COPE course and Horsemanship. Field trips to the Airborne & Special Operations Museum at Ft. Bragg and other specialty trips are planned. An air conditioned dining hall and fully stocked trading post are also available. Family night activities and OA ceremonies are also held. Eleven campsites that house 40 campers, tents on pallets (2 per tent) with an additional covered shelter is provided. Area showers and facilities are available for youth and adults. A fully equipped health lodge is manned around the clock.

Camp Durant WebSite

Directions

Map

Take US-1 south from Raleigh past Sanford to the US-15/501 exit to Carthage and Pinehurst (you will see the Regal Inn on your right just before you exit to the right).
Take US-15/501 South to the outskirts of Carthage where the speed limit drops to 35 mph (enforced!).
Where 15/501 veers left and continues to Pinehurst, you will continue to head straight (west) where NC-24/27 peels off into Carthage.
Continue into town until you reach a traffic circle which goes around the town’s courthouse.
Turn right and go halfway around the traffic circle (as if you had gone straight through the courthouse) and continue on NC-24/27 to the outskirts of town.
After you have passed a couple of convenience markets and a graveyard on your right, you will come to a “Y” intersection where you will turn left onto Bethlehem Church Rd. (On your right will be a green highway information sign with “Occoneechee Scout Camps” and an arrow pointing the way). What used to be an old gas station will be on your left in the “Y”. You will come to a very sharp curve almost immediately after turning ... go slow!
After about 8 miles of twisting country road, you will come to a stop sign.
After stopping, go through the intersection for less than a mile.
On your left you will pass a brick Methodist church before coming to the service entrance to Camp Durant.
The entrance to Durant is about a half-mile further on the left.
Park in the parking lot and check in at the adjacent Administration Building.

Camp Durant phone: (910) 948-2382; FAX (910) 948-2284.

The Ranger’s residence is about a mile-and-a-half further down Bethlehem Church Rd. on the left at the entrance to Camp Reeves.

You must to check in with him if the main gate to Durant is locked. Rangers phone: (910) 948-3258; Camp Reeves Administration Building phone: (910) 948-2804

Location

If you would like to use the GPS coordinates method for viewing the map, here are the coordinates for the flag pole located in the field behind the mess hall:

Latitude: 35 deg 20.241 mins N (35.33736 Decimal)

Longitude: 79 deg 32.907 mins W (-79.54845 Decimal)

Elevation: 383.9 ft

Special Thanks To... Greg Parrott, Bear Den Leader for Pack 495 in Durham, N.C. for providing these coordinates.