Camp Olmsted (Boy Scouts of America)

Camp Olmsted is a Scout camp located in the Allegheny National Forest, near the city of Warren in Warren County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is operated by the Chief Cornplanter Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the oldest Boy Scout Council in America.

Camp Olmsted was purchased for the Council in 1926 by George W. Olmsted. [http://cccbsa.com/olmsted/index.html Camp Olmsted] , Chief Cornplanter Council, Boy Scouts of America] Olmsted had previously founded the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCo) and served as Chairman of the National Camping Committee of the Boy Scouts of America.

Camp Olmsted's first summer camping season was in 1927. For nearly forty years, Boy Scouts camped in the nearly-flat bottomland along the bank of the Allegheny River. However, the construction of the Kinzua Dam and the later Seneca Pumped Storage Generating Station forced the displacement of the camp to a location a distance up the hillside from the river. Because of this, the camp now has one of the steepest grades of any Boy Scout camp in America.

Chief Cornplanter Council's Order of the Arrow Lodge, [http://webpages.atlanticbb.net/~wilsric/lodge255/ Gyantwachia Lodge #255] , provides service to Olmsted. The lodge was first organized in 1944 as "Cornplanter Lodge", ultimately changing its name to "Gyantwachia", which means "the planter," or "he who plants (corn)" referring to the Seneca name of Chief Cornplanter. The Lodge totem is the wolf.

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