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CAMPSITE OPTIONS
CAMPSITE OPTIONS
CAMPING ZONES: A-B-C
Three Things needed before a camp site is confirmed:
Submit completed Camping Request Form
Paid Registration
Sign-up for an unit scouting display/activity.
For the Activity: Email Info@ScoutingTheZoo.org
Email: "Info@ScoutingTheZoo.org" with questions not answered in the FAQ
Note: that all units will be required to get an "All Clear" from a site commissioner before being able to exist the Zoo.
Request for Camping spaces in 2026 exceeded the usual amount, please submit your request early.
Scouting the Zoo Camp Map!
Category A Zones - Less Restrictions
Category A Zones - Less Restrictions
Zone 1
Lake Evinrude
Zone 2
ARC Building
Zone 3
Caribou
Zone 4
Grizzly
Zone A
Parking Lot
No general restrictions
Cooking on stoves are off the ground with plywood underneath the area, so that no part of the ground is scorched.
Weather permitting a firepit may be allowed.
Category B Zones - More Restrictions
Category B Zones - More Restrictions
Zone 5
Family Farm
Zone 6
Aviary
Scouting the Zoo and the Milwaukee County Zoo does not permit any Scouts who are attending Scouting the Zoo to play on the Playground from the time they arrive until the Scouting the Zoo event ends on Sunday when the public arrives. This responsibility will be placed upon your unit leader or your emergency event contact to ensure there are no scouts playing on the play ground. *Serious repurcussions will occur to units if their Scouts from any unit - including Scouts BSA AND Cub Scouts attending for the day; are caught on the play ground during Scouting the Zoo.
MORE RESTRICTIONS:
NO firepit or open flame allowed.
Some areas may be closed due to high sensitivity of the creatures in close proximity.
No Scouts are allowed to play on the Playground from the time they arrive until the Scouting the Zoo event ends on Sunday when the public arrives.
Category C Zones - Staff & Special
Category C Zones - Staff & Special
Zone 8
Giraffe
Zone 9
Harbor Seals
Zone 10
Zoo Terrace
TENTING
TENTING
Cub Scouts:
Parents and Guardians may share a tent with their family. *All parents and guardians must pay to be at the event!*
Scouts BSA & Venture Crews: (Older youth in the program.)
Separate tenting arrangements must be provided for male and female adults, and for male and female youth.
Youth and adults must tent separately.
Youth sharing a tent must be no more than two years apart in age.
Spouses may share a tent.
Youth Protection and Adult Leadership - Scouting America
For any questions: please refer to the link below:
Unit Campsite Allocation:
Sites are assigned based on:
Choices submitted on the form "Zoo Campsite Request"
Number of registered participants
Unit Display / Activity Type
Food / Cooking needs / Fire Needs
Trailers will be allowed to transport gear in and out of the zoo on both Friday night and Sunday morning, but no trailers are allowed in the zoo between 9:00 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Camping follows the BSA Overnight 72-hour camping rules.
CAMPSITE ALLOCATION
CAMPSITE ALLOCATION
Unit Campsite Allocation:
Sites are assigned based on:
Choices submitted on the form "Zoo Campsite Request"
Number of registered participants
Unit Display / Activity Type
Food / Cooking needs / Fire Needs
Trailers will be allowed to transport gear in and out of the zoo on both Friday night and Sunday morning, but no trailers are allowed in the zoo between 9:00 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Camping follows the BSA Overnight 72-hour camping rules.
Scouting Registration
Scouting Registration
Effective Sept. 1, 2023, all adults staying overnight in connection with a Scouting activity must be in Scouting America as an registered adult volunteer or an adult program participant. Cub Scout parents or legal guardians taking part in an overnight Cub Scout program with their own child or legal ward are not required to BSA register as leaders. This is called the Cub Scout overnight exception.
A BSA unregistered parent or legal guardian must be accompanied by a BSA registered leader any time they are with youth members other than their own child or ward. Any other adult that wishes to camp at a BSA event — no matter the age of the youth at the event — must register as a member of the BSA.
Event Registration
Event Registration
Scouting America registered youth and adults and "Cub Scout overnight exception" parents who want to attend the private event are asked to register and pay for the event through the Council Website. A wristband is provided for all Event Registered attendees so they can take part in the private event.
If you register with the Day Program package and want to pay the extra $12 for the Dinner fee and watch the closing ceremonies; you must leave the Zoo by 10:00 pm.
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