Camp Cedar Point - Carbondale, Illinois

Camp is open year-round (platform tents are available April – October)

Lower Lake Waterfront

 

Camp Cedar Point serves as a summer resident camp for Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois. Located in Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge on 250 acres with a beach on Little Grassy Lake.


Girls enjoy primitive camping as well as camping in hogans, (roofed, wooden structures surrounded with screening) and platform tents. Sunny Hall (the dining hall) is available for program activities. Bruce Lodge and Sahara Lodge are available for overnight and program activities.

Below is a list of accommodations for each unit in Camp Cedar Point

 

Sahara Lodge
Bruce Lodge
Rocky Ledges
Tall Timber
Heat
Fireplace
Bathroom
Kitchen with electric stove, refrigerator, sink, microwave, brooms and some cooking utensils
Mattresses
Capacity - 32
Wheelchair accessible
Heat
Fireplace
Bathroom
Kitchen with electric stove, refrigerator, sink, microwave, brooms and some cooking utensils
Mattresses
Capacity - 32

7 platform tents
Wheelchair accessible
Covered picnic shelter
Fire pit
Picnic tables
Running water
Access to latrines
No electricity
Capacity - 28
7 platform tents
Covered picnic shelter
Fire pit
Picnic tables
Running water
Access to latrines
No electricity
Capacity - 28
 
Lakefront
Nonami
Hilltop & Whippoorwill
Pioneer
7 platform tents
Covered picnic shelter
Fire pit
Picnic tables
Running water
Access to latrines
No electricity
Capacity - 28
5 platform tents
Covered picnic shelter
Fire pit
Picnic tables
Running water
Access to latrines
No electricity
Capacity - 30
Hogans (each sleeping 4)
Cots & mattresses provided
Covered picnic shelter
Fire pit
Picnic tables
Running water
Access to latrines
No electricity
3 Hogans (2 large sleep 12 each; one small sleeps 4)
Cots & mattresses provided
Covered picnic shelter
Fire pit
Picnic tables
Running water
Access to latrines
No electricity

Primitive Camping
Sites and tents are available for pitching tents. Request tents in advance.

 

 

Camp Forms

How to Reserve a Council Site - Camp Application - Camp Report
General Camp Information - Property Usage Fees - Check-out List

 

For more site or reservation information, please contact the service center at 618.692.0692 - 800.345.6858 or by email at: smiller@gsofsi.org

 

 
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