News & Updates

Through a partnership with Mississippi Valley BSA Council Explorer Post program, twelve youth completed our Hunt Club program for the 2021 year. The youth attended monthly meetings focused on hunting,…

In partnership with the Illinois Conservation Foundation, we held our final Wildlife Encounter Series workshop: Wood Duck Banding on August 28th. A great group of 15 youth and 11 adults joined…

In partnership with WHITETAILS UNLIMITED, we hosted twenty-two youth (ages 12-17) for a two-day, overnight Whitetail Archery Academy at Gardner Camp. These boys and girls participated in hands-on, interactive shooting…

We were happy to host Jayda Hill from WGEM at Gardner Camp to interview several Gardner Camp youth about their experiences at Camp. We think they did a wonderful job…

Gardner Camp has had an exciting year bringing in new resources for our Astronomy Program.  With the addition of a new, high-powered telescope and our digital StarLab planetarium, we are…

Gardner Camp is proud to announce its acceptance into the NASA Night Sky Network (NSN).  The NASA Night Sky Network is a nationwide coalition of amateur astronomy clubs bringing the…

Fishing, Frogging, Ice Skating, oh my! Late this summer and early fall, we completed construction on a brand-new, 3-acre youth fishing pond.  A wetland area within walking distance from Gardner…

PIN OAK FOUNDATION RECEIVES LARGEST GRANT TO DATE FROM ROTARY FOUNDATION OF QUINCY FOR GARDNER CAMP STARLAB A recent $35,000 donation will show Quincy area students that the sky is…

And so, it begins – we work and wait all year long for this season! In early September through mid-January, the weekends at GC are filled with wide-eyed kiddos and…