CAMP PENNYROYAL

Camp Site

Camp Pennyroyal is a beautiful woodland site located 15 miles south of Owensboro, Kentucky. The camp features a brand new lodge, hiking trails, and a peaceful eight-acre lake for swimming, canoeing, and kayaking. The swimming area consists of a well-guarded crib (a shallow aluminum pool built into the lake for safety), roped-off swimming area, diving board, and water slide. Pennyroyal has a lodge for meals, a large arts and crafts shelter, a central shower house for daily showers, a Health Center, and an amphitheatre for skits and campfires

Campers
Pennyroyal campers are primarily grades one through nine. Lots of girls come to Camp Pennyroyal for their first resident or "sleep away" camping experiences, and many come back year after year! Most of our campers are registered Girl Scouts who are interested in badge work and Girl Scout traditions!

Traditions

Opening and Closing Campfires- The first and last night of every session are marked by campfires at the Amphitheater, attended by the whole camp. Units present skits, songs.
Meals- Before the meal, a unit will “hop” the tables. “Hoppers” are responsible for setting the tables and retrieving food from the kitchen. After the meal has been finished, campers, with the assistance of staff, wash their own dishes in “beaver buckets” before we put them in the sanitizer.
Singing- One thing that anyone who comes to Camp Pennyroyal learns very quickly is that we love to sing! We traditionally sing before and after every meal, and at campfires. But that doesn’t mean you won’t hear a melody coming from a unit hiking down a trail or a group of girls swimming in the lake!
Theme Meals- Throughout the week during breakfast lunch and dinner Camp Pennyroyal campers and staff participate in theme meals. Sometime this involves dressing up and sometimes it involves certain challenges that must be carried out during the meal!
All-Camp Games- At least once a session the entire camp participates in a game or some type of large scale activity that everyone gets involved in!


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	CAMP PENNYROYAL Camp Site Camp Pennyroyal is a beautiful woodland site located 15 miles south of Owensboro, Kentucky. The camp features a brand new lodge, hiking trails, and a peaceful eight-acre lake for swimming, canoeing, and kayaking. The swimming area consists of a well-guarded crib (a shallow aluminum pool built into the lake for safety), roped-off swimming area, diving board, and water slide. Pennyroyal has a lodge for meals, a large arts and crafts shelter, a central shower house for daily showers, a Health Center, and an amphitheatre for skits and campfires Campers Pennyroyal campers are primarily grades one through nine. Lots of girls come to Camp Pennyroyal for their first resident or "sleep away" camping experiences, and many come back year after year! Most of our campers are registered Girl Scouts who are interested in badge work and Girl Scout traditions! Traditions Opening and Closing Campfires- The first and last night of every session are marked by campfires at the Amphitheater, attended by the whole camp. Units present skits, songs. Meals- Before the meal, a unit will “hop” the tables. “Hoppers” are responsible for setting the tables and retrieving food from the kitchen. After the meal has been finished, campers, with the assistance of staff, wash their own dishes in “beaver buckets” before we put them in the sanitizer. Singing- One thing that anyone who comes to Camp Pennyroyal learns very quickly is that we love to sing! We traditionally sing before and after every meal, and at campfires. But that doesn’t mean you won’t hear a melody coming from a unit hiking down a trail or a group of girls swimming in the lake! Theme Meals- Throughout the week during breakfast lunch and dinner Camp Pennyroyal campers and staff participate in theme meals. Sometime this involves dressing up and sometimes it involves certain challenges that must be carried out during the meal! All-Camp Games- At least once a session the entire camp participates in a game or some type of large scale activity that everyone gets involved in! Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana, 1999-2009