Your first summer
A week at resident camp with the troop, with swimming, canoeing, first-year skills and your first merit badges.
Adventures
High adventure
As Scouts grow, so do the adventures. Our older Scouts paddle, backpack, sail and dive their way across North America, and plan much of it themselves.
The Adirondack canoe trek
Every August, a crew of Troop 75 Scouts spends a week paddling through the Adirondack backcountry: carrying canoes and gear between lakes, cooking on camp stoves and camping somewhere new each night. Shorter mini-treks on lakes like Raquette and Lows Lake earlier in the year build the skills (and the stamina) the big trip needs.
Beyond the Adirondacks
Recent and upcoming Troop 75 high adventure includes:
- Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario (2026): a week of lake-to-lake canoe tripping across the border
- Philmont Scout Ranch, New Mexico (2025): backpacking in the mountains of Scouting America's largest high-adventure base
- National Scout Jamboree (2026)
- Florida Sea Base (2022, and again in 2027): sailing, snorkeling and scuba diving in the Florida Keys
High-adventure trips are for older, experienced Scouts, and they're planned well in advance, with training, shakedown trips and a fundraising plan so cost isn't a barrier.
Growing into high adventure
Ages 13 and up
Longer treks with the troop, National Youth Leadership Training, and the Order of the Arrow, Scouting's honor society.
Older Scouts
Scouting America's national bases (Philmont, Northern Tier, Florida Sea Base and the Summit Bechtel Reserve), usually for Scouts 14 and up.
The National Jamboree
Thousands of Scouts from across the country in one place, for many a once-in-a-Scouting-career trip.
Treks and adventures every year
Spring & fall
High Peaks hikes
Day hikes up Adirondack and Catskill summits, from first-timer climbs to big High Peaks days above treeline.
Adirondacks & Catskills
Early summer & September
Mini canoe treks
Long weekends paddling and camping on Adirondack lakes like Raquette Lake and Lows Lake. The perfect first taste of backcountry tripping.
Adirondacks
New Year's Day
First Day Hike
We start every year on the trail, with a New Year's Day hike at Camp Rotary.
Rotary Scout Reservation, Poestenkill
April
Spring break trip
Over spring break, Scouts travel to places like Gettysburg, Washington, D.C. and Assateague Island.
May
20-mile hike
The long-distance day that completes the Hiking merit badge.
Summer
National high adventure
Older Scouts take on Scouting America's high-adventure bases (backpacking at Philmont, sailing and diving at Florida Sea Base) and trips like Algonquin Park and the National Jamboree.
August
Adirondack canoe trek
A week-long canoe trip through the Adirondack backcountry, carrying everything we need and camping on the shore each night.
Adirondacks
