Lows Lake is considered one of the premiere wilderness paddling and camping destinations and is surrounded by the Five Ponds Wilderness.

A statement from a Boy Scouts official has also been added. A reporter was turned away by Scout employees at the entrance to the camp on Scout Road in rural Newton County on Monday afternoon.

LEXINGTON - A couple from Lexington, Massachusetts is suing the Boy Scouts of America after their son died on a camping trip. Eleven-year-old Keoni Hubbard was with his troop at Manning Lake in ...

owned since 1960 by the Boy Scouts' National Capital Area Council (NCAC), which every summer draws scouting troupes from across the DC Metro Area to camp beside the placid 444-acre Lake Merriweather.

In March, two months after the fire, Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America, decided that the camp will be rebuilt. The future of the camp was initially unknown, though “whether it’s ...