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Scout Arrival, Parking, Check-In,
PARKING
PARKING
No private vehicles are allowed beyond the parking lot. There are two main parking lots at Nobscot, accessible by turning right as you enter the property off of Nobscot Road.
Day Parking: The first parking lot nearest Nobscot Road and is generally for day visitors.
Scout (Overnight) Parking: Drive into the Day Parking lot and bear left – it’s the innermost parking lot up about 100 yards. This lot is for Scouts/Scouters ONLY.
Overflow parking: located down the road from Monson Cabin
✅ Campmaster Check-In
✅ Campmaster Check-In
Please check in with the Campmaster (Henderson Lodge) when you arrive at Nobscot for an overnight stay.
Members of the Campmaster Corps serve at Nobscot to check you in, check you out, help orient your group to Nobscot and where to find Garden Carts as well as latrines and water convenient to your camp location. Campmasters are a wealth of knowledge and are generally onsite whenever troops, teams, dens, or groups are using any part of the Nobscot property.
Garden Carts
Garden Carts
Groups must carry in and carry out everything required for their stay. Check the site descriptions for information on the hiking trails to each site. Garden carts are generally available behind the latrine in the Scout (Overnight) Parking lot. Pulling garden carts up many of the trails can be extremely difficult, generally due to the large, exposed tree roots that can’t be wheeled over. As of early 2026, carts are not permitted on the Pond and Upper Legion trails (past Cabin 31).
It is strongly suggested that your Scouts learn good backpacking skills – they will last for a lifetime!
Still planning on using a cart? If you pull a garden cart up to a site, please return it quickly to the scout overnight parking lot latrine area for others to use. Lat/Long: 42.34795, -71.43808
🪵 Firewood
🪵 Firewood
Do Not bring firewood into Camp. Wood brought in that carries Asian Longhorned Beetles could devastate our forest.
To help deter wildfires, please burn the plentiful limbs and slash covering the forest floor (unless it is rotted) first. Most Nobscot sites also have an abundant supply of nearby split and stacked firewood for units to use. The Campmasters and the volunteers with the Nobscot Hammer Crew split hundreds of cords of wood, stack it for drying, and distribute it around the camp to:
Lodges
Cabins
Lean-to sites
Premium tenting sites
If you are tenting at an Standard tent site or Wilderness Leave no Trace site, Scouts should gather firewood themselves from downed tree branches on the forest floor.
Don’t take wood from the shed
If you see a pile of wood stacked by the side of the trail, it most likely is not sufficiently dry yet for use as firewood.
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