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Title: Camps and Camping


1
Camps and Camping
  • Chapter 20

2
Day Camps
  • Area and facility that provides similar to that
    of a resident camp
  • Campers sleep at home
  • Provisions are made for
  • Water, restrooms
  • Rainy-day shelters, first-aid and health areas
  • Eating, cooking, refrigeration
  • Program supplies
  • Buses used to transport campers
  • Adequate storage for equipment, food, and supplies

3
Group Camps
  • Scouts, church groups, school classes
  • Special Campsite
  • Accommodate from 10-40 persons
  • Contain fireplaces for cooking, picnic shelters,
    restrooms, and safe drinking water
  • Winterized buildings for winter campers

4
Campgrounds
  • Traditional - tent camping
  • Replaced by motor homes, trailers, and pop-ups
  • Public campgrounds, traditional amenities
  • water, restrooms, and possibly showers
  • Segregation between tents and motor homes
  • Natural 3 hook up, 2 hook up, 1 hook up, or
    primitive
  • Roads wide enough, often one way
  • Parking- hard stand, asphalt, concrete

5
Family Camps
  • Offer complete meal and living accommodations for
    families and adults
  • Campers stay more than one night and often
    several weeks
  • Privately developed resorts (vacationlands)
  • Offer organized programs and facilities with
    swimming pools, recreation centers, playgrounds,
    courts, horseback riding trails, and marinas

6
Waterfronts
  • Familiarization acquainting with water
  • Instruction programs of teaching
  • Recreation unstructured programs
  • Competition programs of training and competing
  • Various locations
  • Parks, resorts, marinas, clubs, hotels,
    residential developments, other rec. areas
  • Beaches, floating crib, dock, pond, lake, shore,
    pool must be properly located and insured the
    health and safety of the public

7
Natural Waterfronts
  • Water characteristics
  • Sanitary quality
  • Clarity of water
  • Surrounding water source
  • Water quality (bacterial content)
  • Water clarity (visibility test)
  • Circulation should be examined

8
Natural Waterfronts Checklist
  • rate of water flow
  • rate of water turnover
  • water-level fluctuation
  • water constancy
  • availability of water
  • types of currents and undertow
  • outlet for water
  • eddies, floods, waves, or wash
  • weeds, fungi, mold, or slime
  • parasites, fish, animals
  • debris, broken glass
  • oil slick
  • odor, color, tastes

9
Bottom Characteristics
  • Unobstructed, clear of debris, rock, muck, mulch,
    peat, and mud
  • Should consist of gravel, sand, or stable hard
    ground
  • Checklist
  • Bottom movement
  • Amount of holes, debris
  • Slope of subsurface
  • Condition of soil
  • Porosity of bottom
  • Average depth and various depths
  • Bottom color

10
Climate Characteristics
  • Checklist
  • number of storms and type
  • prevailing winds
  • amount of ice
  • change of air temperature
  • amount of precipitation
  • fluctuation of temperature
  • sun exposure

11
Environmental Characteristics
  • Consider
  • Zoning regulations
  • Building codes
  • Insurance restrictions
  • Health ordinances
  • Title covenants
  • Checklist
  • ownership and riparian rights
  • availability of water supply
  • zoning and deed restrictions
  • local, state, and federal regulations
  • adjacent ownerships
  • water patrol and a control agency

12
Program Characteristics
  • Protection
  • Fence or controlled access
  • Internally segregated
  • Storage space
  • Checklist
  • distance of waterfront from other areas
  • access road
  • separation of waterfront activities
  • area for unity of controls
  • space available for adjunct activities

13
Access Characteristics
  • Must be accessible by transportation available to
    the users
  • Vehicular access for emergency and maintenance
    use
  • Free of poison ivy, sumac, poison oak, burdock,
    thistle, and other irritating plants

14
Area Characteristics
  • Waterfront bathing area 50 square feet for each
    user
  • Need areas for instruction, recreation, and
    competition
  • Instruction areas
  • not to exceed 3 feet for beginners
  • not to exceed 5 ½ feet for intermediate swimmers
  • Camp swimming area 60 feet by 30 feet

15
Shore Characteristics
  • Free of irregular rocks, stumps, debris, or
    obstruction
  • Minimum of 100 feet long for bathing in camp area
  • Trees adjacent to waterfront for shade
  • Fewer problems with coniferous

16
Docks and Floats
  • Permanent structures usually set on
  • concrete, wood, or steel foundations
  • decks made in sections of 10-20 feet
  • Docks at least a one-foot air space between the
    deck and water
  • Underwater braces/cross beams kept limited for
    safety
  • Flotation structures drums, balsa wood, cork,
    rigid polystyrene plastic, or steel tanks

17
Waterfront Equipment
  • Lifeguard Station
  • Ladders
  • Log Booms
  • Lemmon Lines
  • Markers and buoys
  • Rescue Craft
  • Kick Rails
  • Towel Racks
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