Valley Camp Wish List

To care for your camp of 52 acres with many facilities, we seem to always have ways for you to participate in the care and ongoing improvements of camp. Please consider joining the many that have built and cared for the camp over the past 55 years.

Improving the overnight accommodations

• Yurts to provide more overnight opportunities - ask us what we are considering and how you or your group might be able to help us.
• 24 - new twin size fitted matching sheets for Lodge bunk beds
• 2 new sofas and 1 new love seat for Lodge living area
• Knives and knife block for lodge kitchen
• Small under-counter (silent) dorm room size refrigerator

Improving camping experiences

• 20 yards of 5/8 minus gravel for top coating RV sites
• 20 yards of 1 1/4" minus gravel for new RV sites
• 12 - Heavy guage tubular picnic table frames (call camp we have a good source) *This makes a great servant event or Eagle project.
• 10 6"x6"x8' Pressure treated timbers for stairway construction
• Help to convert outdoor lighting to a more energy efficient and not so bright type of lighting.
• Construction trailer that could be converted into a portable restroom

Improvements to buildings

• Covered entry and handrail for Lodge sidewalk to front door
• 3 - New exterior entry doors with windows for Lodge and help installing them
• An electrician to help install new service panels in main house and generator building
• Roofing for Gazebo and Roundhouse - High relief fire retardant shingles
• Metal roofing for Well House - Champion Snaplock - Evergreen color
• Standard sized refrigerator, to be used outdoors in picnic shelter
• Snow damage resistant gutter for lodge (entry side)
• Metal roofing for Chapel - Champion Snaplock - Evergreen color

Things we need to help us care for what we have already

• 1/2" Drive 6 point thick-wall sockets are really needed
• Tool cart(s) or cabinet(s) on wheels
• Battery powered tools such as 18 volt drills and saws
• 1/2" Electric drill - Skill or Dewalt 120v
• Electric saw - Worm drive saw Dewalt or equivalent 
• Drill bits (new please)
• Air tools
• Large commercial size air compressor
• Misc selection of rust proof bolts, nuts and washers 1/8" - 1/2" diameter
• 6 gallons of paint for exterior of Meadow View Cabin - (color match required)
• Hoist for lifting heavy objects in maintenance shop
• 6 - 30 gallon Rubbermaid garbage cans with snap lids

Things we need to complete the remodel of camp welcome center

• Help completing wiring upgrade
• Help with interior wallboard and wood trim installation
• Display cabinets / counters for camp welcome center
• 10' x 12' of flooring treatment for concrete floor of Welcome Center
• Apple Laptop for Camp Office
• 120 - 8x8x16 split faced blocks
• Flowers and baskets for Welcome Center
• Concrete or paver blocks for patio off rear of welcome center

Things to make your experience while at camp even more fun

• Basketballs, Volleyballs, and ball storage bin
• Tether ball
• 10 yards of cedar playground chips
• Farm Wagon for pulling behind tractors (Hay rides anyone?)

Improvements to trails and roads

• 2 - new camp size Wrong Way signs
• 3 - camp size 5 mph signs
• 2 - 3’ x 20’ steel or plastic culverts or 'D' Culvert
• 1 - 3' diameter by 3 long culvert section
• Trail signs (might make a great youth group or Scout Eagle project)
• Someone with heavy equipment to volunteer time and machine hours
• 10 yards of rock to be used for fill to raise new trail to stay dry in winter

The Barn remodel

• Your ideas and wishes for what we should do with the 'old' barn
• Barn restoration help and materials
• Roofing for barn - Champion Snaplock
• Large bat condo for our expanding little brown bat population so we can move them out of the barn roof

Misc project needs

• 12 volt lighting equipment for solar project
• Solar demonstration project design help
• Help thinning dense patch of Alder behind RV sites to allow for proper replanting creating open space for picnic sites - you can have the firewood!
• Help cutting, splitting, moving and stacking firewood
• A facebook expert to help us create a new fan page and or convert our first page over to a 'real' page that everyone can enjoy.

Major new project needs

• New water well with large storage tank for improved fire protection
• New water main to supply water to fire hydrants near major buildings
• Extending new underground power to replace last old buried power line
• Kitchen and Bathroom remodel for mainhouse (built in the early 1960's)

Other ways you can participate with us at Valley Camp:

We could use the help of graphic designers, photographers, and folks good with words to help us with publicity. We need folks with business, legal, marketing and environmental knowledge. We need folks to participate in planning committees, barn restoration planning and to help us recruit volunteers. Talk to us about your skills and interests and we’ll help find you a way to participate that’s right for you!