Philmont Scout Ranch
The Philmont Scout Ranch is a large ranch near Cimarron , a town in New Mexico , United States . It is located in the wilderness of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in the Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico.
Today the ranch is owned by the Boy Scouts of America , the largest US youth association. In 1938 the oil baron Waite Phillips donated a large area near Cimarron in the Rocky Mountains to the BSA, on which the Philturn Rockymountain Scoutcamp was built. Today the camp is called Philmont Scout Ranch and is the main camp and training center of the association. The name Philmont is derived from the name of the founder Phillips and from the mountainous landscape.
The Philmont Scout Ranch is one of the largest youth camps in the world. With an area of around 567.3 square kilometers (140,177 acres ), it is almost as big as Ibiza . In 2013, 35,054 scouts visited the camp. The Philmont Scout Ranch employs more than 1,130 people in the summer season between the beginning of June and the end of August.
In addition to its function as a training camp for the BSA, Philmont still operates a ranch with herds of cattle, bison and horses.
The world's only footprint of a tyrannosaurus was discovered on the grounds of the Philmont Scout Ranch in 1983 and identified and documented in 1994.
Facilities on Philmont
headquarters
The headquarters or base camp is the administrative center of Philmont. It consists of several buildings: Administration, Seton Museum, Villa Philmonte, Philmont Training Center, stables, camping headquarters, three tent cities and four chapels.
Camps
In addition to the base camp, there are 34 manned and 77 unmanned camps (as of 2012). The camps are about 3 km apart. The staff, the program counselors, are responsible for the camp programs in the summer. They are monitored by the camp director . The camps often deal with a specific historical or modern topic, such as logging, forging, trapping, challenges and living in the wild west.
Supply stations
The supply stations are called Philmont Commissaries . Campers and hikers are initially taken care of in the service area of the headquarters (base camp). There are also other supply stations where food and camper utensils are sold. Groups can stop by a supply station every 3–4 days, get what they need and save baggage weight. There are commissaries in Baldy Town, Phillips Junction, Ute Gulch, Ponil, Apache Springs, Rich Cabins, Ring Place, and Miners Park.
Villa Philmonte
The villa was built in 1926 by the oil baron Waite Phillips as a summer home for his family on his ranch. The architecture is based on the Spanish colonial style of the American Southwest. Today the villa is a museum and is dedicated to the memory of the Philmont donor Waite Phillips. The original Phillips furnishings have largely been preserved.
Chase Ranch
Since November 1, 2013, the Philmont Scout Ranch has also operated the neighboring Chase Ranch. Similar to the ranch on Philmont, it is a cattle ranch and is located on Ponil Creek. Former owner Gretchen Sammis Chase set up a foundation with the aim of giving young people the ranching experience.
Philmont Museum and Seton Memorial Library
The Philmont Museum and the Seton Memorial Library are located in the Philmont headquarters. The Philmont Museum deals with the history, art and natural history of the region. The Seton Memorial Library is a collection of books, art, and other personal effects belonging to Ernest Thompson Seton, the founder and first chief scout of the Boy Scouts of America.
Kit Carson Museum
The Kit Carson Museum is a pueblo-style adobe building in Taos Township . It is dedicated to the family history of the pioneer, trapper, rancher and later general Kit Carson , who together with Lucien Maxwell founded the colony on Rayado Creek and lived in this house. Craft, household and agricultural techniques from the 1850s are also demonstrated.
Famous ex-employees
- Donald Rumsfeld , 1949 Guide (forerunner of the Ranger), later Secretary of Defense of the United States from 2001 to 2006 .
- Steve Fossett , 1961 ranger and Philmont Ranch Committee member, later American billionaire , aviation pioneer , regatta sailor and co-owner of Scaled Composites .
literature
- Minor S. Huffman, Sr .: High Adventure Among the Magic Mountains: Philmont, the First 50 Years. TIBS, 1988, OCLC 19855750 .
- William F. Cass: Return to the Summit of Scouting / a Scouter's Midlife Journey Back to Philmont. Wilderness Adventure Books, 1993, ISBN 0-923568-29-8 .
- Stephen Zimmer, Larry Walker: Philmont: A Brief History of the New Mexico Scout Ranch. Sunstone Press, 2000, ISBN 0-86534-293-8 .
- Michael Connelly: Riders in the Sky: The Ghosts and Legends of Philmont Scout Ranch. Merril Press, 2001, ISBN 0-936783-30-3 .
- Lawrence R. Murphy: Philmont: A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country. University of New Mexico Press, 1976, ISBN 0-8263-0244-0 .
Web links
- Official website of the Philmont Scout Ranch
- Collection of links to the Philmont Scout Ranch
- Official website of the Kit Carson Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Philmont. In: Philmont Scout Ranch. Boy Scouts of America, archived from the original on October 24, 2006 ; Retrieved August 31, 2006 .
- ↑ Lawrence R Murphy: Philmont, A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country . University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1976, ISBN 0-8263-0438-9 .
- ↑ 2013 BSA Year in Review. (No longer available online.) Boy Scouts of America, archived from the original on April 11, 2010 ; accessed on August 7, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Footprint of a Giant. In: Online guide to the continental Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Raton basin, Colorado and New Mexico. United States Geological Survey , archived from the original on February 29, 2012 ; Retrieved October 9, 2008 .
- ↑ Villa Philmonte (on philmontscoutranch.org)
- ^ KRTN Radio, Chase Ranch & Philmont Scout Ranch join forces
- ^ Philmont, Seton Memorial Library
- ^ Secretary Rumsfeld's Remarks at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation - US Department of Defense News Transcript - August 29, 2005
- ↑ "NESA President Steve Fossett: A Tribute" ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. National Eagle Scout Association, Eagletter Winter 2008.
- ^ High Country - Philmont Staff Association - October 2007.
Coordinates: 36 ° 27 ′ 15 ″ N , 104 ° 57 ′ 21 ″ W.