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== Scouting Activities ==
== Scouting Activities ==
* See also [[Alabama State Parks]]
* See also [[Alabama State Parks]]


=== Traditional Boy Scout Camps ===
=== Traditional Boy Scout Camps ===
* Camp Alaflo -
* Camp Arrowhead - CLOSED - operated from the early 1940's to 1971 and was located on the Coosa River near Clanton, AL.
* Camp Horne - Located in east Tuscaloosa County, Camp Horne is a 496-acre facility.
* Camp Jackson -  a 515-acre primitive camp located 5 miles east of Scottsboro on the Tennessee River at Jones Cove.
* Camp McKenzie - In 2006, when the Birmingham Area Council Boy Scouts was dissolved, Camp McKenzie became a interdenominational Christian camp named '''Camp Winnataska'''.
* Camp O'Rear - a 90-acre primitive-style facility located in Jasper, AL.
* Camp Pushmataha - is the council's weekend primitive facility, and was at one time the Council Camp. It is located in Citronelle, AL.
* Camp Zinn - in Dekalb County, operated from 1931 to 1965.  On September 8, 1966 meeting, the Official Board of Camp Lee,a United Methodist Church organization, purchase the camp from the Choccolocco Council, and renamed it Camp Lee.
* Frank Spain Scout Reservation - Also called '''Camp Sequoyah''', a 1,447 acres camp in east central Alabama, near Cheaha State Park.
* Hugh M Comer Scout Reservation
* Maubila Scout Reservations
* Warner Scout Reservation
* Camp Westmoreland - closed


=== Recreational Camps ===
=== Recreational Camps ===