Seneca Waterways Council

Seneca Waterways Council (SWC) is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves youth in Ontario, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, and Monroe Counties in Western New York.

In December 1932, Monroe and Orleans counties split off to become the Red Jacket Council (#363).

[citation needed] The Otetiana Council served the Greater Rochester area.

At the time of the merger with the Finger Lakes Council the council service center was located in Downtown Rochester, New York and it was operating the Massawepie Scout Camps in the Adirondack Park as well as Camp Cutler in Naples, New York.

[citation needed] The Scouts BSA summer program was removed from the camp in Fall 2021.

Joseph Cutler was an avid supporter of Scouting and served as the treasurer of the Rochester Council.

During the same time, negotiations began with the Keenan family to purchase their lands for a new camp.

Cub Scout Adventure Camp is a three-day, two night Cub Scout summer camp based on five adventure themes: the ships of the High Seas, a fort of the old west, a castle of medieval times, a mountain man encampment and a Native American village.

Otetiana Council purchased the Massawepie property in 1951, and opened the first summer camp in 1952.

The reservation includes all of Massawepie Lake and nine other freshwater ponds (Catamount, Long, Round, Horseshoe, Boot Tree, Deer, Town Line, Pine and Lost).

The camp is one of the largest Boy Scout reservations in the Northeastern United States, and attracts visiting Boy Scout troops from throughout the region and the country, including California, and New Jersey.

Council office
Massawepie Lake