The land upon which Camp Meriwether sits was purchased in 1926 by Scout Executive George "Chief Obie" Obertueffer of the Portland Area Council.

The combined camps make the Meriwether-Clark Scout Reservation and over 1,000 acres of land along with two miles of private access beach.

The two miles of coastal beach adjacent to the Meriwether-Clark Scout Reservation can be accessed by hiking from a parking lot near the top of the cape or by walking North from Sand Lake Recreation Area.

Cape Lookout is a sharp rocky promontory along the Pacific Ocean coast of northwestern Oregon in the United States.

Named after Kenneth Wells, one of the original staff members at Camp Meriwether and a staff member at Camp Chinidere when the dining hall burnt down in 1925, Wells was one of the first people to discover a small opening at the easternmost face of Cape Lookout that at low tide revealed a small cove that one could walk into and explore.

Complete with masts, pilothouse, and galley, the ship was home to Sea Scout campers who bunked and prepared meals on board.

It is a rather large recreational area, covering 1,076 acres of open sand dunes surrounded by forests, and adjacent to Camp Meriwether and the Pacific Ocean.

Also, there is a distinctive slash through the trees that was cut for telegraph lines and there are turret mounts located at the top of the present day flagpole and parade grounds.

These Browning M2 guns may have come from the wreckage noted in the following paragraph, and were located on top of the Big Lodge fireplace mantle piece.

On arriving at the coast, the crew found the entire area hidden in overcast clouds that extended to an elevation of 8000 feet.

[9] The lease is due to a multimillion-dollar maintenance deferral for properties and operating costs of a council that has seen a drop of nearly 25,000 registered youth since 2004, when Camp Meriwether's current dining hall was built.

In April 2017, the decision to develop a golf course was alleviated due to delays in the letter of intent signage, probability of the proposed project moving forward, and differences in ideas for the use of the property.