For five to ten years the YMCA shared this land for one month with the Girls Work Community Council of Exeter.
In the years to follow, more additions were made such as the shower facilities, rifle and archery ranges, the Catholic chapel, and the Charrette Activity Center and Takesian Memorials.
In 1992, thanks to a $20,000 gift from the George W. Magee Trust Fund, a floating swimming dock system was added to the waterfront.
A joint camp use committee decided to concentrate the council's summer Boy Scout program at Camp Onway and move all Cub and Webelos programs to Lone Tree Scout Reservation.
The Friends of Onway contributed $70,000 to expand and renovate the dining hall to a first-class facility in 1994.
Additional improvements included construction of a parking lot, a redesigning of the rifle range, and renovations to the newly dedicated Rheaume Nature Lodge.
In 2005 the Properties Study Committee started reviewing all council camp properties to determine the best use of assets for the sustainability of the scouting program in the council's service area as part of the long-term strategic planning process.
A recommendation to sell the Camp Onway property was eventually forwarded to the Yankee Clipper Council executive board.
The sale was met with a large amount of opposition from Scouts, Scouters and staff members.
[3] At a meeting on March 22, the Yankee Clipper Council (YCC) executive board voted 26-10 in favor of selling Camp Onway.
On November 30, 2007, Camp Onway was sold to the LDS Church[4] for $2.45 million, which the YCC put into an endowment fund.