Camp Watonka

Field trips to the Appalachian Trail for hiking and mountain biking and to the Delaware River for tubing and kayaking were scheduled each summer.

Several of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s historic gravity railroads used to pass through the camp, transporting anthracite coal over the Moosic Mountains from Scranton to Hawley.

During the summer of 2006, all campers and staff left the camp for three nights as a precautionary measure due to a sudden rise in the level of Middle Creek, caused by a week of heavy rain.

A distinctive monocline[4] can be seen from the historic truss bridge that crosses Middle Creek about twenty feet above the Falls.

There were laboratories for chemistry and physics, a nature cabin, with facilities for a variety of animals that are brought to camp by counselors and instructors, and two computer suites.

Experienced instructors and counselors delivered classes in their specialist subjects, including architecture, renewable energy, automotive design and quantum mechanics.

[citation needed] Campers learned how to swim, canoe, kayak, row, sail and windsurf at the camp’s private, spring-fed lake.

[citation needed] Camp Watonka was owned and directed by Donald Wacker, a retired science teacher from New Jersey and leader with the Boy Scouts of America, and his wife, a nurse, since its founding in 1963.