Michigan Crossroads Boy Scout Camp

The Boy Scouts of America’s Michigan Crossroads Council facilitates several camps and properties around Michigan for activities through the Boy Scouts of America. One of those properties is the Gerber Scout Reservation, located in the Manistee National Forest, near Twin Lake, Michigan. Gerber Scout Reservation operates Boy Scout Summer Camp and Webelos and Cub Scout Summer Camp that combined will host more than 2,500 scouts each year. The Michigan Crossroads Council hired Spicer Group to design a new restroom and shower facility at the Gerber Scout Reservation. The new facility is constructed with CMU bearing walls on a concrete slab, wood trusses, and a metal roof. There are four single-use restrooms, six combination restroom/showers, a laundry room, and utility room with water and electricity from existing utilities on site. This involved installing plumbing fixtures and creating designs for domestic water distribution, rainwater drainage, HVAC, electrical service/distribution, lighting, and branch wiring. The sanitary waste from the building is treated by an on-site septic field. Although the facility is designed for year-round use, drain down provisions were incorporated into the design for the option to winterize the structure. Spicer Group provided survey, design, site plan, engineering, bidding assistance, and construction administration services for this project.