Gerber Scout Reservation Bath House

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 each year, hosting more than 2,500 scouts during the year.

Spicer Group was hired by the Michigan Crossroads Council to design a new restroom and shower facility at the Gerber Scout Reservation. The new facility is constructed of 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.

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. The project was completed in mid-November 2020 on budget.