Camp Butternut Springs Gets a New Pool!

Summer would not be summer without cooling off at the pool on hot sunny days. This summer, campers will enjoy our new state-ofthe-art pool at Camp Butternut Springs in Valparaiso, IN. This $3.2 million pool and shower house is Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana’s largest capital improvement project to date and gives the previously existing 50-year-old pool muchneeded updates to ensure it is safe and accessible for all campers.

Girls and volunteers who may experience physical challenges now are able to enjoy swimming at Camp Butternut Springs. The pool has an ADA-compliant lift that will allow greater accessibility for swimmers who will benefit from mobility assistance, and the new shower house features 16 individual wheelchair-accessible shower rooms with private sinks and toilets so all campers, staff, and volunteers will have privacy and improved safety when using the facility.

Some of the other added features of the new pool include a diving board, a covered canopy for shade, lighting for night swims, and water bottle-filling stations. The new pool is also heated, which will extend the pool’s usage to campers for more months of the year!

We are thrilled to be able to provide girls with this new pool and look forward to being part of the memories that will be created here for many years to come.