National Outdoor Badge for Camping

What it asks

1. First Class rank, or the Sea Scout Apprentice rank, or Venturing Ranger Award requirements 1 through 6.
2. The Camping merit badge requirements.
3. Two of three: Cooking merit badge (or Ranger Cooking core), First Aid merit badge (or Ranger First Aid core), Pioneering merit badge.
4. 25 days and nights of camping under the auspices of Scouting America, including six consecutive days (five nights). Nights camped for requirements 1 to 3 count. Sea Scouts may count nights aboard a boat.

The week that has to be at camp

For Scouts, the six consecutive days of requirement 4 must be at a Scouting America accredited resident camp. Summer camp is the usual way to get them.

The six badges

This is one of six National Outdoor Badges: camping, hiking, aquatics, conservation, riding and adventure. Each is a segment that sits around a center emblem, which comes with your first one. Gold and silver devices on a segment recognize work beyond the badge. Awards Central also lists a National Medal for Outdoor Achievement, but scouting.org does not publish its requirements; ask your council.

What this page is

The National Outdoor Badge for Camping, drawn so the merit badges come first and the night count runs underneath them all, with the week at resident camp marked as the part most often missing. It is not a copy of the requirements: each step is a short label with a link to the official requirements, which are what actually governs.