BIG SUR – The Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council of the Boy Scouts of America is promoting Camp Pico Blanco, its storied 368-acre scout camp surrounded by the Ventana Wilderness close to Huge Sur, at an asking value of $1.8 million.
Deputy Scout Govt and CEO Eric Tarbox stated Camp Pico Blanco is being bought as a result of entry has been hampered for the reason that 2016 Soberanes fireplace swept by the realm and only a few months later the 2017 rains washed out sections of roadway.
“Scouts will not be in a position to make use of the camp and will not be capable of for the foreseeable future,” stated Tarbox. “Most particularly, we aren't promoting it for monetary want, however as a result of scouts can’t use it.”
Camp Pico Blanco has been shuttered for the reason that summer season of 2016 when it was evacuated because of the Soberanes Fireplace. The camp was saved by firefighters – the third time it had been saved from wildfires together with the 1977 Marble Cone and the 2008 Basin Complicated fires.
The scout camp is accessible from Freeway 1, alongside the Huge Sur Coast, at Palo Colorado Highway. Although restore work has been finished alongside the street to Bottcher’s Hole, or to milepost 7.4, one other 3.5 miles of Palo Colorado Highway to Camp Pico Blanco on the finish of the street isn't repaired resulting from a scarcity of funding from the federal and county governments.
Tarbox defined that the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council of the Boy Scouts has created a partnership committee with the Huge Sur Land Belief and others over the previous two years gathering enter on how greatest to proceed. The group determined that one of the best path could be to discover a group accomplice to promote to who would prioritize stewardship of the land, have a possible for scouts to make use of the land sooner or later at some stage and supply the vendor with some monetary acquire.
In response to Tarbox, the Council of Boy Scouts has a request for proposals out for certified events with a imaginative and prescient for the camp.
Mahoney and Associates Industrial Actual Property is dealing with the itemizing and Peter Baird is the itemizing agent.
The location, located on the north fork of the Little Sur River, has 20 buildings with a complete of twenty-two,525 sq. ft and features a eating corridor, campsites and a seasonally-permitted flashboard dam. The property was donated to the scout council in 1948 by William Randolph Hearst and has served as a summer season camp for a number of generations of scouts from the Monterey Peninsula area, and throughout the state and nation because it opened in 1955.
Earlier than Hearst, the land had been inhabited for about 3,000 years by Native Individuals together with the Rumsen who occupied the realm from Carmel by Palo Colorado Canyon and into the Little Sur space. From there, the Esselen inhabited the area south towards what's now Lucia, in accordance with the Monterey County Historic Fee. Native folks have been assimilated by the Mission system or perished from illness introduced by Spanish troopers, clerics and civilians who got here to the realm from Europe within the early 1770s.
Subsequent got here the California Mexican Interval from 1821 to 1846 when Huge Sur’s pioneer period started with the Mexican authorities granting of the almost 9,000-acre Rancho El Sur which stretched from the mouth of the Little Sur River to Cooper Level.
By 1891, the U.S. Authorities was granting homesteaders parcels of land bringing industrial ventures to the realm together with harvesting timber from redwoods that have been loaded onto ready vessels at Notley’s Touchdown close to the doorway to Palo Colorado Highway. Curiosity in preserving the redwoods prompted Hearst to purchase the land and convey it to the scouts.
Camp Pico Blanco is surrounded by the Los Padres Nationwide Forest, the Ventana Wilderness and undeveloped, personal land owned by Graniterock.
The request for proposals for the sale of Camp Pico Blanco says that “along with promoting the asset, the (Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council) can be in search of to retain restricted entry rights to the property in perpetuity for the needs of Scouting associated actions.”
Tarbox stated the small volunteer committee of the Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council will assessment the request for proposals submissions and determine on its accomplice.