Camp Tuckahoe is located in the South Mountain west of Dillsburg on the York - Cumberland county border. It is the largest of three boy scout camps operated by the York/Adams Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Formerly a hunting camp, the 1300 acre site was purchased by the council in March 1947. This is one of the areas that was heavily mined for magnetite, hematite and clay during the late 1800's As you drive up Tuckahoe road toward the camp the mountain on the right side of the road is full of old roads and ruins, although may be hard to get to now that homes have been built all along the road. I would guess that there is evidence of past mining on the camp property too. The top of the mountain on the right side of the road is the York-Cumberland county line.
Interestingly, there are actually two very large and somewhat mysterious camps in those woods. On the other side of the South Mountain ridge from Camp Tuckahoe is the Mount Holly side of the mountain at Whiskey Springs. Near where the Whiskey Springs road connects to the Mountain Road on the Mt Holly side, there is a state game land. That dirt road goes up onto South Mountain in the general direction of Dillsburg and Camp Tuckahoe. Far, far back that road is a camp that I think is operated by Tressler Luthern Services. I always heard it was a camp for bad kids, kind of a nature boot camp. Not sure how many acres. Anyway, these two large camps are located about a mile apart up on that mountain with Tuckahoe in York County and the Tressler camp in Cumberland county.
