Camp Topeneebee (Tope for short) is a boy scout camp near Michigan City. Through our help in the past 14 years, the camp has been able to start hosting summer sessions for scouting again. You don't need any special skills to help at Tope, the boy scout leaders provide that. Every spring semester, our chapter camps at Tope for a weekend, usually meeting Friday night for fellowship and working on Saturday. If camping out isn't your style, you can still come help with the workday on Saturday. Food for Saturday and Sunday breakfast will be provided, covered by a money donation charge to those who attend. Friday night we have fun and games planned outside (ultimate frisbee, capture the flag) and inside (cards, board games). Saturday is the main workday, starting at nine and ending around five, with a lunch break in between. There will be more games Saturday afternoon and a good dinner. Sunday we clean up any messes we made and go home happy. For this weekend excursion, rides will leave from the Valparaiso University Student Union Friday evening and on Saturday morning. To drive yourself, please use the map and directions below.

Contacts

Please email APO.ZG@valpo.edu for more information and we will forward your email to the proper chair in charge of TOPE.

Directions to Camp TOPE

From Southern Indiana : Take I 65 North to 43. Follow HWY 43 north. It will turn into US 421. Continue north.
From Chicago Area: Take either 80 or 94 East to US 421. From 80, go north on 421. From 94, go south.
From Michigan: Take 94 West to US 421 in Indiana. Take 421 south.
From Valpo: Take Rt. 2 through Westville, Turn north on 421.

Once on 421 between 80 and 94, watch for Holmesville Rd and County Rd 100 at a 5 way intersection. You should see signs for Camp To-pe-nee-bee. Holmesville is a very hard right if your going north, and a slight left if you are going south on 421. Once on Holmesville road, look for the camp entrance on the left hand side within the first few miles.