Camping Headquarters
Staffed Camp
Elevation 6, 719 ft
Description
Camping Headquarters is base camp - where you ultimately begin and end your Philmont adventure. Itineraries that include a hike into base camp negotiate Tooth Ridge and hike across and open meadow to the "We All Made It!" sign at the southwest corner of the camp.
Activities
Camping services including logistics, food, and equipment issue. Mail, showers, laundry. Tooth of Time Traders. Evening campfire on day 1 and day 12.
Trails
The primary trail into camp switchbacks along Tooth Ridge to the base, then turns south and ends at the "We All Made It!" sign. It has great views of base camp as you descend the ridge. An alternate route cuts off the ridge down a steep-ish canyon, picks up the old Meadow Trail, and ends with a one-mile road walk into camp.
Itineraries Hiking Here
Itinerary 1, day 12
Itinerary 4, day 12
Itinerary 7, day 12
Itinerary 8, day 12
Itinerary 9, day 12
Itinerary 12, day 12
Itinerary 13, day 12
Itinerary 14, day 12
Itinerary 16, day 12
Itinerary 23, day 12
Itinerary 25, day 12
Itinerary 27, day 12
Itinerary 31, day 12
Itinerary 33, day 12
Itinerary 35, day 12
Routes To/From
Clarks Fork - Camping HQ
Lovers Leap - Camping HQ
North Fork Urraca - Camping HQ
Ponderosa Park - Camping HQ
Shaefers Pass - Camping HQ
Tooth Ridge - Camping HQ
Upper Clarks Fork - Camping HQ