Centre summer camps

When signing up for a center camp you can choose three activities that your group wants to try during the camp.  

You can read about the various activities at this website. There is a wide range from handicraft to climbing, sailing and nature games.

Read about the activities here.

All our staff are unpaid volunteers spending a camp week at Houens Odde doing activities for the camp participants.


We aim at having trained instructors in all activity areas but if the relevant competencies are not present among the staff during the week you are attending, we may not be able to offer the activity. But we always do our best to ensure as wide a range of activities as possible.

Some of our activities are “do-it-yourself”, which means there will not be an instructor present, but you will receive an easy-to-do instruction manual and the equipment you need to do the activitity.

To make activities run smoothly, we expect scout group leaders to help out at bit.

Activity periods and times

The activities usually run from 9.30 AM -11.30 AM and from 14.00 PM-16.30 PM. This is, however, up to the camp staff of your week to decide the exact times.

There may also be activities in the evening. Your camp staff will let your know.

During a center camp at Houens Odde scout and guide groups have their own camp sites, surrounded by forest, fjord and open fields. Often large groups have their own campsite while smaller groups may get to share a camp site with another group.

The campsites have fixed fireplaces and extra portable fireplaces can be added if there are more groups in the campsite. Due to protection of the area digging in the campsites is not allowed. Therefore all pioneering constructions must be made to stand on the ground and every group can borrow a barrel for waste water.

Pioneering poles are available in all campsites.

Cars must be parked in the parking lots and driving to the campsites is not allowed. Instead the camp staff can offer a tractor for transporting heavy luggage.

Read more on camp sites here

We have cold storage facilities for each scout group in the basement of ‘Skoven’, where milk and other perishable food can be stored. Each group will get a shelf and the groups will take turns to keep the room clean.

In general we do not offer to store frozen foods. The camp staff may be able to help store a minimum amount, but this is not something that can be expected, as our freezer capacity is limited.

Cleaning the cold storage 

A list will be put on the door, telling when your group is responsible for cleaning.

Please remember to empty the cold storage of your leftover groceries before you leave Houens Odde at the end of your camp week.

If you do not want to take the leftover food with you – or throw it away, you are welcome to ask the centre staff, if they or other scout groups can use it. But make sure to make an agreement with either other scouts groups or the centre staff about this. Please don’t leave leftovers without an agreement.

At Houens Odde you prepare your own food – and do the grocery shopping yourself. In Denmark, traditional scout cooking is done on the bonfire.

At your camp site you will find above ground firepits to use for your fire. Firewood is included in the camp fee, but we ask that you keep the environment in mind and try not to use too much firewood. Firewood reducing stoves are more than welcome and if you don’t have one yourselves, the camp staff will be happy to lend you one.

You are also welcome to use gas for cooking. 
Houens Odde Scout Centre does not provide gas stoves.

And the dishes? That’s done at the camp site too.

We have two woodfired mobile pizza ovens available to borrow and be placed at your camp site. They tend to be very popular so please expect to only be able to have then on loan for one day during a week.

We do have some cooking equipment for rental, if needed.
 Read more on Rentals.

You will find drinking water taps around the forest and at the shower- and toilet buildings. Here you can fill a water container to take to your camp site.

There are no electricity at the camp sites.

You can charge your mobile devices at the centre building ‘Skoven’. The staff will let you know how and where when you arrive.

We do not yet offer charging of electric cars at Houens Odde.

At Houens Odde International Scout Center we have a few but very important rules that we ask you to follow:

• At Houens Odde Scout Center we are aware of nature conservation. We want our visitors to protect the vegetation, especially new plants, slopes and the bark of the trees.
• Don’t throw paper or other garbage.
• Digging in the forest at Houens Odde is not allowed as the soil in the forest is vulnerable.
• Think about your neighbours. We don’t want scouts or leaders to enter other campsites unless the leaders have made an appointment about it. Only walk on roads and paths.
• All campsites and the forest must be kept quiet between 11 PM and 7 AM.
• Driving with private cars must be limited and driving is only allowed on the road along the coast, not in the forest.
• Parking is only allowed in the marked parking lots. Caravans and mobile homes are not allowed at the campsites in the forest.
• Due to the wildlife in the forest dogs should not be brought to the camp – visiting dogs have to be kept on a leash.
• Everybody has to wear a life vest during all kinds of activities on water and on the boat bridge. Only swimming can take place without a life vest and can only take place at the rafting site.
• Kidholmene is the two small islands in the fjord near Houens Odde and can only be visited from 15^th of July to 1^st of April (outside the breeding season for the birds living there). Not more than eight persons at a time may visit the islands and you may only go there when the center staff agrees.