Facilities & Activities Map
Facilities for Leadership Training & Team Building Activities
Camp Liahona Youth Activity Centre is designed to support activities that build leadership, team spirit, and positive personal relationships. These Activities usually require teams to communicate, often under time pressure, and to cooperate so that tasks can be completed. Verbal skills are more important than physical skills and innovative thinking is a must for some activities.
Below is a map of the camp tagged with codes indicating the location of both facilities (yellow) and activities (green). For ease of use, the table below the map lists the meanings of the codes in both geographic (as they appear on the map) and alphabetic order.
In the table of Facilities and Activities below this map, you can click on a Facility or an Activity to get a brief description. Or, you may find it more convenient to just read down through the page below the map.
Other Local Facilities
There are other sites that may be of interest to you. One of England's finest ropes courses is in the Thetford Forest just 10 miles from Camp Liahona, You can read about it here.
Facilities and Activities Table
Facilities (Yellow letters on the map)
Boat Dock BD
A small boat dock provides an ideal area from which to launch the kayaks or other small water craft. No motorized craft are allowed in the lake. Seven kayaks, paddles, and life jackets are available. A leader with a valid Life Saving Certificate must at all times be with any youth using the lake.
Boat Shed BS
A 13 metre long storage container near the boat dock serves as the Boat Shed where all the activities equipment is stored as well as the rowing boat and the kayaks.
Bunk Houses BH
There are four cabins. The former First Aid Hut has been remodeled to sleep 6 people. There are three new cabins that sleep 8 to 10 people. These have 8 bunks each: four long narrow bunks 760 x 2000mm (30" x 79"), two shorter narrow bunks 760 x 1800mm (30" x 71") and two wide bunks 1000 x 1800mm (42" x 71"). All four cabins have a covered veranda across the entire front. A fourth, new, 8 - 10 bunk cabin will be added by summer 2010.
Camp Boundary CB
The camp is completely surrounded by producing farm fields and this boundary is to be treated with respect. No activities of any kind can be undertaken outside these boundaries without explicit permission of the farmers. Camp Liahona exists because the farm upon which it is situated set it apart originally as a Youth Activity Centre. Local landowners, farmers and the Countryside Commission are sympathetic and helpful towards the Camp, and we are all keen to maintain our good relationship with them.
Trails (farm roads) can be used for handcart treks with permission which can be obtained from the Camp Directors. Click the "Handcart Treks" link in the navigation bar at the left for more details.
Car Parking CP
Parking for about 40 cars is situated just West of the camp’s Entrance Gate. Motorized vehicles are not usually allowed on the camp due to the softness of the soil. Handcarts are available for transporting items to and from the parking area. The Camp Directors have a small trailer towed by the grass mower which they can use to assist with heavy items if necessary.
Commissary or Stores Co
There are shelves here for food storage. The refrigerators and freezers are here also.
Entrance Gate and Handcart Parking EG
There is a small, open area next to the Entrance Gate where handcarts can be stowed like grocery trolleys. It will be the Responsible Leader’s responsibility to assure that the handcarts are secured at all times. A small chain is threaded through the wheels and padlocked to the fence to do this.
First Aid Hut FA
The former First Aid Hut has been remodeled to sleep 6 people and is now usually referred to as the leaders cabin because it is the only one with electric power (when the generator is running).
Farm Fields FF
The Camp is entirely surrounded by producing, private farm fields. No camp activities are allowed in these fields.
Fire Ring FR
No fires are allowed in Camp Liahona except in these three fire rings. The northern most one is a small ring with picnic table and smaller tent platforms for small group camping. The other two fire rings are large ones, located on opposite sides of the camp surrounded by flat areas suitable for portable seating. Both areas are surrounded by trees. The soil here is peat which can actually take light and smoulder for days and is nearly impossible to extinguish. The fire rings were deliberately constructed on a good layer of concrete to prevent this. Fire wood is available in the fire wood bins next to the fire rings. If the bin is empty, stacked firewood may be found in the woods. Campers are not allowed to cut fire wood except as part of a Fire Wood Service Project.
Kitchen & Main Pavilion Ki
The camp is equipped with a covered cooking and eating area which contains up to four propane stoves (2 burners each — propane provided), two propane barbecues and three sinks with hot and cold running water mounted in work tops for food preparation and washing up. There are three sets of shelves for packaged food in the kitchen and more shelves in the commissary (stores) next to the kitchen.
Two home-sized refrigerators and a freezer are housed in the kitchen area. You must bring all cooking utensils and equipment required to cook and serve your food, and clean up afterwards including dish soap and dish cloths. The camp provides cleaning supplies, including rags, sprays, brooms and mops.
The covered kitchen pavilion includes a deck which seats about 120 people on chairs. There are enough folding banquet tables to seat about 100.
Second Pavilion (not shown on map above)
The second pavilion, located a hundred meters west of the kitchen pavilion is currently just a cover over open grass. There are enough chairs to seat 60 people here.
Restrooms & Showers RS
There are 4 flush toilets and sinks and 5 private warm showers for the majority gender in camp, and one toilet and sink for the minority gender.
Sacred Grove SG
A grove of oaks shelters a secluded meditation and teaching area, about 30 meters North of the West fire ring.
Tent Sites TS
The light colored squares on the above satellite photo map, are the 9 tent platforms that had tents on them when the photo was taken. There are 14 tent platforms, each one is 14 feet square. Army tents sleeping up to 8 youth are erected on the platforms during the main camping season, from mid July to the end of August. At other times, patrons must bring their own tents or be prepared with a few strong people to set up one of these awkward, heavy tents. Campers should bring their own pads and sleeping bags.
Zip Slide ZS
The zip slide is no longer available.
Flag Poles (not shown on map above)
The camp is designed to accommodate two large groups simultaneously, with two separate fire rings and flagpoles on opposite sides of the camp.
Activities (Green letters on the map)
First Go 1G
This is a leadership skill, team building exercise puzzle wherein 19 litres of water must be moved across an imaginary chasm.
Second Go 2G
This is a timed leadership skill, team building exercise puzzle wherein the team and a container of water must be moved across an imaginary chasm.
Agility Course AC
This is a leadership and team building coordination exercise wherein the team has to pass through an obstacle course which cannot be done without team effort.
Archery Ar
This is an archery range. Bows and arrows are available.
Big Foot BF
This is a team building coordination exercise wherein four "skiers" are strapped to a single pair of skis and "slalom" to a finish line.
Container Shift CS
This is a leadership skill, team building puzzle wherein four water containers are exchanged with four other water containers by shuffling them one at a time through a simple maze.
Exercise Discs ED
This is a leadership skill, team building exercise puzzle wherein five discs are moved from one pin to another via a middle pin as needed so as to place the discs in the opposite order as they were at first.
Fishing Fi (not shown on map above)
Fishing season is open year round. Only a Rod License is required. Swimming, boating and fishing do not mix and boating and swimming have priority. It is a small lake. No fishing when there is a water craft or person in the water. 
Foot Ball FB
A foot ball field with goals is available on the main green. Balls are available in the Boat Shed.
Handcart Treks and Hiking HH (not shown on map above)
We have 10 handcarts and country bridle paths, riverside paths, and farm roads to pull them over. Camp Liahona and the 2,500 acre farm on which the Camp is sited provide many opportunities for treks including an overnight spot at a duck pond several miles from Camp Liahona.
Hot Line HL
This is a leadership skill, team building and individual organisation and planning challenge where a planning and organisation period precedes the movement of a team and a barrel over an imaginary chasm with a "high voltage" wire running parallel to and above the surrounding terrain.
Holey Tube HT
This is a team building exercise puzzle where a ping pong ball must be floated to the top of a vertical pipe with many holes in it.
Primitive Camping PC
Primitive Camping (your own shelter, no tables, no fire ring, no water, no facilities except use of camp toilets) can be done in those areas designated for this purpose. If you have a primitive camping reservation, you will be assigned to one of these areas.
Power Lift PL
This is a timed, team coordination exercise where the team must raise a weight to a predetermined height as many times as possible.
Raft Building RB
This is an intense leadership development and team building experience that requires careful planning and construction skill.
Service Projects SP (not shown on map above)
There are many service projects just waiting to be done. Click on the Service Opportunities link in the navigation bar or here.
Steeple Chase SC
This is a timed, team coordination exercise where the team must move themselves and a 40 gallon drum over three hurdles and only touch a few moveable wooden "stepping stones".
Spider Web SW
This is a leadership, planning and team coordination exercise where the team must move through a spider web using any opening only once and without touching the web. Some people will have to be bodily passed through by their team members.
Volleyball Vb
A net and balls are available. The net is usually set up on the garden south of the lake.
Walk on Water WW
This is a large (approximately 4 x 10 metres) heavy plastic sheet that "floats" on the lake. You can trot out to the edge and back and only get wet a little above the ankles. People love to run and slide into the lake on it. It is a very popular water activity.
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