Units
Camp Ondessonk's original units.
What are Goupil, Brebeuf, Chabanel, and Lalande?
Former Camping Services Director and current Director of Touch of Nature Outdoor Education Center.
Who is Brian Croft?
Camp Ondessonk's first swimming area.
What is Blue Pool?
The location of Crescent Falls.
What is Phantom’s Canyon?
This East St. Louis Parish created the summer camp that would ultimately become Camp Ondessonk.
What is St. Philip Parish?
The first unit to use a teepee in addition to its other cabins.
What is Chabanel?
This 2026 unit leader drafted the initial conceptual drawings of the new Raganeau cabins.
Who is Josh Daly?
The activity area formerly located directly across Lake Echon from the current unit of Daniel.
What is Boating and Canoeing (or Fishing)?
Early in Camp’s history, Lodge sashes were distributed to new members in this holy place.
What is Cathedral of St. Peter in Belleville (AKA “Cathedral”)?
This multiple of five was the camper fee for a week-long session in 1959, Camp Ondessonk’s first summer.
What is fifteen?
The primitive units of the 1960s were in these two iconic places.
What is Pine Lake and Pakentuck?
This former Stable Director and casualty of the Vietnam War was memorialized with a suspension bridge.
Who is Larry Garner?
A song originating at Camp Pakentuck that is sung multiple times daily at Camp Ondessonk.
What is “O’ We are the Campers of Ondessonk?
The first permanent Trading Post was housed in this building.
What is the Original Administration Building (AKA Staff Lounge)?
The bridge that replaced a hand-pulled ferry.
What is the Amantacha bridge?
One cabin in this unit is currently named after a Beatles song. The remainder are named after Pink Floyd songs.
What is Raganeau?
This former unit leader was the first to call her campers “Rag Rats”.
Who is Michelle Bretscher?
This marathon assignment once required the best horseback rider from each unit.
What is Pony Express?
The location of Camp’s original Turtle Pond.
What is the Original Administration Building?
During Summer Camp in 1959 and 1960, this large obstruction was in the middle of the Ondessonk Road (AKA, the Camp Road).
What is a Tree?
This unit's symbol (or spirit animal) was a rabbit.
What is Ahatsistari?
Camp Ondessonk’s first historian.
Who is Myra Henry?
The river navigated during the first Canoeing Specialty Camp (a program later known as Canoeing Adventure).
What is the Wabash River?
The names of the two creeks that join near Hogg Bluff at Kentucky Point.
What are Ozark Creek and East Branch of Cedar Creek?
The name for Cedar Falls when it was Camp Pakentuck property in 1933.
What is Lawrence Falls?