These directions assume that you are traveling from New Orleans.
Travel East on Interstate 10 from Slidell approximately 20.2 miles from the intersection of I-10 and I-59 and exit at Mississippi Exit # 13. Then proceed North on Mississippi Highway 603 approximately 14.6 miles. This will place you 1.0 mile past the Victory Baptist Church where you will turn right onto Standard Dedeaux Rd. You will see a Salmen Scout Reservation Sign. From this turn "when going to Camp - Stay Left" you will proceed approximately 2.1 miles passing the "Halfway Grocery" and come to a fork in the road with a Brick house near this fork. Turn Left and proceed approximately 1.7 miles to a 3 way stop sign again stay left and proceed 0.5 miles to the Entrance of Salmen Scout Reservation which will be on your left.
The
map for these directions is available by clicking below, be forewarned
that it may take a small amount of time to load these graphics
for the maps. Please use your Back button of your browser
to return to this directions page. Hit your back button of your
browser a second time to return to the Troop or Council Website
that connected you to this Council Camp Directions page.
An Adobe Acrobat copy of this map is provided so that you may print this image. Please click on the link below to access the Map to Salmen Scout Reservation
Map to Salmen Scout Reservation (Camp V-bar) in Adobe Acrobat Format(262KB)
The
link below is for the map of the premises of Salmen Scout Reservation.
This map is under revision due to the ongoing camp improvements.
Please use your Back button of your browser to return to
this directions page. Hit your back button of your browser a second
time to return to the Troop or Council Website that connected
you to this Council Camp Directions page.
An Adobe Acrobat copy of this map is provided so that you may print this image. Please click on the link below to access the Salmen Scout Reservation (Camp V-bar) Map.
ORIENTEERING MAPS
The following links are to maps that can be used for orienteering purposes. We extend apologies as these are a work in progress. They are a combination of data from the Mississippi Automated Resource Information System site. The projection of these maps is in MSTM. There are red lines drawn to indicate Magnetic North as of JULY 2003. The maps are in PDF format. To maintain the scale of 1"=1000' be sure to print the PDF file with no scaling set, i.e., print with the "Fit to page" box NOT checked. These files are extremely large, but maintain image resolution of the original data. The files have been zipped to shorten download times. Your steps for using these files should be
Download the files by right clicking and save target as
Unzip or extract the pdf file
Print the file and be sure to have the option of "Fit to Page", NOT checked.
| FILE (SIZE) | DESCRIPTION |
| doqq.zip (2.76 MB) | This has a PDF file which contains the Digital Ortho Quarter Quad image with the S2R map and Magnetic North lines (in red) super imposed on the image. |
| topo.zip (3.47 MB) | This has a PDF file which contains the Topographic Quad issued by the USGS with the S2R map and Magnetic North lines (in red) super imposed on the image. |
| topo-s2r.zip (3.37 MB) | This has a PDF file which contains the Topographic Quad issued by the USGS with Magnetic North lines (in red) super imposed on the image. |
| 3089e3.jpg (3.18 MB) | This is a JPG file of the "Sellers" Quad Sheet which covers the area of S2R. Each pixel represents 2.4384 Meters and is projected in MSTM |
For an aerial image use the following thumbnail (be patient the image is 377KB):
Maps updated March 2000