BEAR CREEK CAMP RULES

  • Our goal is to create an intentional summer community of like-minded outdoor guides who care about the earth, recycling, and healthy living. Some of the rules below are created to help keep the camp running efficiently. Others are about keeping everyone safe.
  • If you have any virus symptoms, please self-isolate and contact the local SEARHC clinic for Covid testing, 766-6300.  There is a Narcan kit located on the shelf to the right as you enter the kitchen, just in case some partier needs it. Please familiarize yourself with it.
  • No firearms are allowed on the property, or in vehicles parked on the property.
  • Clean up kitchen, dirty dishes, stove and countertops after each use.  Clean up after your guests as well.  Try to keep your own foods labeled for others to identify (tape and marker near fridge). If you want to share, there is a “Communal” basket in the big fridge.
  • All food scraps shall be composted using buckets provided to empty into garden compost pile.  Remove stickers from fruits and veggies.  Meat, fish, and crab scraps should be placed in buckets in freezer.  Please rinse all food containers, whether garbage or recycle.  Garbage is removed weekly.  Do not leave food items in cabins or picnic areas.  There are often bears in the area.
  • A rotating schedule of weekly kitchen and bathhouse chores will be posted inside the kitchen to be done at your leisure during your week.  The minimum chore list is posted in the kitchen.  When you have done your chores, simply erase your name to let others know you have completed them.  If you are planning to be out of town your week, find someone to change weeks with you and mark the board accordingly.  Vacuum is kept in the kitchen. Please return it promptly if used to clean your cabin.
  • Recycle and separate all clean glass, #1, #2, and #5 plastics (all caps go in the garbage), rinsed aluminum, tin cans with paper removed, white paper and newspaper (can be burned) and corrugated cardboard.  (Shiny paper is garbage.)  
  • Cotton dish and hand towels are provided in the kitchen and bath houses and changed regularly.  Cleaning rags as well.  I find paper towels wasteful, but you are welcome to purchase them.  Any provided are for cleaning or oiling the cast iron.
  • To maintain cat iron, wipe away excess oil with paper towel.  When needed scrub with water only, no soap, dry on the heat, and oil lightly EVERY time with rag while hot.  Cast iron will stay nice forever if done after each use.
  • Dish soap, doTerra hand soap (do not put dish soap in this plunger), sponges, and other kitchen cleaning products are provided below the counter to the right of the stove.  If in short supply, let caretaker know.
  • Feel free to use the kitchen library.  If you take books to your cabin, please be sure to return them.  You can keep magazines.
  • Turn off all cabin heaters when leaving the property.  If it is really cold out, the bathroom and kitchen heaters may be left on low.  Otherwise turn them on as needed, before your shower, then off for the day.  If these spaces are quite warm, or it is late, please turn the heaters off.  They can be put back on in the morning.  These propane heaters are “old-style” and do not have outside venting.  When using your heater, please keep a window cracked open a little for fresh air.  Consider turning the heater off for the night, using an extra blanket instead.
  • All cabins have carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, and fire extinguishers.  No smoking inside any of the buildings.  Use your own deck, or smoke under the covered areas attached to the cook house.  While smoking and moderate drinking are allowed, we will ask you to seek other housing if you are an excessive drinker or you are one to indulge in harder drugs.
  • The laundry room is not for personal use.  Please use laundromat in town.  There is a clothes drying rack in the kitchen.  It may be used in your cabin, on your deck, or under covered public areas.
  • In bathrooms, put ALL paper products in waste receptacles, including toilet paper.  Do not put anything down the drains.  We are on a septic system and it works better without any paper or chemicals.  Please keep hot showers to a reasonable length of time.  Saving on fuel helps the environment, and could avert higher rents in the future.  Personal toiletries are your responsibility, but feel free to use the “hotel samples” by the sinks.  We can loan you a couple of bath towels for the summer.  The bathrooms will be cleaned regularly by residents taking turns.  Minimum chore list is posted in the kitchen.
  • Your overnight guests staying more than two nights should register with owner or caretaker, and expect to pay $5/day to cover showers, utilities, and use of one clean towel if needed.  Only residents and registered overnight guests may use the showers.  Do not offer showers to random friends or co-workers.  Your registered guest may pitch a tent behind your cabin.  If your guest makes a mess, it is your responsibility to clean it up.  No guest shall stay more than two weeks without special arrangements.  Please give the Wi-fi password to paying guests only, not daily visitors.  Sometimes Cabin 1 is available for a fee.
  • Quiet time after 11pm or after 10pm if it is dark by then.
  • We have a burn permit.  Call in tp the local fire/police dispatch (907) 766-2121 EACH time you make a campfire.  If there is a burn ban they will tell you.  If you started the campfire, please put it out completely before retiring.  Water spigot is on the kitchen deck nearby.  Firewood on the porch of the main cabin and behind Cabin Two are not available for camp residents.  Please collect your own.  The beach at the junction of Small Tracts and Mud Bay Road always has lots of driftwood.
  • Badminton rackets are in the bag on the back wall of cabin six.  Bocce balls and horseshoes are on the deck of the kitchen shack.  Golf clubs and possibly a bicycle are available to loan.  Hammock can be moved to suit yourself.
  • Abby dog lives on the property in the front house. She is friendly and likes attention, but do not take her into your cabin. No other pets allowed without special permission.
  • No driving on the lawns to the cabins. All parking will be in the lower lot. Do not block garage door.
  • Rents are due on time.  Failure to be timely could result in eviction. Consistent failure to clean up after yourself in the kitchen could have the same result.  If you need to move out early, a two week notice will insure a refund of any unused rents. Damage will be assessed and that deposit, if collected, returned as well.  Do not leave ANY of your personal belongings when you depart for the season.  If you have large, heavy, or useful items, please use the Salvation Army, the consignment stores, or the self-haul dump a the end of FAA Road.
  • Please report any problems, damage, or inadequacies to Donna at (907) 766-2707 or (907) 314-3019.
  • Thank you for being a part of the Bear Creek Camp community!  We hope you have a great summer!