The timber company that owns the former Singing Hills Girl Scout camp between Oil City and Dempseytown has put the property up for sale.
“We have other properties to invest in,” said John Sabella, the co-owner of Sabella Land and Forest Products that bought the property from Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania in August 2017.
Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania had announced earlier in 2017 it was closing Singing Hills and four other camps in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and putting the properties up for sale.
The 210-acre property adjoins Two Mile Run County Park and includes multiple buildings and campsites.
Singing Hills has been around since the Girl Scouts purchased the property in 1949.
Though the whole property was not timbered, areas of the property near the campsites were timbered about three years ago, Sabella said.
“Now we are selling the camp as a whole. If it doesn’t sell we will look at breaking it up. I would like to see it sold as a whole,” Sabella said.
“We’re in no hurry. I’m hoping it goes to a good buyer,” said Sabella, who added the property is frequently vacant.
“We’re not utilizing the facilities very much. It’s vacant quite a bit. We’ve had groups come use the camp and we weren’t charging people to use it,” Sabella said.
The buildings on the property have been maintained and improvements to the camp have been completed, Sabella said.
Sabella added that a tree fell on the ranger house, so the roof and siding of the home were replaced.
He added that doing the work needed to keep up the camp is getting to be too much.
“It is pretty much as it was when it was a Girl Scout camp,” he said. “It was used quite a bit this summer, mostly by Christian groups and people who would ask to go camping there.”
The real estate agent, Brian Bullard with Timberland Realty of Falconer, New York, said Singing Hills is listed at $885,000.
