'The Pines' Scout Camp, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006 - The cover image shows the entrance gates and archway erected in 1964.
The Pines Scout Camp, comprising the entrance gates and archway erected in 1964, Aleppo and Stone Pines and other mature trees and associated land comprising the original crown reserve at Altona Road, Altona.
The Pines Scout Camp is of local historic, aesthetic and scientific (horticultural) significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.
A 1960s wrought iron gateway marks the entry to the site. The gates include two central columns supporting an archway above the road and two simple gates. The arch is adorned by the name of the camp, with the word "Pines" centrally located in cursive script flanked by "scout camp" in lower capitals in a faded green. The two central columns are flanked by lower columns connected by angled fences. Each column is surmounted by the scouting emblem in metal relief. What is presumably the original colour scheme survives: A soft yellow to the word "Pines", the two innermost column emblems, and the two outer columns, and a soft green for the other elements, with the exception of the gates and fence which are painted white.
The gates lead to a winding gravelled road lined by painted rocks introduced by the scouts and groups of Aleppo and Stone pines ('Pinus halepensis' and 'Pinus pinea'), which also occur on all boundaries of the site, having probably once formed a triangle. There are also Eucalypts and Monterey cypress which may have been introduced around or after World War 2.
West of the entrance is a section of what appears to be stone pitched roadway with a dressed kerb on its eastern side, which may be associated with the use of the site during the nineteenth century by Dowling and Fisher.