Clark's Fork is a backcountry camp at Philmont. Clark's is located at the north western base of Tooth of Time ridge, directly north of Shafer's Pass.

Clark's is one of three horse camps in the backcountry where participants can go on a trail ride. In addition to horseback riding, scouts can learn to rope a steer or brand with hot irons. For dinner, scouts get the rare opportunity for a home cooked meal called a chuck wagon dinner consisting of beef stew and Dutch oven biscuits. And at the end of every day, the staff puts on a cowboy campfire.

The camp itself is little more than a cabin in the middle of the woods. The Camp Director or CD (me) sleeps in the cabin on a small cot near the radio (our only real form of communication with Base). The 5-7 other staffers, called Program Counselors or PCs, sleep outside behind the cabin in large green wall tents. About 200 yards up a hill to the East, is the Wrangler Bunk House and Coral. The Head Wrangler and his 3-4 Wranglers live, work, and sleep up in the bunk house. The Wranglers are more experienced horse riders and are in charge of wrangling the horses in the morning, saddling the horses, care of the horse, and primarily taking out 2 trail rides per day. The average trail ride has 20-25 campers with 3 Wranglers supervising and lasts about 2 hours. While separate, the PCs and Wranglers eat all meals together and often times overlap in responsibilities. The latrine/outhouse sits about 20 yards behind the staff cabin. Imagine a hole in the ground with a plywood box on top - welcome to our bathroom. Another 50 yards beyond that is the shower house. Don't get an ideas of glory here. This is a wonderfully inviting open air concrete box with a few shower heads mounted on the walls. We use it sparingly 1. because we don't care if we smell and 2. because Philmont is typically under draught conditions during the summer months which means we practice strict water conservation.

Clark's is one of the largest backcountry camps with 10+ campsites on the Northern and Eastern sides of the cabin and another 10+ campsites in a meadow about a quarter mile up the hill due West of the camp. A typical night at Clarks sees 70 campers. A busy night sees 150.