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The new council, "Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles", is a merger on December 1, 2008 of Angeles Girl Scout Council, Girl Scout Council of Greater Long Beach, Joshua Tree Council (southeastern portion), Mt. Wilson Vista Council, Spanish Trails Council, and San Fernando Valley Girl Scout Council.
The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
California incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) in the San Jacinto Mountains.Camp Joe Scherman (often abbreviated Camp Scherman) is a 700-acre (2.8 km 2) camping and recreation facility owned and operated by the Girl Scout Council of Orange County (GSCOC) located off the Pines to Palms Highway in Riverside County in Southern California.
Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys; Girl Scouts of Moccasin Bend Council; Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming; Girl Scouts of Nassau County; Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails; Girl Scouts of North East Ohio; Girl Scouts of North-Central Alabama; Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri; Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
Josephine and Frank Duveneck opened Hidden Villa, California's first youth hostel in 1937 in a rural setting with hiking trails 35 miles (56 km) south of San Francisco. [5] In 1947 a preaching Quaker minister, Leslie "Barry" Barret and his wife, Winnifred, turned a rundown New England farm into a rustic retreat center and youth hostel and ...
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
The elevation of the trail ranges from 6,050 to 9,850 feet (1,840 to 3,000 m). The trail is open from July to October and is very popular with Boy Scouts. [5] [6] There are several intersecting and side trails that provide many options varying the exact length and path of a hike, backpacking, or camping excursion.