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Part of the Chattahoochee Council Scout Reservation. Situated on West Point Lake, the camp is 600 acres with 26 miles of lake shore. Camp James G. Gallant: Chattahoochee Council: LaGrange, GA: Active: Dedicated in April 1983. Part of the Chattahoochee Council Scout Reservation. It consists of over 300 acres with 28 campsites. Robert E. Knox ...
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
The council operates two camps: Goose Pond Scout Reservation and Camp Acahela. Since its founding the council has conducted a biennial Traveling Camporee that takes Scouts to camp at locations that rotate among Williamsburg, Virginia, Baltimore Maryland, Boston, Massachusetts, Niagara Falls, New York, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [citation needed]
The fourth part is devoted to a model junior leaders’ conference, and projects in nature lore, special Scoutcraft skills, emergency service, and personal and group service.” In 1952 at Philmont Scout Ranch 270 participants and at Schiff Scout Reservation 436 participants completed junior leader training camps.
The Horseshoe Scout Reservation is a Boy Scouts of America camp, owned by the Chester County Council, and located on the Mason-Dixon line separating Pennsylvania and Maryland. The name of the camp derives from the Octoraro Creek , a tributary of the Susquehanna River , that makes a meandering 4-mile horseshoe through the property.
The new Scouts are kept together as a group, elect their own patrol leader, and are assigned a troop guide—an older Scout who acts as a mentor. [29] Some troops may have an older Scout patrol that experiences more autonomy from the troop and provides older Scouts with expanded social contact and physical challenges.
Scouts BSA Handbook is the official handbook of Scouts BSA, published by the Boy Scouts of America. It is a descendant publication of Baden-Powell 's original handbook, Scouting for Boys , which has been the basis for Scout handbooks in many countries, with some variations to the text of the book depending on each country's codes and customs.
The Robert S. Lyle Scout Reservation was a 640 acres (2.6 km 2) wilderness Boy Scout Camp. The reservation, located 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Antigo , Wisconsin, encompassed two lakes, Aninnan and Perch, and had the Wolf River running through it ( 45°24′34″N 89°03′48″W / 45.409307°N 89.0633413°W / 45.409307; -89.0633413