The Associated Press reported that a key factor for the merger was the availability of the large Blue Ridge Scout Reservation and the Piedmont Council's sale of its old Camp Monocan for $190,000.

In a Council-wide event, Scouts gathered to re-enact Gen. Nathanael Greene's retreat across the Dan River during the Revolutionary War.

The Danville Register & Bee said the 3-day re-enactment was performed "with surprising detail" in depicting the Continental Army's successful crossing of the river in February, 1781, "to escape the Redcoats of Lord Charles Cornwallis".

[5] In 2015, the council was required by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation to rebuild a dam and spillway on a lake at its Camp Powhatan.

[6] Working with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Pulaski County, Appalachian Power, and the Friends of Claytor Lake, the council had approximately 400 tons (400,000 kg) of concrete debris removed to nearby Claytor Lake for improved fish habitat at the 4,472-acre (1,810 ha) reservoir.

This led to the sale of the Claytor Lake Aquatics Base for $2.7 million to real estate firm Shah Development in May 2024.[7].

[citation needed] BRMC is divided into six districts: The Blue Ridge Council's original Camp Powhatan was located between Lexington, Virginia, and Roanoke near Natural Bridge and the Jefferson National Forest.

[8] In the 1920s–1930s, the council made the property available to Washington and Lee University for an unusual freshman orientation program.

[1] After the Civil War's Battle of Cloyd's Mountain near Radford, Virginia, the Union Army pushed farther south.

Radford College chose to sell the land in order to fund a concert organ for its music program.

The Blue Ridge Mountains Council (Roy Webb, a local of Pulaski, also put in bids for land, and got a little over 300 acres in the sale, including the Iron Furnace, a hiking trail that Mr Webb cut out was named after him, it runs off Dead Pine Mnt) put in the successful bid of $56,100 and acquired the 15,000-acre (61 km2) tract, plus two farms with 216-acre (0.87 km2) combined.

[citation needed] In 1949, the Blue Ridge Council established a camp on 400 acres (1.6 km2) on Maxs Creek in Pulaski County.

After occupying a site leased by the Appalachian Power Company for over 10 years, the Claytor Lake Aquatics Base was established in the summer of 2008.

[12] In 2000, visiting Boy Scouts from Pennsylvania set a record for the trail at the time, hiking 68 miles (100 km) in five days.

The program includes the BSA's COPE ("Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience") activities, such as ropes courses, natural rock climbing, spelunking in the area's limestone caves, and mountaineering.

[citation needed] Mountaineer is a provisional program located in the Laurel Hollow on the Blue Ridge Scout Reservation.

Scouts dress in period clothing and participate in shooting muzzle-loading black-powder rifles, building fires using flint and steel, blacksmithing, leather working, throwing tomahawks and knives, cooking, and wilderness survival.

Participants learn the essential skills of Scouting, and complete many of the requirements for Tenderfoot through First Class through interactive lessons, daily competitions, and a hike.