Water and Woods Field Service Council

The Council was headquartered in Flint, Michigan, with service centers located in Auburn, Lansing, and Port Huron.

The Organization of the Boy Scouts of America councils in Area 2 of the Central Region is unique to Michigan.

MCC is then split into four field service councils which handle the day-to-day aspects of Scouting and have their own professional staff serving local units.

These include a chapel, health lodge, Order of the Arrow Trading Post, Nature Center, and most recently, a new Training and Activities Building.

The tree has since been cut down, but remains on display at camp as a testament to Silver Trail’s rich history.

The Michigan Crossroads Council listed the camp for sale in 2019 [6] and eventually sold the property in September 2021.

Camp Rotary has heated cabins, a full service dining hall and an outdoor education center that can be used as a classroom for Schools, Civic Groups, or Business.

Camp Grayling, a United States National Guard installation, is also located 20 miles (32 km) to the south east.

The lake's deepest spot of 75 feet (23 m) allows for large walleye and bass while shallow sandbars, make for great fishing.

Camp Tapico has 17 wilderness campsites, which Scout troops, Venturing crews and other groups can rent.

Scouts also earned merit badges like Archery, Rifle Shooting, Canoeing, Climbing, and Wilderness Survival.

Camp Kiwanis located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Mason, Michigan, on M-36 at Diamond Road.

Once every four years, contingents of Scouts, both all-boys and mixed boys and girls, from over 20 countries all around the world, gather at Northwoods for 8 days of international friendship and fellowship at the Chief Okemos Council’s Michigan International Camporee, the largest council-run multinational Scouting event in North America.

[10] The original council camp was located along North River Road in Clyde Township, Michigan.

The Council also operated Camp Loyalty for a short time in the 1930s, which was located south of Port Sanilac, Michigan.

In 1942, the family of Crowswell Businessman Philip Graham donated property along the Black River in Sanilac County to Blue Water Council.

The property was known as "Camp Chickagami", named after the Council's Order of the Arrow lodge that was established just one year earlier.

Camp Chickagami was located 2 miles north of Croswell, Michigan, and is now a county park by the name of "P.L.

In 1948, the council's camp moved downriver to the current Silver Trails Scout Reservation in Jeddo, Michigan.

The Black River Basin District served units numbered in the 100s and 300s in the City of Port Huron, Northern St. Clair, and all of Sanilac County.

The Three Rivers District served units numbered in the 200s which included downriver communities in Southern St. Clair County.

Pleasant, Clare, Harrison, Gladwin, Standish, Caro, Alpena, Oscoda, Grayling, Houghton Lake, Alma, Ithaca, West Branch and Rose City, as well as many other smaller towns.

Summer Trails initially served communities from Bay City into the Thumb and northward on the east and central parts of the state up to the Straits of Mackinaw.

Valley Trails included Saginaw, Gratiot, Isabella, Clare and part of Tuscola counties.

The council was initially organized into nine districts: Shoreline, Arrowhead, White Pine, Pioneer Trails, Thumb, Tomahawk, Chippewa, Au Sable, and Thunderhead.

264 was a local council of the Boy Scouts of America which served counties of Lapeer, Genesee, and Shiawassee in the Flint, Michigan, area.

The Order of the Arrow is a youth-lead honor society of Scouts who provide service to their local camps and communities.

Agaming Maangogwan Lodge will be the host for the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) at Michigan State University.

This Order of the Arrow lodge was divided into four chapters, each correlating to their respective districts in Tall Pine Council.

These chapters include Chippewa (North Star), Bidaban (New Horizons), Muscadawin (Blue Heron), and Wassa (Shiawassee).

BSA Councils in Michigan. The Water and Woods FSC serves scouts in eastern and central Michigan.
BSA Councils in Michigan prior to the Area 2 project and the Michigan Crossroads Council.