Scouting in Arizona has a history starting from the 1910s to the present day, serving youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

[2] Burnham served as the Honorary President of the Arizona Boy Scouts throughout the 1940s until his death in 1947.

[1] The first two Boy Scout troops in Arizona Territory were organized in Prescott, in September 1910 and in Tombstone at almost the same time.

[2] Arizona Territorial Historian Sharlot Hall was an honorary member of the Tombstone troop.

[3] On November 29, 1911 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) organized the MIA Scouts along the lines recommended by the Boy Scouts of America as part of their Mutual Improvement Association youth program.

[5] In March 1912, the LDS Church published their first lessons for the MIA Scouts in the Improvement Era.

On May 21, 1913, the LDS Church was invited by the Boy Scout National Council to become the first Chartered Sponsored Organization in their movement.

[10] The 1922 summer camp was at Pineair [11] (now call Reavis Ranch located in the Superstition Wilderness Area about 45 miles (72 km) east of Mesa).

Throughout the 1940s, Frederick Russell Burnham served as the Honorary President of the Roosevelt Council Boy Scouts.

In 1936, Boy Scouts in Arizona mounted a statewide campaign to save the Bighorn Sheep.

[13]Several other prominent Arizonans join the movement and a save the bighorns poster contest was started in schools throughout the state.

The contest-winning bighorn emblem was made up into neckerchief slides for the 10,000 Boy Scouts, and talks and dramatizations were given at school assemblies and on radio.

The National Wildlife Federation, the Izaak Walton League, and the Audubon Society also joined the effort.

The Desert Bighorn Sheep is now the official mascot for Arizona Boy Scouts.[which?

[26] The Great Southwest Council of the Boy Scouts of America is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and provides Scouting to youth in northern New Mexico, northeast Arizona, Utah south of the Colorado River, and the Durango and Mesa Verde areas of Colorado.

[29] Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona council serves more than 14,000 girls in Pima, Cochise, Greenlee, Yuma, and Santa Cruz counties and southern parts of Graham, Maricopa, and Pinal counties.