Scouting in Virginia has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs that suit the environment in which they live.

Many of the local groups and districts took names of historic Virginia Indian tribes in the state.

William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America at 11:03 am on February 8, 1910, in Washington, D.C., on the advice of railroad executive and later first national president of the organization Colin H. Livingstone, with assistance from lawyers at the firm Ralston, Siddons and Richardson.

[4] The oldest unit in the council is Troop 52, out of All Saints Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase.

[5] When the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia decided that the security of suffrage marchers in 1916 was not their problem, Troop 52 Scouts marched alongside the women.

[6]: 30 The Blue Ridge Mountains Council (BRMC) serves Scouts in southwest and south central Virginia.

Del-Mar-Va Council serves Scouts in Delaware, Maryland and Northampton and Accomack Counties in Virginia.

The council offers training and support to units in 24 counties in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of the state, an area spanning 8,143 square miles.

Each district represents distinct Scouting communities that serve youth, families, and units within its region.

Districts: The National Capital Area Council (NCAC) within the Northeast Region that serves Scouts in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and the United States Virgin Islands.

[14] Camper family members are invited to visit the camp on Friday nights for dinner; a Scout-performed campfire program with skits, songs, and jokes; then an Order of the Arrow Callout Ceremony.

[15]: 10  Each Sunday evening at the camp chapel a short non-denominational service called Vespers is held.

[11]: 2  The camp includes 14 campsites that accommodate from 16 to 56 campers in tents or Adirondack shelters as well as a dining hall that can serve 450 at a time.

It supports the Scouting programs of the Stonewall Jackson Area Council through leadership, camping, and service.

Scouting amongst the black community in Virginia in the years immediately after the incorporation of the BSA in 1910 has been an under-explored topic.

While Scouting certainly helped to promote character development and citizenship in the lives of millions of mostly white youth in the decades before World War II, its impact in the black community is much less understood and poorly documented.

A detailed exposition of the role of blacks in the early history of Boy Scouting across a large swath of Virginia has been presented in an online essay[21] There are seven Girl Scout councils serving girls in Virginia; three are headquartered in the state.

[23]: 54 That kind of consolidation continued in 1963 when the new Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital was formed from the National Capital, Southern Maryland, Alexandria, Arlington, and Northern Virginia councils, as well as including a single troop from Prince William, another in Fauquier, and one in Loudoun.

nearest Service Center: Johnson City, Tennessee See Girl Scouting in West Virginia.