The council is divided into districts: The San Jose Council of the Boy Scouts of America was founded on August 20, 1920 by John Crummey (president of Bean Spray and Pump Company, later known as Food Machinery Corporation), Robert Bentley, Jr. (president of Muirson Label Company) and Archer Bowden (San Jose attorney).

[1] The council grew and was given the land for Camp Pico Blanco in 1948 by William Randolph Hearst.

The Santa Clara Council had successfully balanced its budget from 2002 to 2012 and had attracted new membership every month for nearly four years.

[3] The Monterey Bay Area Council was on “conditional charters” during 2010 and 2011 and was given specific goals to balance its budget and increase its membership.

The announcement attributed the merger in large part to more than a million dollars in debt accumulated by the Monterey Bay Area Council.

[4] Expenses included the construction of a fish ladder and a new dining lodge at Camp Pico Blanco.

[4] Camp Hi-Sierra is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, minutes from the small town of Long Barn, California.

Camp Hi-Sierra was created in 1949 with land that the Santa Clara County Council bought within the Stanislaus National Forest.

Buildings at Camp Hi-Sierra include a staff bunkhouse, dining hall, office, and other structures.

Also, this side contains the camp office, health lodge, dining hall, flag meadow, and the ranger's home.

Further south is the high adventure area; this includes the bike barn and rock climbing tower.

On this fenced-in property, there is a tipi for Indian lore classes and a blacksmith shop with a coal forge and three anvils.

This is home of the Mountain Man program, where scouts can learn blacksmithing, woodcarving, and tomahawk throwing.

Chesebrough Scout Reservation, also called Camp Chesebrough is a 544 acres (220 ha) Boy Scouts of America camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties, California.

Chesebrough Scout Reservation straddles the Santa Cruz-San Mateo county border, and is located 9 miles (14 km) south of Saratoga on California State Route 9, and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of that road's intersection with California State Route 35, or Skyline Boulevard at Saratoga Gap.

The Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail passes through the camp about 5 miles (8.0 km) from its Skyline terminus, in Castle Rock State Park.

In addition, the camp has a large modern kitchen, a 300-seat campfire amphitheater, BB gun and archery ranges, and 32 miles (51 km) of hiking trails.

The camp is surrounded by the Los Padres National Forest, the Ventana Wilderness, undeveloped private land owned by Graniterock, and is located near the Little Sur River.