[2] Inner-city Scouts and Scouters in the Des Moines area were once part of the Two Rivers District.

The Mid Iowa Council also manages several properties including Camp Mitigwa, Grinnell Scoutland, and Strother's Lodge.

[4] In 1923, Anselm Frankel chaired the committee that, along with Scout Executive Fred G. Davie, found a site of 123 acres located seven miles north of Woodward; just an hour's ride by train or automobile from the city.

Fisher is a small man made lake which provides opportunities for canoeing, rowing, and fishing.

Within the past 10 years the camp has reopened the Frankel Ridge Pool and Trading Post facilities.

Positions range from instructing Scouts, managing a trading post, serving as a health officer and life guarding.

The men have experience in many trades including plumbing, woodworking, or electrical work and provide maintenance throughout the year.

Frankel Ridge still has an open space where Cherokee campsite was located near Bear Creek Lodge.

Located on Blank Ridge: Chippewa, Pawnee, Fox, Osage, Piegon, and Sioux.

Sac was located too close to the water tower and considered unsafe for usage and East Sioux is now part of the enlarged Piegon campsite.

Located on Casady Ridge: Kick-a-poo, Mohawk, Crow, Onondaga, Onieda, Kiowa, Seneca, Iroquois, Cayuga and Navajo.

One located at each of the two west entrances, one large statue inside the main gate, a small monument with directions near the main parking lot and a large monument notating which ridge is Blank and which is Frankel.

Other amenities include water, parade field with flag pole and large parking area.

Camp Wapello was founded in 1932 by George Foster, President of the John Morrell Packing company in Ottumwa, IA.

Foster donated 88 acres of land to the Southern Iowa Boy Scout Council, then headquartered in Ottumwa.

In 1965, 80 acres of land was donated from the historic Steckel Ranch, founded during the Civil War.

Both purchases were subject to a sublease agreement with the Mid-Iowa Council, BSA to continue usage of the camp as a year-round facility for Scouting programs.

[8] The Order of the Arrow Scouting's national honor society is represented in the Mid-Iowa Council by the Mitigwa Lodge.

The Old Guard was responsible for camp promotion and improvement, membership retention and service.

Originally organized by John Benton Westfall,[11] the troupe is composed of members of the Order of the Arrow, along with adults, who have an interest in Native American style drumming and dancing.

[12] The Mitigwa Lodge welcomed Arrowmen from around the country to Iowa State University for the National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) both in 1998 and 2004.