Scouting in Colorado

The first National Wider Opportunity for Senior Girl Scouts, "Recall the Riches restore the Ruins," was held in Central City in 1973.

In 1979, "Sky Hi Ski," a National Wider Opportunity, was held at YMCA Snow Mountain Ranch near Granby and a Senior Girl Scout troop from Mile Hi Council participates in the opening ceremonies at the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.

It was the primary camp for the Denver area until the later 1970s, when it was shut down because of damage caused by environmental factors, where It was replaced by Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch.

During the summer months, TH offers a variety of programs including National Youth Leadership Training, Mountain Men (provisional camping), Alpine Adventure, Tahosa Trek, and EaglePoint.

The Scout will be members of a 12-person team, learning and applying skills to conquer the strenuous challenges of the program in a dynamic mountain environment.

Tahosa Challenge is part of the Project COPE program that encourages youth and adults to expand mental creativity, increase physical abilities, promote leadership skills and instill personal confidence.

Founded in 2000 at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch, EaglePoint is a troop run camp with access to the Tahosa High Adventure Base facilities.

The lodge totem is a coney (Pika), and the name translates to "Dwellers on the Mountain Tops" in the Kiowa language.

The Great Southwest Council serves the Durango and Mesa Verde areas of Colorado, and includes Cascade Boy Scout Camp on the National Register of Historic Places.

The council's territory is divided into seven geographic districts: Adventure West Council - Districts Map Encompassing 3,200 acres (13 km2) at 7,200 feet (2,200 m) to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in elevation, Ben Delatour Scout Ranch[5] near Red Feather Lakes, Colorado is operated by the Adventure West Council and includes four Scout Camps: Camp Charles Jeffrey and Soaring Eagle features several summer program areas including Rock Climbing at the Pancake Climbing Base and on some of the many peaks in the camp, C.O.P.E.

(Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience), Shooting Sports, Scout Skills, Handicraft, and Nature Studies offered through a traditional Merit Badge program.

The camp also has a Scouting Museum and Chuck Wagon Cooking area where traditional dutch oven meals are prepared daily.

Elkhorn High Adventure Base is open to older scouts and Venture Crews for a week of backpacking the Rockies.

Backpacking treks of various difficulty levels are offered on the ranch property and in the nearby Routt, Roosevelt, and Arapahoe National Forests.

Shooting sports, C.O.P.E, climbing and repelling, a horse program, and white water rafting activities round out week-long treks or 10-day-long super-treks.

Hiking is available in the camp and in the nearby Medicine Bow National Forest, including to the top of Laramie Peak.

The totem of this Lodge is the Fire of Friendship centered in a gray arrowhead with a red feather and an antelope antler in the background, and the name translates to "Friend" in the Lakota language.

On board the Space Shuttle Challenger when it disintegrated in 1986 was an American flag that was sponsored by Troop 514 of Monument, Colorado.

When the Challenger wreckage was retrieved from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, this flag was found, sealed in a plastic bag, intact and completely unscathed.

[citation needed] In July 2005, Pathway to the Rockies Council moved from its four-decade home downtown to a temporary location in northeast Colorado Springs until the council's new headquarters at the intersection of I-25 and Fillmore Street was finished in July 2008, to account for the demographic and geographic shift of Colorado Springs.

The camp area consists of hills, low mountains, and valleys covered by a mix of Ponderosa pine forests, high-altitude grasslands, and wetland vegetation along the lake and stream.

In 2008, the Pathway to the Rockies Council acquired a beautiful parcel of land containing 200 acres just outside of Woodland Park in a gift from the estate of Leonard Johnson Jr.

Wildlife is abundant and includes a herd of Elk, deer, bear, red-tailed hawks, eagles, foxes, coyotes, rabbits, squirrels, and much more.

[citation needed] The Rocky Mountain Council of the Boy Scouts of America is headquartered in Pueblo, Colorado, and provides program services to over 100 chartered partner organizations, delivering Scouting to more than 4,600 youth through 167 Scout units in 19 counties of Southern Colorado, including Pueblo, Fremont, Crowley, Kiowa, Prowers, Bent, Otero, Baca, Las Animas, Costilla, Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, Alamosa, Saguache, Huerfano, Custer, Lake and Chaffee Counties.

While no specific reason was provided as to why the Rocky Mountain Council had been issued this transitional charter, it is assumed that this merger occurred due to the bankruptcy lawsuit with that National Council and the requirement to show the courts that structural changes were occurring to support the financial future of the Boy Scouts of America.

However, with the arrival of a new WC-C Scout Executive, a decision was made to discontinue MOS and replace it with an OA lodge which was officially recognized by the BSA.

The traditional MOS Eagle Claws were permitted to be worn by youth and adult members suspended from a French braid spiral lanyard in the tribal official red, white and blue craftstrip colors.

The camp was located in the Colorado Rockies near the eastern entrance of Glenwood Canyon, 8 miles off of I-70 from the Dotsero exit.

[citation needed] International Girl Scout gatherings named Senior Roundups were held every three years from 1956 until 1965.

The oldest living Girl Scout was Marianne Elser Crowder, born in Colorado Springs in April 1906.

The CSP for the historic Denver Area Council
The CSP for the historic Pikes Peak Council
Headquarters of the Denver Area Council
BP Boot Print - Peaceful Valley