Editing Scouting in Colorado (section)

==Scouting in Colorado today==

There are five [[Boy Scouts of America]] (BSA) local councils and a single [[Girl Scouts of the USA]] council in Colorado, merged from an original five.

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.

{{As of|2007|10|1|df=US}}, all Girl Scouts from the state are joined as ''Girl Scouts of Colorado Council''.

===Greater Colorado Council===
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[[File:Denver Area Council HQ.jpg|thumb|Headquarters of the Denver Area Council]]
The Greater Colorado Council, previously named Denver Area Council, of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] is headquartered<ref>{{Cite web |title=Denver Area Council Scout Shop |url=http://www.denverboyscouts.org/openrosters/ViewOrgPageLink.asp?LinkKey=10929&orgkey=1704}}</ref> in [[Lakewood, Colorado]], and supports [[Scouting]] units and youth in an area of central [[Colorado]] from Arapahoe and Adams Counties east to the [[Continental Divide]].

====Organization====
For traditional units, the council is split into districts related by school districts. These districts are:

* Alpine&nbsp;- Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Jefferson County, Gilpin County, Clear Creek County, and Platte Canyon School District
* Black Feather&nbsp;— Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Douglas County, Littleton, Sheridan, Englewood, and Elbert County
* Centennial&nbsp;— Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Aurora Public School, Bennett School District, Byers School District, Cherry Creek School District, Deer Trail School District, and the Strasburg
* Frontier&nbsp;— Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Denver Public Schools
* Majestic Mesas&nbsp; - Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Delta County School District, Dolores County School District, Gunnison Watershed School District, Hinsdale County School District, Mesa County Valley School District, Montrose County  School District, Norwood Public Schools, Ouray School District, Ridgway School District, Telluride School District, and the West End School District
* Three Rivers&nbsp; - Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Aspen School District 1, DeBeque, Eagle County, East Grand, Garfield County School District 16 (Grand Valley School District 16), Garfield School District RE-2, Hayden, Lake County,  Meeker, Moffat County, Park County, Plateau Valley, Rangely, Roaring Fork, South Routt, Steamboat Springs, and the Summit
* Valley&nbsp;— Serving SCHOOL DISTRICTS Brighton, Adams 12 and Adams 14, Mapleton, Westminster 50, and the Boulder Valley
* The new Majestic Mesas and Three Rivers district encompasses the former Western Colorado Council.

The council, also, has non-geographic districts to support non-traditional programs operated by the council. These districts are:

* Venturing&nbsp;— Serving all young men and women ages 14–20
* LeAP (Leadership Assistance Program);— In-school traditional Scouting in Denver County and our Soccer in Scouting program
* Learning for Life&nbsp;— Serving youth in Denver
* Special Needs&nbsp;— Serving youth with disabilities throughout the Metropolitan Area
* Exploring&nbsp;— Serving ages 14–21 in career exploration in the Denver Metropolitan Area

====Programs and activities====
[[National Youth Leadership Training]] (NYLT) is a week-long youth oriented leadership training experience held for three weeks during the summer. This camps aims to shape youth scouts into full trained scouts and was previously named Bighorn, now it is called NYLT at Bighorn, symbolizing the area that it takes place in.

====Camps====
The Denver Area Council operates camps in two locations in Colorado.  The primary camp, ''Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch'', is located in [[Elbert, Colorado]].  The second, smaller camp, is ''Camp Tahosa'', located near [[Nederland, Colorado]].

=====Tahosa High Adventure Base=====
''Camp Tahosa (TH)'' is a camp near [[Ward, Colorado]], serving the [[Denver Area Council]] of the [[Boy Scouts of America]].  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''.  The camp now serves as a [[high adventure]] base.  The High Adventure Treks from Camp Tahosa lead Scouts into the adjacent forest.

Tahosa is home to  separate camping programs for both Summer and non summer usage: From September to Early May, TH offers  OKPIK, Tahosa Challenge (COPE), and weekend camping. 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.

Alpine Adventure is a six night mountaineering adventure in the high country of Colorado, combining the training facilities of Tahosa High Adventure Base with the lakes and vistas of the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area. 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 Trek was started in 1995 to provide a basic knowledge of backpacking/low impact camping, the program now offers more advanced training and longer, customized treks for the units of the  [[Boy Scouts of America]].

Okpik is a weekend extreme winter camping experience design to train Scouts in winter survival. The program starts with a classroom session on Friday night to prepare the scouts. On Saturday, the scouts will load equipment and supplies into sleds before snowshoeing around Tumblesome Lake. On the far shore of the lake, participants use the remainder of the day to construct [[quinzhee]]s which they spend the night in.

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.

EaglePoint is the newest addition to Tahosa.  Founded in 2000 at Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch, EaglePoint is a troop run camp with access to the Tahosa High Adventure Base facilities.  With a small staff, troops can build their own schedule and do whatever they would like for their week at camp.   This program had a predecessor that started as early as 1991 called Eagle Quest.

=====Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch=====
[[File:BP Boot Print - Tahosa.jpg|thumb|[[B-P's footprint|BP Boot Print]] - Peaceful Valley]]
''Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch (PV)'' is the main camping location of the Greater Colorado Council of the [[Boy Scouts of America]].  The camp, built in the 1960s by the Army Corps of Engineers, was a replacement to the original camp, [[Camp Tahosa]].  The camp is located just outside [[Elbert, Colorado]].

Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch is home to three separate camps: Camp Cris Dobbins; Camp Cortland Dietler; and Magness Adventure Camp.  Like Tahosa, Peaceful Valley also hosted a troop-run camp also called EaglePoint; however, as of 2009, EaglePoint is defunct (the EaglePoint program at Tahosa is still active, though).  Additionally, in 2005, the Boy Scouts of America Denver Area Council acquired a large section of land adjacent to Peaceful Valley, and is the location of their Magness Adventure Camp for Cub Scouts.

Facilities include the Travis Shooting Sports Facility, which contains an Olympic shotgun shooting range, the Gates Aquatic Center, a horse corral, BB Gun range, two lakes, and the three above mentioned camps. The camp also has a bronze boot print casts of [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden Powell]] located near the main camp office.

Camp Cris Dobbins is the flagship camp of Peaceful Valley.  The camp is home to The Travis Shooting Facility, which includes an Olympic shotgun range, the million dollar Gates Aquatic Center, a dining hall which underwent a nearly twelve million dollar renovation and expansion in 2019, and over twenty campsites.  The camp, with a capacity of around 700 campers, offers dozens of merit badges and programs for scouts of all ages.

Camp Dietler, founded in 1988 by William Eck, is a patrol style summer camp experience.  While merit badges are offered, the main focus is on the patrol method.  This is carried out through patrol cooking, events determined by the patrol leader's council, and a choice of two high adventure outposts.  The camp is named for Cortlandt Dietler, who donated the money to build the camp commissary.

Magness Adventure Camp is the Denver Area Council's [[Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scouting]] camp.  The camp has three shelters, each with a campsite housing eighty tents.  The program includes lake activities, a BB Gun range, an archery range, recently added a slingshot paint ball range and a firewatch tower that overlooks Elbert County.  The camp is also available for rental by outside groups, and is often frequented by groups such as Denver's High School [[ROTC]] and girls groups from [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].

====Tahosa Lodge====
Tahosa Lodge #383, chartered in 1948, serves 1218 [[Order of the Arrow|Arrowmen]] as of 2004. It is the largest lodge in Colorado. The lodge totem is a [[Pika|coney]] ([[Pika]]), and the name translates to "Dwellers on the Mountain Tops" in the [[Kiowa]] language. The lodge is divided into seven chapters which correspond with the seven districts of the Denver Area Council. Tahosa Lodge holds their ordeal weekends and other events at the two council camps, Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch and Tahosa Scout Camp. Many patches from the lodge feature a character known as the Purple Bishop, and delegates of the lodge to [[National Order of the Arrow Conference|NOAC]] can often be seen wearing purple cloaks. The Purple Bishop is a legend from Camp Tahosa.

===Great Southwest Council===

{{Main|Great Southwest Council}}

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]].

===Adventure West Council===
{{Adventure West Council Infobox}}
''Adventure West Council'' of the Boy Scouts of America is headquartered in [[Greeley, Colorado]]. Composed of the former Longs Peak Council (named after the tallest peak in the council territory) and the former Greater Wyoming Council, the Adventure West Council supports [[Scouting]] youth in northeastern Colorado north of Denver, central and eastern Wyoming and the [[Salient (geography)|panhandle]] of western Nebraska, and is chartered by BSA to organize, extend, support, and control the Scouting program within its exclusive territory. The ''WyoBraska Council'' of [[Scottsbluff]] merged into the Longs Peak Council in 1975, and Longs Peak Council merged with the Greater Wyoming Council to form the Adventure West Council in 2021.

====Organization====
The council's territory is divided into seven geographic districts:
[https://awbsa.org/districts/ Adventure West Council - Districts Map]

* Bighorn District
* Frontier District
* Golden Plains District
* Shoshone District
* Thunder Basin District
* Tri-Trails District
* Wapiti District

====Ben Delatour Scout Ranch====
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Encompassing {{convert|3200|acre|km2}} at {{convert|7200|ft|m}} to {{convert|8000|ft|m}} in elevation, ''Ben Delatour Scout Ranch''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ben Delatour Scout Ranch |url=https://campreservation.com/062/Camps}}</ref>  near [[Red Feather Lakes, Colorado]] is operated by the Adventure West Council and includes four Scout Camps:

* Jack Nicol Cub Scout Camp
* Camp Charles Jeffrey (Boy Scout Camp)
* Soaring Eagle (Boy Scout Camp)
* Elkhorn High Adventure Base

''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. Scout units can choose between a dining hall experience or a patrol cook option where meals are cooked at your campsite.

''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 [[Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest|Routt]], [[Roosevelt National Forest|Roosevelt]], and [[Arapahoe National Forest|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.

''Jack Nicol Cub Scout Camp'' is the newest resident camp on the ranch, completed in 2001. It offers age-appropriate programs that are not necessarily designed for rank advancement. Camp Nicol consists of 3 major themed program areas (Fort Unfug, Castle Walker, and the Everett Seaport) and offers a summer program featuring a new camp-wide theme each year. The 2014 theme is Time Travel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jack Nicol Cub Scout Camp |url=http://camps.longspeakbsa.org/nicol}}</ref> Program activities include BB gun and archery shooting, hiking, handicrafts, hiking, games and a 'light parade' around the lake at night.

Ben Delatour Scout Ranch includes summer camp and year-round camping, with several buildings available for year-round use. The ranch has been an active site for sustainable forestry and in 2011, the ranch became protected from future development through a conservation easement with [[The Conservation Fund]], the Longs Peak Council, and the [[Colorado State Forest Service]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ben Delatour Scout Ranch |url=http://www.conservationfund.org/projects/ben-delatour-scout-ranch/}}</ref>

====Chimney Park Scout Camp====

''Chimney Park Boy Scout Camp'' is located in the [[Snowy Range Mountains]], approximately {{convert|33|mi|km}} west of [[Laramie, Wyoming]] on US Highway 230 and about {{convert|6.4|mi|km}} west of [[Woods Landing, Wyoming]].  The approximate coordinates for the Baldwin Lodge are 41° 4' 19.78" N 106° 6' 29.2" W (NAD83/WGS84).

Chimney Park Boy Scout Camp offers year-round camping, especially winter camps, at an altitude of about {{convert|9000|ft|m}}. The winter snow depth varies typically from 30 to 150&nbsp;cm (1 to five feet), and the winter daytime high temperatures vary typically from -9 to +7&nbsp;°C (+15 to +45&nbsp;°F) The winter nighttime low temperatures vary typically from -26 to 0&nbsp;°C (-15 to +32&nbsp;°F). A lodge with a stove and fireplace are available.  Lodge use must be reserved through the Longs Peak Council Office.  There is a usage fee. See  https://campreservation.com/062/Camps/909 for more information.

====Camp Laramie Peak====

''Camp Laramie Peak'', at the base of [[Black Mountain (Wyoming)|Black Mountain]] near [[Wheatland, Wyoming]], offers summer camp and year-round camping. It was purchased in 1920 by a group of volunteers wanting a place to take Scouts in the wilderness. The rugged terrain, rambling brooks, and mountain backdrop offer Troops a place to experience the traditional camp experience including the merit badge camp program. The camp also offers a first-year camper program, horseback riding, rock climbing, ziplines, mountain boarding, and mountain biking.

Hiking is available in the camp and in the nearby [[Medicine Bow – Routt National Forest|Medicine Bow National Forest]], including to the top of Laramie Peak. The elevation at the Camp is approximately {{convert|8000|ft|m}}, and summer temperatures range from the 40s at night to the 90s during the day.

====Camp Patiya====

''Camp Patiya'' is a 30-acre camping and day-use camp about seven miles west of [[Boulder, Colorado]]. Camp Patiya was started by the Camp Fire Girls. The Camp Fire Council purchased the original twenty acres for the camp in 1960 and began holding group and family camps shortly thereafter. All the buildings on site were constructed between 1963 and 1981. In 1977, an additional ten acres of land was donated, bringing the camp to its present size. Camp Fire continued to hold group camping year-round and Day Camps in the summers. In the 1980s, membership in Camp Fire declined. In 1987, it was determined that the goals for operating the camp could best be met by transferring the ownership to Adventure West Council.

====Kola Lodge====
Kola Lodge #464, chartered in 1951, serves over 100 Arrowmen as of 2022. 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]]. In 1973, Kola Lodge absorbed Wiyaka Luta #403 of the Wyo-Braska Council. In 2021 Kola Lodge absorbed Tatokainyanka  Lodge #359 of Greater Wyoming Council.

===Pathway to the Rockies Council===
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The ''Pathway to the Rockies Council,'' formerly known as the Pikes Peak Council, of the [[Boy Scouts of America]], headquartered in [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]]. Named after the most famous peak in the council territory, upon which '[[America the Beautiful]]' was written, Pathway to the Rockies Council provides [[Scouting]] to youth in east-central Colorado, including [[Park County, Colorado|Park]], [[Teller County, Colorado|Teller]], [[El Paso County, Colorado|El Paso]], [[Elbert County, Colorado|Elbert]], [[Lincoln County, Colorado|Lincoln]], [[Kit Carson County, Colorado|Kit Carson]] and [[Cheyenne County, Colorado|Cheyenne Counties]].

As with ''Longs Peak Council'', there is officially no [[apostrophe (mark)|apostrophe]] in the name, due to a ruling about the [[Pikes Peak|mountain]] itself by the [[Board on Geographic Names]].

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 [[Challenger flag|flag]] was found, sealed in a plastic bag, intact and completely unscathed.

====History====
In 1960, Colorado Springs host the 50th National Scout Jamboree.  Known as the BSA Golden Jubilee, its theme was "For God and Country" and from July 22 to July 28, 1960, over 56,377 scouts and scouters were in attendance.  Today, remnants of the 50th Jamboree can be found throughout Colorado Springs.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

The council has an international relationship with [[Scouting in Kyrgyzstan|Scouts]] in [[Kyrgyzstan]].{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

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 vacated original building became the home of Sario, a [[Lions Clubs International|Lions Club]] project.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

;Scout executives{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
* Ray Ryerson 1940–1973
* Loren Swenson 1973–1993
* James Winkler 1993–1995
* Ross Harrop 1995–2004
* Ian Lilien 2004–2008
* Dustin Shaver 2008–2012
* Kent Downing 2012–2016
* Jim Machamer 2017–present

====Organization====
;Districts{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
* Frontier District (Serves [[Colorado Springs School District 11]] and [[Falcon School District 49]])
* High Plains District (Serves the school districts of Peyton, Calhan, Ramah, Ellicott, Miami-Yoder, Edison, Hanover, and all communities in Elbert, Lincoln, Kit Carson, and Kiowa Counties, pointing east to the Kansas border including the communities of [[Limon, Colorado|Limon]], [[Burlington, Colorado|Burlington]] and [[Cheyenne Wells]])
* Ute District (Serves [[Harrison School District 2]], [[Cheyenne Mountain School District 12]], [[Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8]] and [[Widefield School District 3]])
* Jamboree District (Serves [[Academy School District 20]] and [[Lewis-Palmer School District 38]])
* ScoutReach District (Serves [[Colorado Springs School District 11]] and [[Harrison School District 2]])

====Camps====

=====Camp Alexander=====
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The council camp, ''Camp Alexander'', is located in the [[Eleven Mile Canyon]] in the [[Pike National Forest]] approximately {{convert|45|mi|km}} west of Colorado Springs, and two miles (3&nbsp;km) south of [[Lake George (town), Colorado|Lake George]], in [[Park County, Colorado|Park County]], was donated in 1946 by [[J. Don Alexander]] of the [[Alexander Film Company]]. There are a series of ''[[Burma Shave]]''-style signs on the main road into camp, each sign having one of the points of the [[Scout Law]]. Camp Alexander is between 8200 and {{convert|8600|ft|m}} elevation. 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 the 2012 Springer Wildfire, the camp was evacuated, and parts of the camp were used by firefighters as staging and defensible spaces.

=====Glen Aspen Scout Ranch=====
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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. The property is surrounded on most sides by the Pike National Forest. The property is hilly with several streams running through the property. The land is covered with varieties of foliage including pine, cedar, and of course Aspen. Wildlife is abundant and includes a herd of Elk, deer, bear, red-tailed hawks, eagles, foxes, coyotes, rabbits, squirrels, and much more.

====Order of the Arrow====
Ha-Kin-Skay-A-Ki Lodge #387, chartered in 1948, serves 743 Arrowmen as of 2004. The lodge totem is a [[Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep]], and the name is said to translate to "Great Horned Goat of the Mountain" but does not specify the language or dialect. Until 1953, the lodge was simply known as Pike's Peak Lodge.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

In response to the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire that affected Colorado Springs, the lodge released a fundraising lodge flap featuring a bighorn sheep looking over a burning area.{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}

===Rocky Mountain Council===
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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.

==== Transitional Charter ====
In May 2021 following the National Annual Meeting of the BSA, the Rocky Mountain Council received notification that the council charter had been changed to a transitional charter. Instructions where that the council was to merge with the Pikes Peak Council by August 1, 2021. 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.

On August 1, 2021, the Rocky Mountain Council officially merged with the Pikes Peak Council to form the Pikes Peak - Rocky Mountain Council.

In September 2021, the council executive board voted on the new name of the merged council to be Pathway to the Rockies.

====Organization====
* Cuerno Verde District
* High Mountain District
* Pioneer Trails District

====Camps====
* Rocky Mountain High Adventure Base: Located on San Isabel Scout Ranch, formerly Packard High Adventure Base.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rocky Mountain HAB |url=http://www.rmhab.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805090020/http://www.rmcbsa.org/RMHAB/ |archive-date=2018-08-05 |access-date=2022-07-17}}</ref>
* San Isabel Scout Ranch: Located near [[San Isabel, Colorado|San Isabel]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=SISRBSA |url=http://www.SISRBSA.org}}</ref>

==== Tupwee Gudas Gov Youchiquot Soovep Lodge ====
Tupwee Gudas Gov Youchiquot Soovep Lodge #536, chartered in 1958, serves 117 Arrowmen as of 2004. The lodge totem is a ''Populus tremuloides'' or [[Aspen|Rocky Mountain quaking aspen]]. Also known as Tupwee Lodge, its rather long name refers to its totem in the Ute language. The name means land of the quaking aspens.

===Western Colorado Council===
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The ''Western Colorado Council'' of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] was founded in 1942. In May 2019 the council merged with the Denver Area Council.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sheaks |first=Nikki |title=Western Colorado Boy Scouts merge with Denver Boy Scouts division |url=https://www.nbc11news.com/content/news/509337711.html |access-date=2019-05-05 |website=www.nbc11news.com |language=en}}</ref>

* Grand Mesa District serves Mesa County, and also hosts the council office
* Majestic Mountain District serves Hinsdale, Gunnison, Ouray, San Miguel, Montrose and Delta counties, a geographic area approximately the same size as the state of Connecticut
* Three Rivers District serves Garfield, Eagle, Summit, Pitkin, Moffat, Routt, Grand, and Rio Blanco counties

====Mic-O-Say Lodge====
Mic-O-Say Lodge #541, chartered in 1959, serves 168 Arrowmen as of 2004. The lodge totem is an [[eagle]]. Prior to 1960 there was not an Order of the Arrow Lodge (OA) serving Western Colorado Council (WC-C).  The Council honor camping organization had previously been the [[Tribe of Mic-O-Say]] (MOS)  (also existing in some Councils in Kansas and Missouri) which had been founded by H. Roe Bartle.  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.  As a compromise, the lodge was allowed to retain the name "Mic-O-Say" and to continue some of the MOS insignia and traditions.  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.

====Summer camps====

===== Steve Fossett Spirit of Adventure Ranch =====
The Steve Fossett Spirit of Adventure Ranch (SOAR) was launched in Summer 2014. 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. The camp closed after the 2018 summer season, when it served as an alternate high adventure base for scouts unable to attend Philmont due to summer fires. The council merger did not include plans to renew the lease for the camp.

=====Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch=====
The Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch (SPSR) is located near [[Walsenburg, Colorado]] and borders the [[Spanish Peaks Wilderness]]. It is a local council camp of the [[Santa Fe Trail Council]] based out of [[Garden City, Kansas]]. The camp gives program geared toward outdoor education such as wilderness backpacking, climbing, and outdoor skills. In 2013, the camp was partially destroyed by [[East Peak fire|a wildfire]] which destroyed over 13,500 acres. The camp has since been rebuilt and has re-opened for operation.