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After its first full year of operation, Trail Life USA had 524 officially chartered troops in 48 states and just under 20,000 members. [2] Trail Life USA's headquarters (known as the "Home Office") is located on a 127-acre dedicated camping facility known as Camp Aiken, south of Greenville, South Carolina. The property features a full gymnasium ...
SpiralScouts International (neo-pagan youth organisation in the USA) Trail Life USA (Evangelical Christian youth organization) Wandervogel (old German youth movement that re-emerged after World War II after having been banned in 1935 by the Nazis) The Woodcraft Folk (Modern version of British Kibbo Kift) * considered Scouting in most European ...
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 248 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
[62] [63] In September 2013, a new scouting group called Trail Life USA was created, in support of what founders call "traditional, Christian" scouting. [64] [65] [66] Subsequently, some Christian denomination congregations replaced their Boy Scouts of America troops with those of Trail Life USA. [67]
Youth organizations in the United States are of many different types. The largest is the government run 4-H program, followed by the federally chartered but private Scouting movement groups: the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA).
The American Heritage Girls was founded in 1995 by Patti Garibay and other parents from West Chester, Ohio to form a Christian alternative to the Girl Scouts of the USA after the Girl Scouts allowed individual Scouts and Scouters to use wording appropriate to their own beliefs for the word "God" in the promise and supposedly banned prayer at meetings. [9]
Peoria native and former Richwoods High School cross country runner Matt Peharda on the ultra marathon mountain trail during the Leadville Trail 100 Run in Colorado on Aug. 17, 2024.
Trail Life USA is a Christian Scouting group formed in September 2013 in reaction to the BSA's decision to cease its exclusion of openly gay youth from membership. [66] Frontier Girls is a scouting style program for girls that focuses on life skills, patriotism, community service, and a love of learning serving girls ages 3 through adult ...