About Us
We believe being outdoors is fun and a great place to learn all kinds of practical skills. As Scouting’s founder Baden Powell stated, it is the best place to learn self-reliance, leadership and to push through our self-perceived limitations. Hence, we raft and canoe the rivers and lakes, don backpacks to head into the alpine or the canyon country, get on our bikes and ride the mountains or trek down the old railroad beds, slide into our sea kayaks, grab our fishing gear to try our luck, put on some skis to head up to a mountain yurt and so much more. But sometimes it’s just to get outside to sit around the campfire and tell stories about our adventures or stare at the embers and contemplate before bed. There’s an expression that ‘you can’t take the outing out of scouting’ and we’re the living embodiment of getting outside for all manner of fun, including loads of ‘high adventure’. We invite you to join us and partake in the amazing opportunities we have around Santa Fe, the southwest and the Rockies. There’s no better place to be a Scout than in northern New Mexico.
Why Scouting?
For more than 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Today, these values are just as relevant in helping youth grow to their full potential as they were in 1910. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives.
Scouts BSA provides youth with programs and activities that allow them to
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Try new things.
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Provide service to others.
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Build self-confidence.
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Reinforce ethical standards.
While various activities and youth groups teach basic skills and promote teamwork, Scouting goes beyond that and encourages youth to achieve a deeper appreciation for service to others in their community.
Scouting provides youth with a sense that they are important as individuals. It is communicated to them that those in the Scouting family care about what happens to them, regardless of whether a game is won or lost.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Scouting promotes activities that lead to personal responsibility and high self-esteem. As a result, when hard decisions have to be made, peer pressure can be resisted and the right choices can be made.
Since 1910, Scouting has helped mold the future leaders of this country by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun. Scouts BSA believes and, through more than a century of experience, understands that helping youth puts us on a path toward a more conscientious, responsible, and productive society.
Scouting, with programs for young men and women, helps meet these six essential needs of the young people growing up in our society:
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Mentoring
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Lifelong Learning
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Faith Traditions
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Serving Others
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Healthy Living
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Building Character
