About Us

SCOUTING. GET READY FOR THE ADVENTURE OF YOUR LIFETIME.

For over one hundred years, the Boy Scouts of America has prepared young people for life through some of the most outstanding leadership and growth programs available nationally. Whether it’s camping, hiking, community outreach or building remote controlled robots, Scouting offers exciting programs designed to inspire, build character and instill the values that boys and girls need to succeed today.

Scouting programs foster and strengthen self-confidence, ethics, respect for others, academic skills, and leadership abilities that stay with them their entire lives.

The Greater St. Louis Area Council, one of the largest in the Boy Scouts of America, serves families from 63 counties in the Southeast Missouri, Central and Southern Illinois and St. Louis Metropolitan areas.

The council, headquartered in St. Louis, serves these areas with offices located in St. Louis, Cape Girardeau (MO), Decatur (IL), and Herrin (IL).

Scouting units in the Greater St. Louis area Council are chartered by over 1,000 different community groups that include civic, non-profit, religious, educational and business organizations throughout the region.

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The Scout Mission

To prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Scout Law.

Scout Oath

On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
And to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
Mentally awake, and morally straight.

Scout Law

A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent.