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The Alamo Area Council, BSA, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, serves a 13 county area imparting the Scouting program to over 18,000 youth and 5,000 volunteer adults in South Texas.

The Boy Scouts of America continue to prepare young people for life by providing the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and values-based leadership training, utilizing outdoor activity, citizenship, and sports fitness.

Find Scouts in Your Area

NOTE: To serve you better, the Alamo Area Council soft launched PHASE ONE of this new mobile optimized website on Monday, April 8, 2019. Many things, including event and facility registrations, still use the legacy site. It is still available by visiting Legacy.AlamoAreaBSA.org

PHASE TWO will be launched later but you can BETA Test our new event registration by visiting Services.AlamoAreaBSA.org.

Reserve Your 2019 Adventure at Bear Creek Summer Camp

Since 1964, Bear Creek Scout Reservation has been the premier camp of the Alamo Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Registration is still open for SESSIONS 3, 4, and 5.

Scouting for Food 2019

Support A Unified Focus on Youth Making a Difference in our Communities Scouting for Food is a region-wide food drive led by local Boy Scouts of America with the goal of collecting 20,000 pounds of food for those in need, with a focus on youth. We are proud to continue this partnership in the community. […]

Scouts Carry American Flag during 2019 Battle of Flowers Parade

Every April, downtown San Antonio becomes the site of a citywide celebration – the Battle of Flowers® Parade. Since 1891, the women volunteer members of the Battle of Flowers® Association have produced a parade to honor the fallen heroes of the Alamo and to commemorate the victory at the battle of San Jacinto.

Soft Launch of New Council Website Happened April 8th

Thank you Scouting leader, parent, and volunteer supporters of the Alamo Area Council! Seven years ago, only 3,000 monthly sessions and 300 unique monthly visitors connected with our older Council site www.alamoarea-boyscouts.org. You jumped in with us and we launched our existing Council site www.AlamoAreaBSA.org at the Council wide Roundtable on August 2012, and it has grown to over 17,000 monthly […]

Cub Scout Day Camps 2019

Come out to our exciting day camps this year, and experience a week of adventure. The Boy Scouts of America, Alamo Area Council offers six weeks of day camp adventure at six different locations starting on June 10th through July 26th. Most of our Day Camps are held at McGimsey Scout Park, a beautiful 140 […]

Merit Badge University Spring 2019

May 18, 2019 A one day event hosted by the Boy Scouts of America, Alamo Area Council, for Boy Scouts in the 6th-12th Grade or ages 11-17 to earn up to four merit badges to help with their path to earn their Eagle Scout rank and serve our community.MBU Flyer Information – Click Here Troop Contact Registration: March 18 […]

Talking to the Press and finding Scouting in the News

A News Media Guide You Can Use by Angel Zuniga Martinez for the Alamo Area BSA Scouting needs families to read engaging stories or see action pictures and videos about all of the great things Scouts and Scout units are doing, whether it’s something fun or something that’s helping the community. The media does like […]

Alamo Area Council Marketing Award of Excellence

Help Share the Stories of Scouting that Shape our local Community The Boy Scouts of America, Alamo Area Council will recognize Scouting units within the council for outstanding efforts in documented positive public relations within the local, regional, national, or global media. Awards will be presented at the Council-wide Roundtable usually held every August. Award categories: Most […]

What is “Brand”?

Discussion and Clarification of some Elements that comprise the Boy Scout BRAND by Angel Martinez for the Alamo Area BSA: January 22, 2019 What is “Brand”? My working definition – A brand is a multi-faceted symbol that is the summation of values consisting of tangible elements like a colored graphic, words, or musical jingle AND […]

On My Honor, To Be Prepared: Oliver Chandler

The Alamo Area Council is proud to announce the awarding of the Medal of Merit to Oliver Chandler for his actions using his Scouting skills to save lives. While on a Whitewater Raft excursion at the New River Gorge in West Virginia, Star Scout Oliver Chandler, age 16, and his crew ended up in water […]

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