Start the Adventure

Find a Scouting Unit

To find a Scouting unit in your area, visit www.BeAScout.org, the search source for all Scouting.

You can join any time! To contact a staff member about getting involved call 502-361-2624.

Cost of Scouting

Membership with the Boy Scouts of America is a prorated national fee of $15 per year. See the prorated fee schedule. (coming soon)

Members are encouraged to subscribe to Boys' Life magazine, an award-winning publication for only $12 per year for 12 issues.

Other costs are shared by a combination of the sponsoring organization, the Northern Star Council, the greater community, units (through fund-raisers), as well as parents and youth members. 

Leaders

Scouting is a volunteer-led program.  Parents and the organizations who charter (sponsor) Scouting groups select the leaders who they would like to work with their children.

Many tools are available to assist unit leaders be effective and enjoy their experience including training, monthly workshops (known as roundtables), and printed and online literature.

How to Become a Volunteer

Scout Leaders have the opportunity to work with young people and their families, improving your community by enriching participants' lives through fun-filled, worthwhile programs that teach values. By making the commitment to serve as a leader, you can help make a positive difference in the kind of adults they will become and build a better future for our nation.

Learn more about volunteering.

How to Start a Scouting Group

Community-based organizations receive national charters to use the Scouting program as a part of their own youth work.

Learn more about sponsoring Scouting.

Recruiting Materials

Support material for current unit leaders to extend Scouting. (Coming soon)

The most important element of the Scout Round-Up is to ensure that every boy is extended an invitation to join Scouting. Our goal is to enroll prospective Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, Webelos and Boy Scouts into existing packs and troops, to enlist parent participation as unit leaders and committee members, and to organize new units to take care of boys in areas we are not currently serving.