Los Angeles Area Council

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Founded in 1914,^[1] the Los Angeles Area Council (LAAC) (#33) serves most of the City of Los Angeles as well as several other cities in the greater Los Angeles area. It is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in Los Angeles County, California. in 2006, it served 51,000 youth.^[1],

1 History
2 Districts
3 Council Camps
4 National Youth Leader Training
5 Order of the Arrow
6 Pinewood Derby
7 See also
8 External links
9 References

[edit] History

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The LAAC was one of the first councils organized in the United States and is one of the largest councils still in existence.

[edit] Districts

The following are the districts and the communities they serve:^[2]

Frontier District - serving the communities of Artesia, Bellflower, Cerritos, Compton, Downey, Hawaiian Gardens, La Mirada, Lynwood and Paramount
North Star District - serving the communities of downtown Los Angeles, Atwater Village, Chavez Ravine, Chinatown, Echo Park, Griffith Park, Highland Park, Hollywood, Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Los Feliz, Mount Washington, Silver Lake, South Park, Thai Town, Toy District and South Pasadena.
Pacifica District - serving the communities of Carson, El Segundo, Gardena, Harbor City, Hermosa Beach, Lomita, Manhattan Beach, Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills Estates, San Pedro, Torrance and Wilmington
Rio Hondo District - serving the communities of Montebello, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs and Whittier
San Antonio District - serving South Gate
Thunderbird District - serving the Los Angeles neighborhoods of Firestone Park, Baldwin Hills, Central and King, Boyle Heights and Wagner; the South Los Angeles neighborhoods of (Watts, Leimert Park (Koreatown), August F. Haw, Westchester, Exposition Park, Crenshaw District, Windsor Hills) and the communities of Lawndale, Hawthorne and Inglewood

[edit] Council Camps

Cabrillo Beach Youth Waterfront Sports Center 33°42′54″N 118°17′03″W / 33.7150, -118.2841

In 1946, the LAAC leased the Cabrillo Camp property. It is located at the base of the cliffs directly below Fort MacArthur. The camp was open to both Scouts and other youth groups. The camp utilized the old military Quonset huts and portable trailers. ^[3]

In the late 70s, the Port of Los Angeles granted the scouts a long-term lease.

With money donated by Steven Spielberg in 1987, the Spielberg Center opened a swimming pool, campgrounds, dining area, craft center, Scout Shop, staff quarters, boat house and amphitheater. The facility is 12.3 acres (0.019 sq mi/0.050 km²) and the building is 25,000 square feet (2,300 m²) of Spanish and Mediterranean architecture. ^[3]

Firestone Scout Reservation ^[4] (elev. 500 ft) 33°56′32″N 117°50′51″W / 33.9423, -117.8474 is a semi-primitive camp located just east of State Route 57 in Tonner Canyon between Diamond Bar and Brea, California. The facilities are available to most non-profit youth groups in addition to Scouting organizations.
Forest Lawn Scout Reservation ^[5] (elev. 5,300 ft) 34°15′04″N 117°07′37″W / 34.2511, -117.1270 was formerly known as the Lake Arrowhead Scout Camps. FLSR is a group of Boy Scout and Cub Scout Resident Summer Camps located 3 miles (5 km) east of Lake Arrowhead, California on more than 2,000 acres (8 km²) in the San Bernardino National Forest.
- Circle X Ranch at Big Horn is a Boy Scout Resident Summer Camp, opened in 1952 as Camp Big Horn.
- Camp Pepperdine became a Cub Scout Resident Summer Camp in 2007; it was formerly a primitive camping facility that opened in 1960.
- Camp Pitchess, (Now Closed) formerly Camp Cedar, opened in 1953 as a Cub Scout Resident Summer Camp; it burned in the Waterman Canyon Wildfire, October 2003.^[6]
- Camp Pollock - adjacent to what was once Camp Pitchess is a year-round training center with an indoor climbing wall and cabins.
- John Wayne Outpost is a wilderness camping area that opened in 1979.^[7]
- Northrop Family Camp opened in 1955 is now a staff housing area.
Log Cabin Wilderness Camp (elev. 9,640 ft) 37°58′36″N 119°10′26″W / 37.9767, -119.174 is a high adventure base camp located in the Inyo National Forest. The camp is near the Tioga Pass Road on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada bordering the Hoover Wilderness and Yosemite National Park.
Camp Circle X - 34°06′32″N 118°56′11″W / 34.1090, -118.9364 Closed located in the Triunfo Pass (now part of the Santa Monica Mountains NRA, (operated by the NPS))^[8]

[edit] National Youth Leader Training

The council offers National Youth Leadership Training.^[9] Formerly known as Brownsea 22 Junior Leader Training, NYLT is an intense six-day outdoor experience for Boy Scout Troop youth leaders ages 13-17.. The Los Angeles Area Council holds an NYLT encampment each August on the Forest Lawn Scout Reservation.^[10]