| Gulf Coast Council | |||
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| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Pensacola, Florida | ||
| Country | United States | ||
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| Website http://www.gulfcoastcouncil.org/ |
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Gulf Coast Council of the Boy Scouts of America serves Scouts in Florida and South Alabama, with the council office located in Pensacola, Florida. The council's name refers to the Gulf Coast of the United States. It has one of the largest camps in the southeast.
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In 1961 the Spanish Trail Scout Reservation was founded in the Gulf Coast Council. STSR is one of the largest scout reservations in the southeast. It offers a full range of facilities including: a 40-acre (160,000 m2) lake for swimming, canoeing, and fishing; a dining hall; and many places to camp. There are two camps on the STSR, Camp Euchee and Camp Jambo, each with full camping facilities.
Yustaga Lodge #385 was founded in 1948 by Ted Childress and Norman Savellea. A chief and eleven braves from the Alibamu Lodge #179, Tukabatchee Area Council of Montgomery, Alabama came to the Gulf Coast Council’s Camp Big Heart on May 21-22, 1948 and inducted 24 new arrowmen[1]. The Yustaga Lodge also has a wide variety of patches. Some of its lodge flaps and other patches can be seen here. The word Yustaga means the "Drinkers of the Fire Water."
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