Learning, Exploring, and Leading for Life!
Troop 236 has a long history of amazing adventures with a great group of Scouts, traversing the state and country with backpacks, canoes, and climbing gear. Our program provides opportunities to develop strong outdoor skills as well as gain exposure to wide ranging career paths, arts and crafts, science and engineering pursuits, and American culture, heritage, and history. In a given year we also log hundreds of hours of community service through projects lead by Scouts. When you also consider our six rank advancement levels and over 130 merit badge opportunities, there are so many ways for Scouts to dig in and DO things. Scroll all the way down on this page to catch a glimpse of all that we DO.
We Cultivate Leaders
We Build Community
We Adventure
We Offer Service
We meet weekly on Tuesday nights, with meetings organized around group activities, work on rank and merit badge requirements, and just plain fun. Scouts plan the agendas and run the meetings to gain leadership skills.
We organize monthly camping outings, each with unique features including hiking, cycling, fishing, rock climbing, canoeing, snow camping, and more. Scouts lead these outings with adult support. We also participate in BSA summer camps and other special programming.
Scouts in Troop 236 participate in a wide range of community service projects, including reforestation plantings, trail maintenance, collecting food for the hungry, construction projects for community organizations and campgrounds, and more. Community service is another way to cultivate leadership and civic engagement.
– Favorite places we’ve adventured to over the last two years –
Mendocino 2021.
Kayaking, canoeing, crab fishing, hiking.
Point Reyes 2022.
Backpacking and beaches.
Kirkwood/ Sierras 2022.
Backcountry snow caves and camping, snowshoeing.
Yosemite 2021 & 2022.
Conservation service, hiking.
Pinnacles 2021.
Ridgeline hiking, cave walks, stargazing, condors.
Camp Wente 2021 & 2022.
A full week of Scout summer camp with canoeing, kayaking, fishing, geocaching, hiking, cooking, along with mammal study, chess, and more.
Mt. Diablo 2022.
Camping, cooking, rock climbing.
Camp Tamarancho.
Camping, fishing, swimming.
Enchanted Forest and Healdsburg, 2021 & 2022.
Reforestation and conservation service.
Earn Merit Badges
BSA has developed an amazing curriculum supporting scouts to learn from and earn over 130 merit badges, including outdoor skills, arts and crafts, career skills, STEM topics, culture and heritage, and more. Troop 236 promotes active engagement with a wide range of merit badge opportunities supported by adult merit badge counselors.
Achieve Eagle Scout and Other Rank Advancements
Troop 236 has supported over 230 scouts to earn Eagle Scout rank throughout its charter in the community. Our Eagle Scout program provides many routes to earn this traditional honor.