| Los Padres Council (#053) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 | |||
| Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
| Headquarters | Santa Barbara, California | ||
| Country | United States | ||
| Founded | 1915 | ||
|
| |||
| Website www | |||
 Scouting portal | |||
The Los Padres Council was founded in 1917 as the Santa Barbara Council. The SBC changed its name in 1929 to the Mission Council and stayed that way until 1994.
History
In 1994, the Santa Lucia Area Council merged with the Mission Council to form the Los Padres Council. The Santa Lucia Area Council (#056) was founded in 1933, as the San Luis Obispo County Council. The Central Coast Counties council (#025), founded in 1922 merged into Santa Barbara in 1924.
Organization
- Pacific Coast District
- Cuesta District
Camps
- Rancho Alegre
- Camp Rancho Alegre was severely damaged by the Whittier Fire in 2017 and as of 2020 is being rebuilt.
Order of the Arrow
- Chumash Lodge #90
See also
References
- Hook, James; Franck, Dave; Austin, Steve (1982). An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation.
- "Rancho Alegre". Archived from the original on June 3, 2012.
- "Rancho Alegre Reconstruction".
- "WWW Chumash Lodge 90".
| Scouting in the United States | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |||||||||||||||