"Scouting is a game with a purpose."

-- Robert Baden-Powell, 1933

Cub scouting is a year-round, family-based, outdoor activityprogram for boys in 1st through 5th grade. Cub Scouts means“doing.” Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the boys actively doing things. These activities help achieve the aims of Scouting: character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness.

Many of those activities happen right in the den and the Pack. Cub Scout packs are built up from Tiger, Wolf, Bear and Webelos dens, with from 6 to 8 boys -- all the same age -- in each den. (First graders are Tigers, Second graders are Wolves, and Third graders are Bears. Webelos are Fourth and Fifth graders. New Scouts can enter at any level -- and every level is fun!) In each den, adult leaders mix fun activities with age appropriate achievment plans for each rank.

Boys love to go camping and hiking with their friends, and Scouting is built around the outdoors. Two campouts in the the early Cub years quickly turns into four or more campouts for Webelos, as the Scouts build on their ever widening base of ourdoor skills. Later on, Boy Scouts camp at least once a month, progressing to high adventure backcountry trips in their mid teens.

Boys become ever more capable young leaders along the way: teaching each other in Webelos, running their own "Patrols" around age thirteen, and trekking as a group without adlts at Philmont not long therafter.