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Southwest Florida Council

Local council of the Boy Scouts of America

Field	Value
name	Southwest Florida Council
image	Southwest Florida Council CSP.png
type	council
owner	Boy Scouts of America
location	Fort Myers, Florida
country	United States
coords	26.5827801,-81.8762809
f-date	1968
chiefscouttitle	President
chiefscouttitle2	Council Commissioner
chiefscouttitle3	Scout Executive
chiefscout3	Charles Vonderheid
website	http://www.swflcouncilbsa.org

|f-date=1968 Southwest Florida Council serves Charlotte, Collier, Lee, Manatee, Sarasota and parts of DeSoto and Hendry counties. The Southwest Florida Council was chartered in July 1968, and based on membership and units, it ranks 46th out of 306 councils in the United States. The Southwest Florida Council is a geographic area divided into four districts: Alligator, Manatee, Panther, and Two Rivers. The council has an executive board of volunteers and a staff of professionals.

The council accomplishes its mission by making its program available to chartered organizations; existing organizations that have compatible goals. These groups include religious, educational, civic fraternal, business, labor, and governmental bodies. The council supports chartered organizations by providing materials and certain facilities, such as camps. The chartered organizations organize the packs and troops.

Organization

The Southwest Florida Council consists of four localized districts:

Alligator District
Manatee District
Panther District
Two Rivers District

Camps

Price-Sanders Scout Reservation

The Price-Sanders Scout Reservation (PSSR) is a section of land one mile wide and two miles deep (1280 acres), located at the northeast corner of the Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area. The land has been rented from the Florida FWC since the council was founded in 1968. Since then, approximately $2 million has been invested by the council into the site.

Dr. Franklin Miles Camp

Dr. Franklin Miles Camp, or Camp Miles, is the primary camp located on the Price-Sanders Scout Reservation. The camp has numerous resources, including "a central dining hall, individual troop campsites, a health lodge, a trading post, archery, rifle and shotgun ranges, a chapel by the lake, and ecology lodge, a central heated shower facility, a training lodge, a swimming pool, [and] a boating island for aquatics." The camp also contains a COPE Course and climbing wall. There are nine troop campsites, named after Native American tribes: Apache, Cherokee, Mohawk, Calusa, Seminole, Delaware, Delasioux (named for being between Delaware and Sioux), Sioux, and Miccosukee.

Camp Gannet / Cub Scout Family Camp

Camp Gannet (more commonly known as the Cub Scout Family Camp) is a Cub Scout campground. It features a circle of twelve campsites surrounding a central shower and bathroom building. Five of these sites have water and electric hookups for RVs. The camp shares many resources with its parent camp, Camp Miles, including the swimming pool and ranges.

Camp Flying Eagle

Camp Flying Eagle was founded in 1929. Camp Flying Eagle is located in near Bradenton, Florida.

Osceola Lodge (Order of the Arrow)

|f-date=1968 Osceola Lodge 564 is one of eight Order of the Arrow Lodges in Section E-5 formally known as S-4 (all of Florida except the Panhandle, and south Georgia). Osceola Lodge was founded in 1968. ;Chapters

Hvlpatah Tastanagi Chapter
Oscen Tustenuggee Chapter
Tukosee Mathla Chapter
Yaha Hajo Chapter

References

"SWFL Council Staff Directory". Boy Scouts of America.
"Home".
"Conceptual Management Plan for Cecil M. Webb Wildlife Management Area". Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
"Camp Miles". Boy Scouts of America.
"Map of Camp Miles". OpenStreetMap Foundation.
"Camps and Camping". Boy Scouts of America.
"Oscelola 564".

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