Scouting in Tennessee

The Cherokee Area Council serves Scouts in Tennessee and Georgia, with the council office located in Chattanooga, Tennessee.[4] Active from 1914, programs offered include: Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venture, and Learning for Life. The council's Skymont Scout Reservation provides year-round and summer camping opportunities on the Cumberland Plateau.[5]

The council is divided into four districts:[4]

• John Ross District
• Sequoyah District
• Ocoee District
• Scout Reach

Skymont Scout Reservation, which consists of over 2,400 acres (9.7 km²) on the edge of the Cumberland Mountains Plateau, hosts Scouts BSA summer camps, Cub Scout family camps and high adventure activities throughout the summer and other camps during the year.[5] It is also home of the Talidandaganu' Lodge of the Order of the Arrow.[6]

The Chickasaw Council serves Scouts in the Memphis metropolitan area, including all of Shelby County (Tennessee) and Crittenden County (Arkansas), as well as fifteen counties in the Mississippi Delta, including districts that were merged from the Delta Area Council in 1993.

Kia Kima Scout Reservation, near Hardy, Arkansas on the South Fork Spring River, was founded in 1916 by Memphis philanthropist Bolton Smith. The reservation, which hosts Chickasaw Council summer camps, is split into three properties: Camp Osage, Camp Cherokee and the Ozark Venture Base. The original Kia Kima facilities (pre-1963) have been restored and maintained as Old Kia Kima by a separate non-profit group.

Camp Currier, Eudora, Mississippi, near Memphis, was founded in 1925 to host weekend camping and training events throughout the year. (The more remote Kia Kima operated only during the summer for most of its history.)

The Great Smoky Mountain Council serves 21 East Tennessee counties, and is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The Middle Tennessee Council serves 37 Middle Tennessee counties, and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.

Council office in Johnson City

The Sequoyah Council serves Scouts in Northeast Tennessee and Virginia.

• Breaks District
• Buffalo Mountain District
• Nolachuckey District
• Overmountain District
• Wilderness Road District

"Camp Davy Crockett", near Rogersville, Tennessee, was founded in 1972.

The Four Rivers District of the Louisville, Kentucky-based Lincoln Heritage Council includes BSA units in South Fulton, Tennessee, located on the state border across from Fulton, Kentucky.

Headquartered in Jackson, the West Tennessee Area Council (WTAC) serves Scouts in all Tennessee counties west of the Tennessee River except for Shelby County (Chickasaw Council).

• Big Hatchie District
• Central District
• Davy Crockett District
• Bedford Forrest District
• Shiloh District

Camp Mack Morris in Camden, Tennessee serves as the primary camping facility for the WTAC and has been in continuous operation since 1946. It is also the home of Ittawamba Lodge 235 of the Order of the Arrow.[7]

See Scouting in Georgia for complete information. This council serves girls in Polk County, Tennessee

Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia

Girl Scouts Heart of the South was established on June 1, 2008 by the merger of Girl Scouts of Northeast Mississippi, Girl Scout Council of Northwest Mississippi, Girl Scout Council of The Mid-South, and Reelfoot Girl Scout Council. It serves 6,000 girls and has 2,000 adult volunteers in west Tennessee, north Mississippi and Crittenden County, Arkansas.[8]

Headquarters: Memphis, Tennessee

Camps:

• Kamp Kiwani is 1,250 acres (510 ha) including a 70-acre (28 ha) lake in Middleton, Tennessee[9]
• Camp Tik-A-Witha is 310 acres (130 ha) with a 20 acres (8.1 ha) lake in Van Vleet, Chickasaw County, Mississippi next to the Tombigbee National Forest.[10]
• Camp Fisherville is 72 acres (29 ha) in Fisherville, Tennessee[11]
• Girl Scout Program/Training Center in Memphis, Tennessee

Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee serves over 14,000 girls and has 7,000 adult volunteers in 39 Tennessee counties. Nashville had its first troop in 1917 and Nashville Girl Scout Council was chartered in 1926. In 1958 a reorganization led to Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council covering 20 counties in Tennessee and southern Kentucky. In 2006 a new realignment led to the current larger council.[12]

Headquarters: Nashville, Tennessee

Camps:

• Camp Holloway is 76 acres (31 ha) in Millersville, Tennessee, and established in 1951 as a camp for "Negro girl scouts"; it now serves all girls. It is named for Josephine Holloway who founded the first official African-American Girl Scout troop in Nashville in 1942 (some 18 years after establishing one unofficially and 9 years after first seeking official permission).[13][14]
• Camp Nee Kah Nah is 354 acres (143 ha) in Gainesboro, Tennessee. Its name derives from "friendship crossing" in Cherokee.
• Camp Piedmont is 29 acres (12 ha) in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
• Camp Sycamore Hills is 742 acres (300 ha) in Ashland City, Tennessee. It was established in 1959.

Formed by the merger of Girl Scouts of the Appalachian Council, Girl Scouts of Tanasi Council, and Girl Scouts of Moccasin Bend Council. This council covers 46 counties in southwest Virginia, east Tennessee, and north Georgia and has service centers in Johnson City, Tennessee, Knoxville, and Chattanooga.[15]

Camps:[16]

• Camp Wildwood in Johnson City, Tennessee is 12 acres (4.9 ha) owned by the Harris Foundation but for the use of the Girl Scouts.
• Camp Tanasi covers 461 acres (187 ha) on Norris Lake near Andersonville
• Camp Adahi covers 900 acres (360 ha) on Lookout Mountain in Georgia and includes 10 acres (4.0 ha) lake. It was acquired in 1965.

Former camps:

• Camp Sky-Wa-Mo in Bluff City, Tennessee. Put on the market in September 2012.[17]
• Camp Windy Knob in Greenville, Tennessee
• Warren-Kelly Memorial Center for Girls("The Hut") in Big Stone Gap, Virginia