Pathfinders

Register Today! Classes fill up quickly!

 

Week 1 - June 9 - 13, 2025

 

Week 2 - June 16 - 20, 2025

 

Check - in begins at 8:00am each day and classes will begin no later than 9:00am. All classes will end at 4:00pm every day, unless otherwise stated by your Instructor. Parents please arrive promptly at 4:00pm to pick up your scout(s).

 

Pathfinders are on the Adventure to Eagle by earning a Merit Badge a Day! Spend the day on the shores of Lake Lanier at Scoutland, then return home each night. Enjoy one day or multiple days earning merit badges. Some Merit Badges have prerequisites for completion or other requirements that may not be completed at Pathfinders. Scouts MUST READ and BRING their merit books to class. Merit Badge books are available at the Jefferson Service Center. Call 706.693.2446 for purchases. Print and bring a copy of the workbook which can be found at http://usscouts.org/mb/worksheets/list.asp for the best experience at Pathfinders. This year,every Scout will recieve a commemorative patch! Scouts may bring their own sack lunch or preorder a lunch provided. That lunch includes: 2 slices of pizza (pepperoni or cheese), 1 bag of chips, 1 bottle of water, and a dessert snack for $12/day. Purchase lunch for all week for $50 (Save $10).

 

What your Scout should bring each day:

 

• Sunscreen
• Bug repellant
• Hat
• Refillable water bottle
• Sack lunch
• "Class B uniform" Scout T-Shirt and any shorts
• You must Bring your completed and filled out BSA Health Forms A & B with you.

 

 

2025 Merit Badges Offered at Pathfinders!

• Animation
• Archaeology
• Archery
• Auto Maintenance
• Basketry
• Bird Study
• Canoeing
• Chemistry
• Chess
• Citizenship in the Community (Pre-req 2a, 3a, 3b, Prep for 8)
• Citizenship in the Nation (Pre-req 5,8)
• Citizenship in the World (Pre-req 3a, 3b)
• Communication
• Cooking (Pre-req 2ab)
• Crime Prevention and Fingerprinting (2 for the price of 1!)
• Enterpreneurship (Pre-req 3)
• First Aid (Pre-req 5b)
• Fish & Wildlife Management
• Fishing
• Fly Fishing
• Forestry
• Insect Study
• Leatherwork
• Lifesaving
• Mammal Study
• Motorboating 
• Moviemaking
• Photography
• Pioneering
• Public Speaking
• Radio
• Rifle
• Salesmanship
• Search & Rescue
• Small Boat Sailing
• Sustainability
• Swimming
• Textiles (Pre-req 2a, 3)
• Veterinary Medicine
• Water Sports
• Welding
• Wood Carving (Must have earned Totin' Chip prior to Class)
• Woodworking

 

Early Bird registration discount ends on May 26th! 

 

 

Pathfinders Week 1 Classes 

 

Pathfinders Week 2 Classes

 

 

CAMP FEES ARE TRANSFERABLE-BUT NOT REFUNDABLE.

If you have to cancel or change your mind a credit can be applied upon approval to your account. That credit can be used towards your next scouting event. If you are unable to make it and need to cancel please email to Heather Sisk in the camping department. Youth asked to leave camp for disciplinary reasons will not receive a refund.

*There is a 3.5% convenience charge for online credit card payments.

 

Pathfinders needs your help! Click here to be a Merit Badge Counselor!

 

 

To learn how to Print Blue cards after completing Pathfinders please click here. Please allow 2 weeks following classes for completion data to be entered.