Climbing merit badge at 8000 ft (2400 m)

Climbing merit badge at 8000 ft (2400 m)

Welcome to Adventure!

Troop 97 50th Anniversary Neckerchief

Colorado Rocky Mountain Scouting
Troop 97 BSA

Weekend campout at 11 000 ft (3300 m)

Weekend campout at 11 000 ft (3300 m)

Our site is packed with useful ideas
designed to help and inform:

  • the Scouts, leaders, and families of our troop
  • potential or future members of our troop
  • the Scouts and leaders of other BSA units
  • Scouts and leaders from around the world
  • anyone else interested in Scouting or Troop 97

What would you like to know?

** Flyer for new 12th Edition of Boy Scout Handbook **

Troop 97, in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, is more than double the size of the average BSA troop, and our Scouts earn Eagle Scout (the BSA's highest award) at almost 8 times the BSA average.

  • Troop 97 is one of about 20 troops in the
  • Cache La Poudre District, which is one of nine districts in the
  • Longs Peak Council, which is one of over 300 local Councils of the
  • Boy Scouts of America (BSA), which is one of about 200 National Scout Organization members of the
  • World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM)
    [For more information about the surprising variety of Scouting organizations around the world, see our World Scouting page.]

Take a look around.
Please share your comments, suggestions, or needs with us.
We want to hear from you!

And we enjoy hearing from Scouts and leaders from around the world, whether you are a scout, speider, spejder, éclaireur, pfadfinder, skaut, verkenner, escoteiro, explorador, skáta, cserkész, esploratori, scaut, pramuka, proskopou,...

If you have a problem viewing anything, please let us know specifically what you couldn't see, so we can correct it. Thanks.

And thanks for stopping by! Come back again to see what's new.

On Deck in the British Virgin Islands

On Deck in the British Virgin Islands

Troop 97 Brochure

Información sobre Tropa 97 y sobre Scouting en espańol

Last Revised: 3 July 2009
Copyright © 1996—2009 by Troop 97 BSA
Online since February 1996

Information about our website and web policies

Canoeing under the Midnight Sun—Yukon River, Canada, near the Arctic Circle

Canoeing under the Midnight Sun:
Yukon River, Canada, near the Arctic Circle

Approvals & Recognitions

Our website is Cybersitter approved as a "Family Friendly" website, and is ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association) rated as being free of foul language, nudity or sex, violence, and gambling, drugs, and alcohol.

Free Speech Online/Blue Ribbon Campaign CYBERsitter Approved Web Site Labeled with ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association)

Lord Baden-Powell Four-Fleur Award StudySphere Award of Excellence StudyWeb Academic Excellence Award Top 100 Scout Site

NOTE—Our Information Page provides details about the structure and policies of our website, gives more details about our approvals and recognitions, and contains links to the BSA's legal issues website and to the Scouting Legal Defense Fund webpage showing which United Ways have stopped supporting Scouting. It also lists what we believe are the characteristics of a good website.

   

Troop 97 Home Website Map Alphabetical Site Index

Valid XHTML 1.0!Valid CSS!

Locations of visitors to this page since 3Dec08