SCOUTS: MORE THAN JUST CAMPING

Rose Valley Troop 272 would like to welcome any boys, especially 5th and 6th graders, to come and see what scouting is all about. More than just camping, we learn wilderness survival skills, first aid, leadership skills, graphic arts and much more.

Welcome to Troop 272!

Troop 272 has been serving Rose Valley, PA and neighboring communities since 1953. We are chartered by the Rose Valley Folk, who provide us with the Old Mill in Rose Valley for our weekly troop and Patrol Leader Council meetings on most Wednesday nights throughout the year. In return, the troop performs many service projects for Rose Valley and the surrounding communities, including picking up trash along Rose Valley Road four times a year through PennDOT’s Adopt-A-Highway program.

We are also known as the Troop that sells the Christmas trees each December at the corner of Brookhaven and Rose Valley Roads. This is our big fund-raiser and helps to pay for all the activities we do throughout the year.

We are proud of our youth leadership development; Troop 272 annually sends Scouts to Troop-level, Council-level, and National-level youth leadership development training programs, and regularly our Scouts are invited back as staff members in subsequent years. We are especially proud of our 100+ Eagle Scouts!

But mostly, Troop 272 is FUN! Every year, our Scouts plan a new and diverse calendar of trips and activities. In recent years we have gone camping, hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, caving, swimming, canoeing, sailing, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, cycling, mountain biking, winter camping, downhill and cross-country skiing, and done many other fun and challenging activities. We have also participated in District Klondikes (Scout skills competitions), and District and National Scout Jamborees. We have overnighted on the battleship U.S.S. New Jersey and the sloop-of-war sailing ship U.S.S. Constellation. We have gone to places like Resica Falls, Rodney Scout Reservation on the Chesapeake Bay, Cape May, Gettysburg, Antietam, West Point, New York City, Baltimore, Knife’s Edge, Pine Grove Furnace, the Appalachian Trail, Hawk Mountain, Elk Mountain, the White Mountains in New Hampshire, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, and many other interesting places. You can see the activities and trips we have planned for this year by checking out our Troop calendar

For more information about our troop, please contact Scoutmaster John Traverso at John.Traverso @ gmail.com