Cub Scout Pack 3286

02/03/2026

Another great Pinewood Derby in the books. The scouts showed up with some amazing looking cars and a great time was had by all. Thank you troops 257 and 6257 for hosting.

10/26/2025

October is always a favorite pack meeting as we gather in the park in our Halloween costumes for a firepit, festive games and some trick or treating. A great way to get some mileage out of those costumes, be outside together and -as always - have some fun! 🎃👻💀

10/17/2025

Well done scouts. Your voices are being heard and you’ve seen that you too can impact your community.

Hosting Scouts at City Hall is my favorite! They had two suggestions for making their city better:

1. Make it safe to cross the street to walk to school. I couldn’t agree more! We talked about our upcoming Safe Streets For All plan and the need to update our traffic calming policy.

2. No wood chips on the playground. They get in your shoes and not good for wheelchairs. I’m going to have to look into this one. I know some of our parks have moved away from wood chips but I’m not sure if we plan to do that citywide. We did talk about the PlaybookOP process and how we plan long term including for park design.

Kudos to these kiddos for learning to be great citizens.

EDIT/UPDATE answer on wood chips:
Long-term our plan is to switch as many as possible to the artificial turf. That said, some playgrounds will remain with wood chips based on their location within the floodplain. For example, Nall Hills brand new playground will likely always be woodchips because that area is prone to flooding.

These high-water events wash away the wood chips, which are then easily replaced. In comparison, high water events would destroy the artificial turf, which would then take some significant time and money to replace. Using the new Nall Hills playground as an example, turf for that area would be approximately $40,000, and it has been underwater three times in the last two years.

As a note, wood chips used on playgrounds are not actually woodchips, but instead a product called Engineered Wood Fiber. This natural material is a safe, accessible option for playgrounds that, when washed away in a storm, will naturally decompose in the streams.

Of the nine playgrounds we are replacing in 2025, only two will remain engineered wood fiber.

10/16/2025

Thank you council member Melissa Cheatham for speaking with our Webelos scouts and teaching them about city government. They loved doing the mock council meeting even though they couldn’t pass an official candy for the city.

10/04/2025

Last night Pack 3286 had one of our biggest Fall Family Campouts to date with 80+ scouts and their family members! We welcome many new scouts and their families to their first-ever campout where they had a chance to get to know the pack better. After setting up our tents, we ate a meal together, the kids ran and played, and we had an awesome campfire program with each den performing a skit and a few fun songs and stories from the Cubmaster. After s'mores it was bedtime under the stars. We woke up bright and early for pancakes and a hike. Great campout!

09/28/2025

Our Webelo and Arrow of Light dens had an awesome weekend exploring Bartle, which is the summer camp they'll attend once crossing over. We camped on Friday night and the scouts made us a delicious meal, completing one of their adventure requirements. Then they woke up Saturday and had an action-packed day exploring some of the many exciting things Bartle has to offer: watching a life flight helicopter land and having the opportunity to sit inside it as well as several first responders on site with their vehicles. From there, they were able to make rockets and shoot them high into the air, watch a demo with the police K-9 unit, shoot BB's and sling shots, learn First Aid, go fishing and participate in a campfire. What a day! We all had fun camping in the beautiful fall weather, and capped it off with a team effort to rescue a boomerang from a tree.

05/10/2025

We had perfect weather - 75 and sunny - for the annual Spring Family Campout last night. This is a favorite bookend event for the Scouts to close out the year. We all cook and enjoy dinner and a campfire together where Scouts tell jokes and perform impromptu skits before tucking in and sleeping to the sounds of owls and crickets and coyotes. Alongside the more formal events throughout the year, this one is a casual opportunity for the Scouts to play outside, practice setting up camp and observe campfire safety, and spend time with the pack. Great turnout, pack 3286!

04/25/2025

Congratulations, Pack 3286! We celebrated together as each of our scouts and their dens ranked up this evening, having completed all of their requirements and adventures. The scouts worked hard all year long to achieve their new ranks. We’re all proud of you!

04/12/2025

The Scouts did an amazing job picking up trash along the Indian Creek trail this morning during our annual Spring Stream Clean. Scouts love the opportunity to be outside and the “treasure hunt” of finding trash to pickup, and it’s a great opportunity for them to see the impact they can have on their community as a group as well as how they can take pride in helping to keep the spaces we all share clean.

03/26/2025

The Scouts received oodles of awards at our pack meeting for all their hard work in the past few months, as well as prizes for top sellers of Pancake Breakfast tickets and a raffle! We were then joined by Operation Wildlife and able to see and learn about a red tailed hawk and a great Horned owl, as well as a California king snake!

03/03/2025

We had our annual Pancake Breakfast this weekend, and a big thank you to everyone who came out to support our pack! As the primary fundraiser for the pack, this fun yearly event helps support our pack in so many ways. The Scouts always enjoy this event, which gives them the opportunity to participate in the event from setup, to cooking and serving, to clean up and greeting visitors. It’s safe to say every scout in our pack can flip a mean pancake! We’re so grateful for our community and their support.

02/20/2025