2026 Wood Badge

Session 1: April 24th, 2026 @ 7:00am ET -  April 26th, 2026 @ 5:30pm ET
Session 2: May 16th, 2026 @ 7:00am ET - May 17th, 2026 @ 4:30pm ET
*Staff will be required to arrive on May 15th @ 7:00am ET

Location: Camp Buffalo

Cost:
Wood Badge Participant: $350.00
Staff (By Invitation Only): $200.00 

*When registering, you will Only Register for Session 1.
**Both Sessions are Required, and are included in the registration cost.

Why do you want to go to Wood Badge?

You want to participate in a Wood Badge course because of things you will learn and do. Here are some of the benefits:

Stronger units. You will make your Scouting unit — and your sons’ and daughters’ units — stronger.

What and why of Scouting. You will have a deeper understanding of what Scouting is and why we do it.

Experience. You will learn and experience things that will stay with you in Scouting and the rest of your life.

Fun. You will have fun and you will meet interesting people.

Other groups. You will make your other groups, like work, church, even family, stronger.

Wood Badge is here for you! This is a Leadership training course for adult leaders at all levels of Scouting. This course will help you better understand how all the Scouting programs tie together. It will provide you with many useful leadership tools to help enable our youth to have the best possible Scouting experience. There is no better time to attend a Wood Badge course and make a difference in your unit than when you are a Cub Scout Leader.

Have you heard of “The Ticket” and wondered what it is? The ticket is a group of five goals you set for yourself to do after course, to improve your unit. You learn more about this on the course.

Purpose of Wood Badge

The purpose of Wood Badge is to develop skilled leaders who can strengthen Scouting units in achieving the mission of the Boy Scouts of America. When we accomplish the mission of Scouting, we do it in the units. Therefore, the short form of the purpose is, the purpose of Wood Badge is to strengthen units.