Editing Scouting in Colorado (section)

=====Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch=====
[[File:BP Boot Print - Tahosa.jpg|thumb|[[B-P's footprint|BP Boot Print]] - Peaceful Valley]]
''Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch (PV)'' is the main camping location of the Greater Colorado Council of the [[Boy Scouts of America]].  The camp, built in the 1960s by the Army Corps of Engineers, was a replacement to the original camp, [[Camp Tahosa]].  The camp is located just outside [[Elbert, Colorado]].

Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch is home to three separate camps: Camp Cris Dobbins; Camp Cortland Dietler; and Magness Adventure Camp.  Like Tahosa, Peaceful Valley also hosted a troop-run camp also called EaglePoint; however, as of 2009, EaglePoint is defunct (the EaglePoint program at Tahosa is still active, though).  Additionally, in 2005, the Boy Scouts of America Denver Area Council acquired a large section of land adjacent to Peaceful Valley, and is the location of their Magness Adventure Camp for Cub Scouts.

Facilities include the Travis Shooting Sports Facility, which contains an Olympic shotgun shooting range, the Gates Aquatic Center, a horse corral, BB Gun range, two lakes, and the three above mentioned camps. The camp also has a bronze boot print casts of [[Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell|Robert Baden Powell]] located near the main camp office.

Camp Cris Dobbins is the flagship camp of Peaceful Valley.  The camp is home to The Travis Shooting Facility, which includes an Olympic shotgun range, the million dollar Gates Aquatic Center, a dining hall which underwent a nearly twelve million dollar renovation and expansion in 2019, and over twenty campsites.  The camp, with a capacity of around 700 campers, offers dozens of merit badges and programs for scouts of all ages.

Camp Dietler, founded in 1988 by William Eck, is a patrol style summer camp experience.  While merit badges are offered, the main focus is on the patrol method.  This is carried out through patrol cooking, events determined by the patrol leader's council, and a choice of two high adventure outposts.  The camp is named for Cortlandt Dietler, who donated the money to build the camp commissary.

Magness Adventure Camp is the Denver Area Council's [[Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scouting]] camp.  The camp has three shelters, each with a campsite housing eighty tents.  The program includes lake activities, a BB Gun range, an archery range, recently added a slingshot paint ball range and a firewatch tower that overlooks Elbert County.  The camp is also available for rental by outside groups, and is often frequented by groups such as Denver's High School [[ROTC]] and girls groups from [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].