Badges celebrating outdoor skills and exploration. Includes hiking, camping, orienteering, paddling, horseback riding, caving, geocaching, and general adventure activities.
- Animals: Badges that explore specific animals, species groups, and wildlife behavior. Includes animal identification, habitats, adaptations, and learning about creatures from insects to mammals.
- Camp Skills: Badges that build practical skills for safe and successful camping. Includes fire building, knots, campsite setup, outdoor cooking, water purification, shelter basics, and Leave No Trace principles.
- Conservation: Badges about protecting natural spaces and caring for the planet. Includes conservation projects, land stewardship, endangered species awareness, and responsible outdoor practices.
- Habitats: Badges focused on where plants and animals live and how ecosystems work. Includes forests, oceans, wetlands, deserts, grasslands, and the interconnected relationships within them.
- Hiking: Badges centered on hiking, trail exploration, and safe movement through natural environments. Includes day hikes, backpacking basics, trail etiquette, pacing, and route planning.
- Navigation: Badges that teach youth how to find their way outdoors using maps, compasses, GPS, and natural navigation. Includes orienteering, geocaching, map reading, trail markers, and basic wayfinding.
- Outdoor Adventure: Badges focused on outdoor adventures and recreational experiences. Includes letterboxing, geocaching, horseback riding, tree climbing, ziplining, challenge courses, water adventures, and other fun outdoor explorations.
- Plant Life: Badges centered on how plants grow and the ecosystems they create. Includes gardening, trees, flowers, seeds, plant care, and exploring the plant‑based environments that support life on Earth.
The Badge Archive 