Now welcoming new scouts, K–5
Raise them
outdoors.
Cub Scout Pack 345 has been getting San Francisco kids up hills, around campfires and into the fog since 1984. Bring a kid, bring a grown-up, bring a friend.
What Pack 345 is
Kids and their grown-ups, who would rather be on a trail than in a gym.
Cub Scouting is a family program. Your scout doesn’t get dropped off — you come too. Dens of three to eight kids in the same grade meet once or twice a month, usually at somebody’s house. The whole pack gets together monthly to hand out badges, sing something ridiculous and plan the next adventure.
The most common question we get is whether you have to do all of it. You don’t. Miss a hike for a soccer game, skip a campout for a family trip — it’s fine. The calendar is an invitation, not an obligation. Read the FAQ
Up next
Come to any of these.
You don’t have to have joined to turn up. The whole 2026–27 year is published in advance — here’s what’s soonest.
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Aug 27Thu · 7–8pm
Committee meeting
Shaw's Ice Cream
Committee -
Aug 30Sun · 10am
Summer hike: Angel Island
Ferry over, then hike.
Hike -
Sep 11Fri · 6pm
First pack meeting
Parkside Square
Welcome, fall camp prep, and Raingutter Regatta kit distribution.
Pack meeting
A year in the Pack
What a Cub Scout year actually looks like
Outdoors
A city full of trailheads
Roughly one outing a month — Mori Point, Angel Island, Mount Sutro, San Bruno Mountain. Three pack campouts a year: Chabot, Camp Tamarancho, and the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Traditions
The Derby and the Regatta
A block of pine, a set of wheels, and a Friday night that families remember for years. Plus a Raingutter Regatta where the design awards matter more than the speed.
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Service
Doing a good turn
Collecting for food banks with Scouting for Food, cleaning up Ocean Beach, placing flags for veterans at the Presidio, and touring the city facilities that keep San Francisco running.
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Belonging
Every kid, every family
Boys and girls, kindergarten through 5th grade, from every neighborhood and background. If cost is a barrier, we quietly make it work. Nobody gets left out.
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A Pack 345 tradition
Fifty miles earns you a hiking stick.
Every mile a scout walks on a pack hike counts. At fifty of them, they get a Pack 345 hiking stick — the kind you keep in a closet for thirty years and then hand to your own kid.
It’s a small thing that says something true about how we run: the good stuff happens slowly, outdoors, one Saturday at a time.
Where we hikeGetting started
Joining takes about twenty minutes.
Scouts can join at any grade, at any point in the year. No previous scouting experience, and no scouting parents, required.
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Come to something first
A pack meeting, a hike, a campfire. No commitment — meet the families and see how we run.
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Fill out the application
One online form registers your scout with the BSA and with Pack 345.
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Pay your pack dues
Covers badges, awards, insurance and program costs. Need-based scholarships are available, confidentially.
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Get a uniform
We keep a free lending library of gently used uniform parts. Your Class B pack t-shirt comes with your first year of dues.
Everyone is welcome
“A Scout is Brave. We will continue to bravely face any form of discrimination that threatens the diversity and inclusivity of Pack 345.”
In 2013 — two years before the national organization changed course — the parents of Pack 345 wrote to the BSA National Council rejecting its ban on LGBTQ scouts and leaders, and adopted our own Statement of Non-Discrimination. We have reaffirmed it ever since.
There are no geographic, gender, race, religious or sexual-orientation restrictions on joining this pack. If the cost is a barrier for your family, tell us — that conversation stays completely confidential.
Read the full statement and its history
Photos from recent hikes, campouts and pack meetings.
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