Cub Scouts and their families hiking a wooded trail together

Cary, North Carolina · Cardinal District

Adventure starts
on a Monday night.

Cub Scout Pack 232 gets Cary kids outdoors — camping, building, racing pinewood cars, and figuring out what they are capable of. Boys and girls, kindergarten through 5th grade.

Come to a Meeting What we actually do

Meetings are open. No signup, no uniform, no commitment on your first night.

Grades K–5

Open to boys and girls

Mondays 7:00 – 8:00 PM

During the school year

Cary Presbyterian Church

Cary, NC

What Cub Scouts is

Friendships, skills, and time outdoors

Cub Scouts is the kindergarten-through-fifth-grade program of Scouting America — a group of local families getting their kids outside, teaching them things to be good at, and building friendships that carry into the rest of the week.

Three Cub Scouts looking out from the door of their tent at a campout

Outdoors, on purpose

Campouts, hikes, fishing, and cooking over a fire. For a lot of our Scouts this is the first time they have slept in a tent — and the reason they keep coming back.

most families had never camped before joining

A parent and a Cub Scout building a birdhouse together at a campsite

Skills that stick

Knots, first aid, fire safety, using a map, cooking a meal, standing up in front of a room. Small competences that add up to a kid who believes they can handle things.

Friends who show up

A Scout sees the same six or seven kids every Monday for years — building pinewood cars, pitching tents, waiting in line for the rain gutter regatta. That is where the friendships come from.

Doing a Good Turn

Food drives, park cleanups, helping the church that charters us. Doing a Good Turn is just part of how Scouting works, not a special assignment layered on top.

Find your den

One den for every grade

Your child joins the den that matches their grade in school, and moves up one rank each year. Six years, six ranks, kindergarten to crossover.

Each rank has its own color — you'll see a lot of these neckerchiefs

The year, roughly

What a year in Pack 232 looks like

Weekly meetings are the backbone. These are the events kids remember.

ask any Scout which one is their favorite

Pinewood Derby
Every winter
Every Scout gets a block of pine, four wheels, and four nails. What comes out the other side is a race car, a Saturday with a parent, and a lot of shouting.
Blue & Gold Banquet
Every February
The pack's birthday dinner. Rank awards, a shared meal, and the night the Arrow of Light Scouts cross over to a troop.
Family Campouts
Fall and spring
Whole-family weekends outdoors. Parents come along, siblings are welcome, and nobody is expected to own fancy gear on day one.
Raingutter Regatta
Every spring
Rig a tiny styrofoam boat with a sail, then race it down a water-filled rain gutter powered by nothing but lung capacity. Undignified and extremely popular.
Service Projects
Throughout the year
Food drives, park cleanups, and helping the church that charters us. Doing a Good Turn is just a regular part of what Scouts do.
Rock Climbing at TRC
A few times a year
A pack outing to Triangle Rock Club. Ropes, harnesses, and staff on hand — no experience needed, and it is usually the loudest room in the building.

Parent partnership

You're in this too

Cub Scouting is not a drop-off activity. However your family does it, you are building it alongside your kid, not just delivering them to it.

You stay
For Lions, staying is built into the program. In older dens a parent does not have to stay every week, though most do — the meetings are more fun than the alternative.
You take part
Parents build pinewood cars, tie knots, and get muddy on campouts right alongside their kids. Nobody is standing on the sideline with a coffee.
You learn too
A lot of us had never pitched a tent or tied a bowline before joining. Whatever your Scout is learning that year, chances are you are learning it too.

half the adults here learned this stuff for the first time right alongside their kid

Cub Scouts and their parents together in matching pack shirts — Parents in it, not just watching

We showed up not knowing anybody and not owning a single piece of camping gear. By the spring campout our whole family had somewhere to be on a Saturday.

A Pack 232 parent

Before you come

What happens on your first Monday

Showing up somewhere new with your kid is the hard part. Here is exactly how the hour goes, so none of it is a surprise.

No uniform needed. Come in whatever your child is already wearing — plenty of families visit for the first couple of weeks before buying a shirt.

A den of uniformed Cub Scouts doing a science activity around a table — A Monday night den meeting

1
Park in the front lot
Cary Presbyterian Church is at 614 Griffis Street. Come a few minutes before 7:00 PM so you are not walking in cold.
2
Someone will find you
We meet in the Children's Center. Tell them what grade your child is in and they will walk you straight to that den — you do not have to work out where to go on your own.
3
Your Scout joins in
A game, a craft, a skill — whatever the den is doing that night. Visitors take part like everybody else.
4
You stay and watch
Ask the leaders anything. Talk to the other parents, who were all new once and will tell you the truth about it.
5
You go home and think about it
Nothing to sign, nothing to pay, nothing to decide on the night. Come back next Monday if it felt right.

Come see a meeting.

We meet mondays from 7:00 – 8:00 PM at Cary Presbyterian Church. Meetings are open — turn up, look around, decide later.

How to join Ask us a question

Adventure starts
on a Monday night.