Pack 614 Area Scouting Resources

As leaders, educators or parents, we're always looking for interesting thigs to do with our kids. This list of destinations is designed to be a resource for you to find new ideas of things to do with your kids, whether they're Girl, Boy or Cub Scouts, a YMCA group, or a school class.

This list is in constant evolution. Please let us know what places you have visited, who you contacted, and what you did so it can be included for others, or just give us your ideas for something you'd like to see added!

Most of these destinations are in the Murrieta/Temecula Valley, but some can be found in San Diego, San Bernadino, Orange and the greater Riverside County areas as well.

Bates Nut Farm
15954 Woods Valley Road
Valley Center
760-749-3333
Bates Nut Farm hosts an annual Autumn Festival, with scarecrow and pumpkin carving contests, hay rides, and country crafts. They have a number of shops on the farm, as well as livestock and a petting zoo. Nice people, and they're happy to work with scouts!

Miramar Marine Corps Air Station
San Diego
619-577-1011 (Public Affairs Office)
These folks were a dream to work with, and very willing to go out of their way to accomodate our Scouts. Our tour started with a (big!) box lunch. One $3 meal could have easily served two people. Next, a visit to the airfield crash and rescue unit included demonstrations of their fire fighting vehicles and equipment. Finally, a tour of one of the fighter squadrons, with a close up walk around of an F/A-18 Hornet conducted by one of the pilots. Reserve squadrons train the first weekend of the month, so if you want to tour a squadron you should request your tour for that Saturday. Our event lasted from 11:30 to 2 and was extremely well received by the boys!

March Field Air Museum
The March Field Museum Foundation has group tours available. The cost for Scouts is $4 for adults and $1 for boys. The tour includes a short film about the history of March Field followed by a guided tour of the exhibits by a Foundation volunteer.
Contact Todd Bothel, the "Collections Manager for Tours and Exhibits".

B-D Macadamia Nut Farm
10626 Cerveza Drive
Escondido
760-749-8856

Rancho Llama Mia
38445 Overview Drive
Temecula
909-676-6163

Radical Reptiles and Friends
Ben Hian - 760-753-6790

Big Kahuna's Wild Theme Party Rentals
619-574-0779

LEAF
29001 Bastion Ave.
Lake Elsinore
909-674-0618
This is the Lake Elsinore Animal Friends, an animal rescue organization.

Baskin Robbins
26491 Ynez Road
Temecula
909-695-6860
Tell me what Cub Scout wouldn't like to tour an ice cream shop?

Olivera's Cake Gallery
25030 Hitchcock
Murrieta
909-698-4198

French Valley Airport

Perris Valley Train Museum
Orange Empire Rail Museum
909-657-2605
The museum hosts a fall fair every year with hay rides on their working trains, and a Christmas event with Santa. Both fill up fast, so call well ahead! During the rest of the year, there are working and static trains, and a gift shop. The museum itself is free, and for a small donation you can ride aboard the working trolleys and trains that the museum restores and operates.

Mobely Apiaries - Beekeeper
31705 Central
Wildomar
909-678-3811

Chocolate Florist
28671 Front St
Temecula
909-699-4402

Western Pines - X-Mas Tree Farm
26975 Murrieta Road
Romoland
909-679-4116

Kids Party - Dizzy Darla, Clown
600-0060

Jean's Channel Cats
28393 Somers Road
Murrieta
909-679-6562
This is a fun place to take your kids for some guaranteed fish-catching! They have everything you need, from poles to bait to the fish themselves!

Double Eagle Golf Center
41240 Date
Murrieta
909-698-3555

Murietta Valley Golf Range
24515 Washington
Murrieta
909-698-8001

Tumble Jungle
41735 Winchester
Temecula
909-694-1819

Dairy Queen
Murrieta
909-677-6565

Werner Custom Design Leather Crafts
42066 Avenida Alverado
Temecula
909-676-0021

Temecula Valley Museum
41963 Moreno Road
Temecula
909-676-0021
A museum with exhibits of the natural and political history of the valley. These folks were just getting ready to open last year when I contacted them, but it sounded like a great place to go!

The Californian
28765 Single Oak Drive
Temecula
909-676-4315

Press Enterprise
27740 Jefferson
Temecula
909-674-0724

Hicard Ranch
Avenida La Cresta
Murrieta
909-677-6513

Morlock Ranch
Murrieta
909-677-5112

Santa Rosa Llama Co.
Aquilla Avenue
Murrieta
909-677-5262

AA Worms
43062 Via Dos Picos
Temecula
909-676-6384
What Cub Scout wouldn't like a worm farm??!!

The following three were all listed under Sporting Goods manufacturers in the phone book, so I'll guess that they're factories of some sort. Always interesting to see how something gets made...

Talon Sports USA
43339 Business Park Drive
Temecula
909-693-1700

Transcend Enterprises
43122 Via Dos Picos
Temecula
909-695-7517

Tolman Distributors
44998 Camino Veste
Temecula
909-693-4832

Sun Set Koi Fish Farm
27854 Keller Road
Menifee
909-679-0462

Here are some other places I haven't gotten phone numbers for yet, but might be good to tour.

FedEx

Hobby Shops

Pizza Factory

My Buddies Pizza

Cal Oaks Bowling Alley

Equestrian academies/schools

Ceramic Painting, in Temecula at the Target center

Slot Car Racing, in Lake Elsinore off of Diamond Drive

Veteranarian