Requirement
1. Visit a landscape project, with its plan if you can get one
Required Often forgotten
TWO SEARCHES IN ONE SENTENCE, AND ONLY ONE OF THEM IS THE VISIT. Finding a site that qualifies is research. Getting the drawing is a request made to a stranger, and the requirement wants it in your hands BEFORE you go rather than afterwards. That is why this requirement is opened in week one and closed much later.
Notes and warnings
Warning. ASK FOR THE PLAN IN THE FIRST WEEK, BECAUSE "IF ONE IS AVAILABLE" IS AN ANSWER SOMEBODY ELSE HAS TO GIVE YOU. There are two searches in this requirement. The first is a completed project you can be sure a landscape architect designed: a public park built or renovated in the last thirty years, a botanical garden, a college or corporate campus, a city plaza or waterfront, a hospital courtyard, a zoo or a cemetery. Large public projects almost always had one and almost always credit them, on a plaque, a donor board, the park web page, or at the parks department that commissioned it. The second is the plan, which the requirement wants BEFORE the visit. Ask the firm or the parks department; a plan is often already a PDF and firms are usually glad to hear from a Scout. GO WITH IT IN YOUR HAND IF YOU CAN, because requirement 2 asks about spaces, entries, paths and shade, and those are things a designer drew deliberately and a visitor notices by accident.
Where this step comes from
- Landscape Architecture Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 1 · The requirement asks you to obtain a plan of the design from the landscape architect before the visit, if one is available.