The Boy Scout Jamboree won’t be coming to Goshen Pass in Rockbridge County.

Jack Furst, a member of the Boy Scouts of America board who is heading the search for a new site for the annual gathering for over 200,000 scouts and volunteers, said Tuesday that the Goshen Scout Reservation was crossed off the list because of “a wide variety of issues.”

The Goshen site topped a list of 80 studied by BSA in 28 states. Development of the site would have taken years, and ultimately create 80 full-time and 1,200 seasonal jobs and cost $100 million to $250 million.

The proposal to move the 10-day, quadrennial event, due to happen again in 2013, to the scenic site in Rockbridge had drawn opposition from numerous residents in the area. Opponents said the development would change the rural character of the area and questioned whether roads in the area, including Virginia 39, could handle the traffic the jamboree would generate.

In the end, the Scouts saw too many obstacles.

“We appreciated the opportunity to really look at the property ... we did a ton of work," Furst said. But land-use issues and cost, among other things, are forcing the search to go elsewhere.