South Mountain Reservation Family Campout, Sept. 13-14 (2014) - Reserve your spot now!

wellred

Aug 18, 2014 at 3:15pm Edited

The South Mountain Conservancy and Essex County Parks are excited to announce the first South Mountain Reservation Family Campout on Sept. 13-14, a complete camping experience for families with young children (up to age 12).

In addition to being the only non-Scout group permitted to pitch a tent on the reservation, we will offer hikes, games, s'mores and stories around the campfire, morning yoga, a scavenger hunt, and more!

Space is limited. Sign up by visiting The South Mountain Conservancy's website at http://www.somocon.org.

TarheelsInNj

Aug 18, 2014 at 4:01pm

Cool! Is there any flexibility to come a little late Saturday? My son has a birthday party that day until 6pm but I know he'd love this. I'm just not sure how structured the event will be. It sounds wonderful!

wellred

Aug 19, 2014 at 6:06am

Sure, you can join us late. You'll miss some activities during the afternoon but will arrive while folks are eating dinner. You'll make the evening walk and games, as well as the campfire activities, plus Sunday's activities. We are trying to strike a balance by providing some structure, but also by giving people flexibility to go do their own thing.

Hope you can come!

callista

Aug 19, 2014 at 6:08am

So if you have children older than 12, you have to leave them at home?

Bee

Aug 19, 2014 at 6:11am

The bee family paid - sending in the registration form shortly!

melandmike

Aug 19, 2014 at 6:57am

Do we need to bring sleeping bags and tents? If not, where do we sleep? Also would it be a big deal to leave early on Sunday for Hebrew School?

RossesPoint

Aug 19, 2014 at 7:03am

There's a PDF on the somocon.org site that says to bring tents, sleeping bags, etc as well as other details.

melandmike

Aug 19, 2014 at 8:06am

@RossesPoint- Thanks. I missed that somehow.

eliz

Aug 19, 2014 at 8:09am

What a cool idea!

wellred

Aug 19, 2014 at 1:28pm

@callista - All the activities in this event have been geared toward younger children.

@melandmike - Yes, no problem packing up and leaving early.

It's set to be a fun time - hope you can make it!

papayagirl

Aug 26, 2014 at 5:07pm

We're signed up and psyched to go! Just wondering how close to capacity the event is, before I talk it up to others.

TarheelsInNj

Jul 19, 2015 at 6:06pm

Any chance this event is happening again this year

Bee

Jul 19, 2015 at 9:00pm

Yes - we'd love to do it again. Even got a new tent oh oh

bog

Jul 20, 2015 at 1:27am

This thread is a big fake out....I just went to the somocon,org site and was cursing myself for not be able to find the link to sign up.

Oh well, lets hope they do it again.

TarheelsInNj

Jul 20, 2015 at 5:33am

bog said:
This thread is a big fake out....I just went to the somocon,org site and was cursing myself for not be able to find the link to sign up.
Oh well, lets hope they do it again.

Oh, I'm sorry =(

sac

Jul 20, 2015 at 6:36am

Is @wellred still around? If so, it would be great if (s)he could update the thread title.

mjh

Jul 20, 2015 at 6:45am

Nothing on their website about a campout:

http://www.somocon.org/

jamie

Jul 20, 2015 at 7:12am

I added 2014 to the thread title

sac

Jul 20, 2015 at 7:15am

I just emailed a friend (not on MOL) who is in the Conservancy to find out if there is anyone to contact for more info and/or if he knows whether the event will be repeated. I'll post back if I learn something.

bog

Jul 20, 2015 at 7:21am

sac said:
I just emailed a friend (not on MOL) who is in the Conservancy to find out if there is anyone to contact for more info and/or if he knows whether the event will be repeated. I'll post back if I learn something.

Thanks - hopefully you let him know that a mere rumor about a repeat generated interest.

TarheelsInNj

Jul 20, 2015 at 7:34am

mjh said:
Nothing on their website about a campout:
http://www.somocon.org/

Yeah I didn't see it there, that's why I came here to see. It's how I learned about it last year!

Thanks @Jamie for clarifying the thread title!

sac

Jul 21, 2015 at 2:40am Edited

Here's what I heard back from my email:

Thanks for alerting me. I do not monitor MOL. Please direct them to the website, www.somocon.org which now has preliminary information. It is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 19-20. We will not be running the program, however, unless we get additional volunteers to help out.

(The first person I got to said that whoever worked on it last year, and presumably did the MOL posting, is not involved this year. So from that and the above statement, I doubt that we will be getting further updates here.)

RossesPoint

Aug 26, 2015 at 2:25pm

FYI, Looks like the campout is back on next month, details on their website.

susan1014

Aug 26, 2015 at 3:19pm

So an intrepid South Orange family could camp in New Waterlands the night of the 18th, then in the Reservation the night of the 19th, and then attend Playday on the 20th...

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