Great American Backyard Campout
June 27, get outside and enjoy nature with your own backyard campout.The economy may be keeping people closer to home this summer. Instead of packing up and hitting the road, here’s an idea for family fun, no further than your backdoor. The National Wildlife Federation encourages parents and kids alike to trade their website for a campsite and screen time for green time.
Turn off computers, TVs, iPods, Wiis, MP3 players, cell phones and all things high tech, to experience a night with Mother Nature, listen for nocturnal wildlife (maybe even see a few), star-gaze, cook outdoors, tell stories about Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, and explore a whole other world right in their own backyard.
Last year thousands of people from around the country participated in the Great American Backyard Campout®. You don’t need to go to Yosemite National Park to experience the great outdoors and the wonders it has to offer. Just open up your backdoor! June has been officially designated Great Outdoors Month by the White House and more than half of America’s governors and what better way to celebrate
This was our family's backyard campsite last year. We are looking forward to the fun once again this year. I hope some of you will get outdoors for the Great American Backyard Campout just like us.Here are some of our camping posts to help you get started...
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that is a great idea! it looks like you could have lots of fun in your back yard. unfortunately we don't much have a back yard.
We're going! We've got a group of 21 of us.
I'm not an American but this is one American tradition that I so want to experience. I hope my neighbors will not think me weird :)