In response to the Melanated Campout crew, summer isn’t over until after their 2023 camping retreat. The Melanated Campout Experience is a weekend stuffed with incredible adventures, meaningful connections, and joy. This isn’t your atypical campout (ex-out the smores and folky camp singalongs). As a substitute, this experience is a transformative journey that inspires you to thrive in the good outdoors. 

Melanated Campout is a Black and women-owned company inspiring more people of color to camp and luxuriate in outdoor adventures. Melanated Campout meets campers where they’re, offering camping opportunities for all comfort levels, from experienced to recent campers. The aim is to be sure that every camper has a healthy and enjoyable experience, leaves camp with an appreciation for the wonder and fantastic thing about the natural environment, and feels inspired to encourage their family and friends to attach with nature.

Winnebago Industries, a number one manufacturer of outside lifestyle products, has signed on because the titular sponsor of the camping retreat in Cordele, Georgia. Because the collective actively works to create diverse and inclusive outdoor spaces, Melanated Campout will return on Friday, September twenty ninth, to Sunday, October 1st, for its flagship event. Lots of of campers will probably be welcomed to an exclusive campground that gives RV sites with electricity, cable television, premium tents, and cabins for an upscale camping experience. 

The campout is hosted by Melanated Cares, a nonprofit created to curate culturally conscious events encouraging BIPOC to embrace the outside. This yr marks the second yr Winnebago Industries Foundation and Melanated Cares have come together to support the event after launching a successful partnership in 2022. Attendees may also enjoy scenic lake views, a marina, golfing, restaurants, and more. Melanated Campout’s iconic event itinerary includes activities from yoga to guided fishing to lip sync battles. The group has hosted over 1,500 campers within the five years since its inception.

“The Winnebago Industries Foundation’s continued support has opened recent doors for our organization,” said Jocelyn McCants, Melanated Campout co-founder, in an announcement.  “We proceed to scale yr after yr, and with such an incredible company powering our annual retreat, Melanated Campout is reaching recent audiences and introducing a whole bunch of first-time campers to the fantastic thing about the outside.”

Lots of of diverse campers will probably be welcomed to an exclusive campground that gives RV sites with electricity, cable TV, premium and primitive tents, and cabins for an upscale camping experience. Attendees may also enjoy scenic lake views, a marina, golfing, restaurants, and more. Melanated Campout’s iconic event itinerary includes activities from yoga to guided fishing to lip sync battles. The group has hosted over 1,500 campers within the five years since its inception.

“After a successful collaboration last yr, we’re excited to proceed our partnership and create an inclusive atmosphere in the outside,” said Jil Littlejohn Bostick, executive director of Winnebago Industries Foundation. “Melanated Cares is a corporation with an incredible history of conceptualizing and executing large-scale events that center on inclusion and we share a commitment to creating the outside a spot for everybody as a part of our ‘All In, Outdoors’ approach.”

For more information and to buy tickets to this yr’s event, click here. Click here to learn more about Winnebago Industries’ All In, Outdoors initiative.