You can now register to sleep under the stars in Cobb this spring
When was the last time you and your family slept under the stars beside a campfire with the lingering taste of s’mores in your mouths?
Kennesaw is giving you a chance to do just that after a day of fun.
Registration opened this week for the city’s overnight Backyard Campout event on May 20 at Swift-Cantrell Park, 3140 Old 41 Highway.
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It's BYOT — bring your own tent — but the city will provide dinner, breakfast, games and activities, professional campfire storytelling and s'mores supplies.
Each 10-foot-by-10-foot campsite in the grassy area by the picnic pavilions costs $20. You’ll have some elbow room because there’s a buffer of 10 feet between each site.
You can’t bring your own fire pit, but there’ll be several there.
Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. and breakfast will be at 7:30 a.m.
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This is also a great chance to unplug, so after 11 p.m. will be quiet time — that means no excessive noise from cell phones, radios, handheld video games and such — until sunrise.
For that same reason, the park’s gate will remain closed from 10:00 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. with the exception of an emergency.
Also note that anyone younger than 17 must have a parent, legal guardian or other family member over the age of 18 with them in the tent.
If you're coming, see what the city suggests bring here.
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