Traverse City R-Pod Round Up, June 13-16, 2024 - Event Date: 13 Jun 2024 - 16 Jun 2024

Updated Reservation List:

site#

183  Kelly

191  Richardson

198  Butler

212  Skylis

only 3 sites remain available.

Update to the 2024 Traverse City R-Pod Rally:

Rally Central will be site 177.  Most scheduled activities will be take place at that site. 

Many will be staying all 3 nights over Father's Day weekend, checking in on June 13th and checking out on June 16th.  Know in advance that there will be plenty of down time purposely built into the schedule to give everyone an opportunity to visit and enjoy all things that Traverse City has to offer during most of Friday and Saturday.  New this year will be golf at a local venue that will take place Thursday morning.  Obviously if you plan on playing you will want to check in a day earlier, on Wednesday.

For starters, Thursday night will be low key.  Feel free to drop by site 177, or not for a very informal bonfire gathering.  No activities are scheduled for that evening.

Friday you will have the entire day to yourself.  Starting at 6 pm, we will have a potluck dinner at the pavilion, followed of course by a bonfire at site 177.  1/4#, black angus hotdogs will be the main entree (charcoal grilled of course!) and will be provided by our hosts free of charge.  If you don't like hotdogs, bring your own entree and if it is a meat, we will grill that over the charcoal as well.  Also, please bring a desert or dish to pass, your own beverage, and your own table service.  We will also plan on distributing any Forest River giveaways on Friday evening by picking names out of a hat.

After dinner a Q & A about all things R-Pod will take place.  After that the rest of the night will be spent around the bonfire getting to know one another.

Saturday we will have the chance to tour each others' R-Pods to see what people have done with their wonderful home away from home.  Participation is totally optional and will start at 11 am and last until 1 or 2 in the afternoon.  Free time after that until 6pm when we will once again gather at the pavilion for another informal potluck.

Around 7 pm the fun will start at site 177.

All attendees are requested to bring a gift, if possible from your local area, valued at no more than $25 for our back-by-popular-demand Chinese auction.  Gifts selected by all will be subject to being stolen, or permanently borrowed if you will, up to a maximum of 3 times by others.  Participation in this auction is entirely optional, but it also highly recommended!!!

After the auction, those wishing to do so will once again remain and gather around for another bonfire and opportunity to chat and exchange stories with old and new R-Pod friends.

Sunday of course brings checkout time, which is no later than 11 am.  Beginning at 9:30am we will hold an optional nondenominational service, again at site 177, that lasts about 30 minutes.  You are invited to join us if you are so inclined. 

Also likely expect some corn hole contests and possible an informal euchre tournament to occur during those hours on Friday or Saturday when there's nothing officially scheduled. 

Update from Holiday Campground as of 2/14/2024:

160 Loy

211 Welshons

There are currently 4 available sites left.

Last year a lot of interest was shown in having a golf outing before the rally.  Please let me know (PM if you prefer) IF you plan on playing and also if you wish to organize this event at a local golf course.  I need to know within the next 7 days so we can get this on the docket.  The course I used to be superintendent at (A-Ga-Ming Golf Resort  72 holes) already has a lot of tee times booked for the day we would be playing on.  The course we would play on would be within 15 minutes from our rally site.