Here are nine ways to celebrate the ninth month of the year when glamping with us this beautiful September!
Celebrate the day the Mayflower set sail for America (September 16, 1620) and visit the ship’s ultimate destination at the Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Massachusetts. Book a glamping cottage at Thousand Trails Gateway to Cape Cod and you’re about 20 miles from the museums that replicate the original 17th settlement of the English colonists that became known as America’s pilgrims.
September 16 is National Guacamole Day, and we all know there’s no guac with avocados. Learn all about avocadoes with a tour of an avocado farm – Choice Avocados in Fallbrook, California offers a variety of tours that range from a one-hour farm tour ($29) to an extended tour complete with a picnic lunch ($149). If you’re glamping at Thousand Trails Wilderness Lakes, you’re about 40 minutes away. For details visit choiceavocados.com.
September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day and there are plenty of ways to learn about pirates while staying with us. If you’re staying at Florida’s Encore Bulow head to St. Augustine and enjoy some pirate fun with Black Raven Adventures which offer several pirate themed cruises including an adults-only sunset cruise on Talk Like a Pirate Day. If your glamping getaway finds you at South Carolia’s Carolina Shores RV Resort in Myrtle Beach, Blackbeard’s Pirate Cruise is fun for everyone (myrtlebeachpiratecruise.com). New Jersey’s Thousand Trails Lake & Shore is a good glamping location if you want to board the Sea Dragon, a pirate adventure cruise in nearby Ocean City.
The International Day of Peace is recognized on September 21 annually and the best way to honor that concept is to visit the International Peace Museum. Rent a glamping cabin or cottage at Ohio’s Thousand Trails Wilmington and make the less than 35-mile drive to the museum located in Dayton. Through its many exhibits, the museum seeks to meet its mission to “foster empathy and empower visitors to take steps toward a more peaceful world.”
Appreciate one of the largest mammals in the world on National Elephant Appreciation Day, September 22. According to islands.com, some of the best elephant exhibits in the US include Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida which is one of the largest habits in the US and also has baby Corra, born in 2023 (glamp at Encore Tropical Palms) as well as San Diego’s Safari Park (glamp at Thousand Trails Pio Pico).
Take a cue from the apple man himself and celebrate Johnny Appleseed Day on September 26 and visit some of the apple orchards around the country. Options can include Applecrest Farm Orchards in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire (glamp at the Tuxbury Pond Tiny House Village); Honey Hill Orchard in Waterman, Illinois (glamp at O’Connell’s RV Campground in nearby Amboy) and of course, the many orchards in Julian, California, which is known as the “Apple Capital of Southern California” (glamp at Thousand Trails Oakzanita Springs.)
National North Carolina Day is September 28 so make it a point to spend the day glamping in the Tar Heel State. Options can include Thousand Trails Forest Lake in Advance or Thousand Trails Green Mountain in Lenoir. Green Mountain sits on the edge of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and has plenty of historic sites to visit including Fort Defiance, the Caldwell Heritage Museum and of course Biltmore, which is about a 60-mile drive but well worth the scenic drive. Forest Lake is a nature lover’s dream set among acres and acres of forest, fields and rolling hills with plenty of trails and opportunities for fishing. Nearby Lexington is known as the “Barbecue Capital of the World” so indulge your BBQ hankerings while enjoying the area’s wineries, shops and “uptown” district considered the retail, cultural and historical center of Lexington.
September is National Honey Month and just like you can’t make guacamole without avocadoes you can’t make mead, an ancient alcohol drink, without honey. Also known as “honey wine,” mead is made from fermented honey, water and yeast. If you’ve never had a taste, nor visited a meadery, here are a few to visit this month during your travels: Foxes Den Meadery in Yorkville, Illinois (about 60 miles from Thousand Trails Pine Country); Funktastic Meads in Midlothian, Virginia (about 70 miles from Bethpage-Camp Resort); Zymarium Meadery in Orlando, Florida (glamp at Encore Tropical Palms); and Honeytree Meadery in Nashville, Tennessee (book a tiny house stay at the Natchez Trace Tiny House Village).
Lastly, in September of 1962, President John F. Kennedy spoke at Houston’s Rice University in a speech justifying the $5.4 billion space program with a goal to put a man on the moon. The location of the planned “manned spacecraft center” was on Texas land donated by Rice University. Eventually, the facility became known as the Johnson Space Center named for President Lyndon B. Johnson who championed Kennedy’s space program while serving as JFK’s VP. Today, visitors to Houston can visit Space Center Houston which has all the exhibits that detail the history of America’s amazing space program which landed the first men on the moon in 1969. Book a glamping stay at Thousand Trails Lake Conroe for your visit to the Space Center.
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