***UPDATED TRIP INFO***

Hey guys - Mrs. Outbound here of OutboundOverland.com. During our last trip with @Sleeter , we came to realize that many of the people on the trip had young children who weren't able to attend because the days were too long but would love to bring their littles off-road.

With that said - we're planning a FAMILY friendly overland-like trip in Green Ridge State Forest. Friday night July 28 through Sunday July 30. Our two boys, aged 4 and 7, will love to have some new friends.

TRIP INFO: Group Site G1 AT GRSF is booked. Don't worry! There is a porta-john at this site. Plan is to meet Friday evening at Group Site 1 for some family camping. If you can't join Friday night, plan to meet at the site by 10am on Saturday morning, July 29.

Saturday will consist of a 4 hour drive which will be broken up so even the most vehicle-weary travelers should have a good time. The trip will consist of roughly a one - two hour drive around GRSF with a few mellow water crossings, then we will break for lunch and swimming at a swimming hole. Last we checked, there is a good water level and plenty of parking around it. Plan to bring your family a picnic lunch for a lunch stop. After about one hour at the swimming hole we will continue the drive to the next stop which will be an easy walk to the historic and very cool Paw Paw tunnel. After some time exploring the tunnel we will return to the vehicles and travel a short distance to ice cream in Paw Paw. After ice cream we will head back up to camp.

After overlanding, we'll go back to the camp site for some kid-friendly activities. We're thinking tie-die. Mrs. Overland will provide rubber bands, buckets, and die. Bring your own tie-die item (adults too!).

Sunday we'll break camp and head home or stick around for some group hiking or a re-visit to the water hole.

We're asking each family to contribute some firewood. There's a large fire pit in the center of the site.

Let us know if you're interested!

@Sleeter , @carlos.elmotor , @propain , @08runnertjb , @Dougthelurk , @Boyds4Runner , @Antman , @Big_Orange and the DMVoffroad team, @Runn4est , @MountainClimber78 , @Toy4Rnner , @Icepuck72 , @BMeister , @4RnR Grl , @floridafj80 , @Hertz4R , @Localmotion , @Whitelion , @GHARP57 , @DavidR1 , @KingTaco , @soze

List of families coming to date:
1. @Sleeter and @MrsOutbound with 4 and 7 yo boys
2. @carlos.elmotor with a 5 yo girl
3. @Hertz4R
4. @techno with wife, 3 yo boy, 5 yo girl
5. @BMeister with wife and 3 yo
6. The George Family with husband, wife, 7 yo boy and 3 yo girl
7. The Gruber Family (tentative) with husband, wife, 6 yo boy
8. @232vzlano and daughter
9. @08runnertjb with 9 and 4 yr. old
10. @hank_murdukas with wife and 6 mo old

Tentative:
1. @runn4 test with wife and 23 monly old
2. @toy4runner
3. @soze with wife, 12 old boy, 4 yo girl
4. @boys4runner with wife, 12 yo girl, 9 yo boy *day trip only*

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Going to look at the calendar. Will let you know ASAP!

Girls want in BAD. Not sure the dates will work for us though.

I will get back to you...

Following up on this...

Put us down as tentative for me +1 kiddo (pending the wife's work schedule).

Headed to Gore with her this weekend. It's shaping up to be a good summer!

Looking forward to seeing everybody.

Just saw this, I will see if I can drum up some interest!

I would like to join, but that weekend wont work. Expecting #3 around that time.

I probably won't make this one. Thanks for the offer though!

We are interested!

I'm going to be recovering from a week at Isle Royale at that time. #bittersweet

Add me to the interested list please.

This is a great idea. I am interested too, just not sure it will work for me yet. Add me to the list as well. If you guys are ever interested in doing something like this at Rausch Creek, there is a great kid-friendly campground close that has lots of cool rides, a game room and really nice swimming pools with water slides too. I know RC VERY well too, so could lead a cool adventuring run geared to the groups trail level(s). Anthracite Offroad Adventure Area is better for overlanding-type activities up this way, and its about 40mins from this campground too. The campground is called Twin Grove, and its in Pine Grove, Pa., not far from I-81.

I am more of a wheeler than an overlander, but enjoy anything that gets me, my Toy or Jeep and the family in the woods for a weekend.

@Andy in Pa Thanks for the great ideas! We did consider RC but didn't know about the family campground nearby. My husband, @Sleeter , has been there with our boys but I haven't made it yet. Look forward to getting together!

OK...count us and the Red Tacoma for Saturday/Sunday! It'll be the wife, my 8 year old daughter, and 4 year old little man.

Awesome, cant wait to meet the family.

Yes, the campground really is a great family-friendly place with an ice cream parlor and restaurant on-site too. The restaurant at the CG is now owned by the catering company that has catered many events at RC in the past, and they have very good food. They have lots of cabins to reserve, as well as Yurts, trailer sites and a few tent camping sites too. The CG allows 2 tents on a trailer parking site as well. This is nice because you have power/water too. They don't hassle us if we break our rigs and need to fix them in their parking lot, or even at the campsite either, as long as the "after 11pm" noise curfew is observed.