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Expect the Summer of Awesome: Campsites and Dye Garden Are Coming to Rockaways

While deep in the depths of a seemingly never ending winter, it is hard to even imagine that a life without layers of clothing, windchill and snowfall may (potentially) exist in a few short weeks

Expect the Summer of Awesome: Campsites and Dye Garden Are Coming to Rockaways

Expect the Summer of Awesome: Campsites and Dye Garden Are Coming to Rockaways

While deep in the depths of a seemingly never ending winter, it is hard to even imagine that a life without layers of clothing, windchill and snowfall may (potentially) exist in a few short weeks

Expect the Summer of Awesome: Campsites and Dye Garden Are Coming to Rockaways
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Camp Rockaway photos by Blessing Marie and Allan Schoening, via Camp Rockaway website.
Camp Rockaway photos by Blessing Marie and Allan Schoening, via Camp Rockaway website.

While deep in the depths of a seemingly never ending winter, it is hard to even imagine that a life without layers of clothing, windchill and snowfall may (potentially) exist in a few short weeks. But alas, warmer months are closer than we think. 

Last summer, you may have spent a good deal of time in the Rockaways, either hitting up Rockaway Taco, going to Fort Tilden or dancing at Playland Motel. Everybody knows that Rockaways are Bushwick’s Hamptons. This Summer, Rockaway has even more to add to their roster:

Camp Rockaway will allow us to stay overnight for cheap!

Camp Rockaway photos by Blessing Marie and Allan Schoening, via Camp Rockaway website.

We got to talk to Kent Johnson, the director of Camp Rockaway, which is a base camp for beach-goers, day trippers and private group events. “After spending the day at the beach, having to drive home in traffic at night was always a bummer,” explained Kent. “I knew something accessible and simple could be done for this.”

Camp Rockaway will be a place where visitors can take part in family-friendly activities such as shuffleboard and pingpong…

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