TJO 10x10 Management’s Resorts Celebrate the Fourth of July with Onsite Fireworks, Foam Parties and a Full Week of Family Fun
This Fourth of July, the red, white and blue rolls out all week long. From June 29 through July 5, Great Escapes RV Resorts, part of the TJO 10x10 Management portfolio of outdoor hospitality destinations that includes Great Escapes, Jellystone Park™, KOA, and other affiliated properties, is lighting up the holiday with onsite fireworks, foam parties, glow parades and patriotic fun for every age, with the celebration turned up a notch for America's 250th birthday.
Fireworks Light Up the Night
Four parks send the celebration sky-high with their own onsite fireworks on the Fourth of July:
Jellystone Park™ Pelahatchie (Pelahatchie, MS) goes big and loud, with its signature fireworks launching at 9 p.m. on July 4 right off the beach. The show caps a packed week of campsite-decorating contests, patriotic parades, a red-white-and-blue ice cream social, and wet-and-wild wagon rides by day and glow wagon rides after dark.
Great Escapes Chesnut Bay (Leesburg, AL) throws its 4th of July Freedom Fest on a hilltop above Weiss Lake, with fireworks bursting over the resort at 9 p.m. on July 4. The day stacks crafts, a golf-cart and bike parade, foam parties, live music, a glow ride and glow pool party, and a dive-in movie, with Pirates Bay Waterpark steps away.
Jellystone Park™ North Port Huron (Carsonville, MI) lights up the Island at the campground with a fireworks display at dusk on July 4, after a day of morning flag-raising, a parade, patriotic tie-dye crafts, a water-balloon battle, and photo ops with Yogi Bear™, Boo Boo™ and Cindy Bear™.
Jellystone Park™ Mark Twain Lake (Monroe City, MO)sends its fireworks up over the campground lake at dusk on July 4, shot off the dam for a wide-open view across the water, with live music and themed-weekend activities rounding out the holiday.
Coast-to-Coast Celebrations
Across the rest of the portfolio, the festivities span the country, from Texas to the Ozarks to the Rockies:
- Jellystone Park™ Austin North (Georgetown, TX): Red, White & Boo Boo™ Week, with high-energy basketball games, water-balloon battles, patriotic crafts, and Boo Boo™-approved bingo.
- Jellystone Park™ Columbus North (Mount Gilead, OH): a star-spangled week of games, festive crafts and pool parties, the Yogi Bear™ 4th of July bike-and-golf-cart parade, and an Independence Day site-decorating contest.
- Jellystone Park™ West Georgia (Bremen, GA): a patriotic golf-cart parade and decorating contest, an all-ages relay race, a watermelon social, and live music.
- Jellystone Park™ Cleveland Sandusky (Nova, OH): a firework-free celebration built for dogs, veterans, and noise-sensitive guests, with patriotic crafts, the Wibit obstacle course, the Patriotic Wagon Ride and Golf Cart Parade, games, music, and dog-friendly events.
- Jellystone Park™ Milton (Milton, PA): a bike-and-golf-cart parade with Yogi Bear™, an Independence Day campsite-decorating contest, patriotic crafts, and poolside parties.
- Jellystone Park™ Warrens (Warrens, WI): a full week of star-spangled fun with dodgeball and cornhole tournaments, festive crafts, pool parties, live music, the Yogi Bear™ parade, and a campsite-decorating contest.
- Jellystone Park™ Watts Bar Lake (Loudon, TN): a Fourth of July weekend kickoff with live music on the lakeside stage, plus the splashground, foam parties, a petting zoo, and silent disco.
- Great Escapes RV Resorts Bryan College Station (Bryan, TX): the Stars & Stripes Celebration, with flag-themed crafts and games, BBQ catering, live music, a star-spangled parade, and evening sing-alongs.
- Great Escapes RV Resorts North Texas (Perrin, TX): a week-long Patriotic Family Vacation with patriotic crafts, live music, and a big water lineup of three resort-style pools, the Wibit obstacle course, and a splash park.
- Great Escapes RV Resorts Branson (Forsyth, MO): Independence Day the Great Escapes way, with the legendary Cardboard Boat Race, an inflatable obstacle course, Slip ’N Slide Kickball and Tug-o-War, a Watermelon Eating Contest, live music, and a festive 4th of July Parade.
- KOA Colorado Springs (Fountain, CO): 4th of July Stars, Stripes & S’mores, with patriotic crafts, live music, Wet-n-Wild wagon rides and foam parties, then a glow ride and after-hours glow pool party once the sun sets, in the Pikes Peak region.