Annie’s Campground
Winter and 2012 Activity Calendar
Our NEW ATV/UTV Trails and “Playground” now open!
We have widened some logging trails on the "back 150" acres of the property for about three miles of challenging ATV trails. Prepare to get dirty! Our trails go primarily through heavily wooded areas, water and mud obstacles, hilly terrain, some rock manuevering, and some open riding at the playground on the bumps, jumps, inclines, water, sand, mud, and snow!
All riders must check in at office and sign waiver. Must be 16 with a valid ATV license and/or ATV safety course, and proof of insurance. Helmets required. Open to the public. Call 715-787-3632 for more information or stop in at the Pub anytime after 11 a.m.
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1st Winter at Annie’s Special on Cabins: Starting at $50 per night! Book six nights and receive 7th for free! All cabins have electric heat, mini-fridge, microwave, coffee pot; pay $60 for cabins with flush toilets. Free hot showers and toilets at pavilion year ‘round; potable water and supplies available at store/pub.
New Year’s Eve Bash starts at 8 p.m. at Irish Pub: No cover charge! First round of appetizers and aperitif at 8 p.m. Enter through store for coat check and food. Live entertainment and free munchies and sweets all night! Fireworks and champagne at midnight. Designated driver available for trips under 15 miles (or through SafeWay: taxi or trip to nearest available lodging). Annie's Campground is a proud Member of the Wisconsin Tavern League.
Special events and parties can be booked year ‘round; indoor playground open year ‘round.
Summer Activity bands include unlimited play for all ages on: spaceball trampoline, jumping pillow, mini-golf, multiple playgrounds, indoor playground, inflatable pond toys,waterfall, wading pool, paddle boats, row boat, and fishing pond.
Winter Activity bands include use of ice skating pond, ice fishing pond (poles available), sledding hills, indoor playground, bikes, trikes, and pedal carts with obstacle/driving course indoor; trails for snowshoeing, cross-country skiing.
Annie’s Campground 2012 activity calendar
715-787-3632
www.anniescampground.com
· Make your camping reservations between New Year’s Eve and before Saint Patty's Day and receive $5 off your tab at Irish Pub and Grub good for use in January and February.
· ATV trails and playground open daily from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. year ‘round (except gun/muzzle loader deer hunting season). $10 per person for all day fun. Challenge yourself on over 3 miles of twisting, wooded trails or test your skills on our 30-acre “playground”. Come check it out; warm up, eat, drink, and be merry at our Irish Pub and Grub.
· We are pit stop #318 on the Shawano County Map, 1.6 miles south of the Mountain Bay Trail. ATM, camp store with basic supplies, oil, fuel, lodging available. Full bar services and great food. Winter hours: Open Fridays through Mondays from 11a.m. for lunch until 8 p.m. or later, Tuesdays open for lunch at 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., Thursday open for dinner at 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. or later. Closed Wednesdays. We have plenty of parking for your trailers if you want to ride here or catch the trails and head north. Meet your friends at the Pub for warm specialty drinks, cold beer, hearty Irish Stew and other homemade soups, fish and chips, pizza, gourmet burgers and more! Call for group coordination or for more information: 715-787-3632.
January 1st: Hair of the Dog Run/Walk/Stroll/or Stumble. Meet at Pub at 11:00 am for a short jaunt around the campground. Packer Party Starts at 11:00, free munchies and $1 domestic 12oz. cans.
January 1st: Polar Bear Plunge at high noon! Your $20 donation allows you or someone you would like to volunteer to jump into freezing cold water in the middle of winter in the Great North Woods of Wisconsin! All donations go directly to the Gresham American Legion, Post #390 to help our local and area Veterans, those on active duty, and their families. Free food and drink to all participants on Annie’s!
January 14th: Snowmobile/ATV bonfire party. Bring your smores and gather ‘round the fire! Stay with us this weekend in a cabin and receive free ATV trail day pass (1 per cabin)! Mobile food and drink wagon available as we light up our brush piles and enjoy the night! Live music in the pub on Saturday at 8p.m.
January 18-21: Green Bay Camping and RV Show at Brown County Stadium! Make your camping or cabin reservations at Annie’s Booth and receive a buy one, get one free drink, appetizer, or meal at the Irish Pub and Grub!
February 5th: Super Bowl Party on the big screen. Free munchies during game and free mystery shots when every time Packers score. Let the kids play on the indoor playground, do arts and crafts, arcade games, and enjoy the Kids’ Costume Corner while you enjoy some adult time!
February 11th: Beach Party! Live music at the Pub starting at 8 p.m. Wear your brightest beach clothes and flip flops for playing in the sand and sun while enjoying your margarita. Prizes awarded for best beach bums. Food and drink specials throughout weekend.
February 17-19: Central Wisconsin Sports Show at the Patriot Center Wausau/Rothchild. Make your camping or cabin reservations at Annie’s Booth during show and receive a buy one, get one free winter daily pass at Annie’s Campground. Good for use on sledding hills, ice skating, ice fishing, cross-county skiing and snow shoeing trails.
March 9-11: Central Wisconsin Camping and RV show at the Patriot Center Wausau/Rothchild. Make your camping or cabin reservations at Annie’s Booth and receive a buy one, get one free daily activity pass. Good for use on jumping pillow, space ball trampoline, mini-golf, row boats, paddle boats, and fishing pond with poles anytime during camping season 2012.
March 17th: 1st year anniversary for our Irish Pub and Grub on St. Patrick's Day. Join us for free "Irish" green beer, live music, snacks, and cupcakes. We will run specials all weekend. Bring your own equipment and enjoy sledding, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing, and more! Cabin rentals available, call for rates; camping sites with 20/30/50 amp service for the brave at $25/night.
March 29-April 15: Spring Break Out! Family/stroller-friendly nature hikes, Full-Moon flashlight fun, bird-watching and identification nature hike (bring your sketch book, bird book, and a camera). Camp or cabin with us and play on any of our fun stuff for $3 per person per day! Stay six nights and receive the 7th night free! Great way to spend spring break with your family, “unplug”, and enjoy nature and the beginnings of spring.
April 6-8: Easter Weekend. Easter Egg Hunt Saturday morning at 11 a.m. Egg decorating at the pavilion starting after the Easter Egg Hunt. Play on all our fun stuff for $3 per day per person! Kid karaoke Saturday and Sunday from 11-11:30. Stay with us in the cabin or camping and receive ½ price ATV daily trail and playground pass!
April 13th: Water is on! Reduced camping rates until May 11th. Camp for $25 per night!
April 27-29: Bike trip or walk in the woods, bonfire near the pavilion. BYO smores. Camp one night free or free daily activity band for every four hours of “firewood-making” time! Help us clean up the deadwood around the campground and property, cutting, stacking, or splitting and have a treat on us for your help.
May 4-6: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo! Bring your sombreros and brightly colored clothes! Mexican food specials at the Pub, Corona, margaritas, Dos Equis drink specials throughout Saturday. Build your own nachos for $6 per plate!
May 12-13: Live music Saturday night during our Spring trail ride: self-guided on and near the campground, over 1200 acres of wooded, rolling hills and great trails. Riders may link to the Mountain Bay State Trail for longer rides. All trails loop back to the campground for one-hour ride, 2 ½ hour ride, or longer if you hit the Mountain Bay Trail. Midway point is on loop two: serves food, drinks, and snacks both days. $15 for primitive camping for the weekend; $5 per horse; current Coggins required. You may pre-register and reserve your primitive site or sites with water and electric by calling 715-787-3632. We have free water delivery service for your horses. Any site may have a fire pit, firewood cannot be brought onto property; it is available at the store for $8 a big bucket and delivered to your site for free. Tables also available. Portable toilets, waste receptacles, manure collection points dispersed around equestrian camping area. Groups encouraged, reservations appreciated for planning purposes.
May 12-13: Horse shoe and volleyball tournaments begin at 4 p.m., register at the Pub Friday night/Saturday morning.
May 12-13: Silly Spa Day for Mothers and daughters in the pavilion from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday; play dress up, do your nails and hair, and have “girl time” in the pavilion. Mom can enjoy $3 specialty cosmos at the “spa”. Free waffles and coffee for Mom on Sunday.
May 18-20: Celebrate our 1st year anniversary at the Campground with free food and drinks on Saturday 1-2 p.m., carnival games and activities, face painting, golf cart and bike parade, hayrides, bonfire, buy one get one free activity bands. Bring a friend and come check us out!
May 19th: Grand Opening of our new PAINT BALL COURSE! Free to all military, police, fire and rescue badge ID/badge holders! All others, $5 per person or $20 for 5-person teams; bring your own equipment and go for the opposing teams flag or mascot! Paint balls and CO2 refill available on site. Paint Ball Course sponsored by Big Lug Trailers, Shawano.
May 18-20: Armed Forces Day weekend. Show your military, police, fire and rescue badge/ID card and enjoy one free night of primitive camping (pay for one, get one free) to any U.S. or Allied Forces, police, fire and rescue members with ID card. 10% military discount offered anytime to all active duty ID card holders or retirees and their immediate family. Thank you for your service!
May 25-28: Memorial Day Weekend! Patriotic glow parade, military-style activities including orienteering (bring a compass), age-appropriate obstacle courses, fun run/walk on Sunday morning. Fireworks on Saturday night. Horse shoe and volleyball tournaments on Saturday and Sunday.
June 1-3 Rule the skies: Build, display, and fly your own model airplane, kite, or helicopter as a family or group of campers competition.
June 8-10 School’s OUT: Beach volleyball, limbo contest, Friday night Kid Karaoke from 6:30-7 p.m., Saturday night teen dance night at 7 p.m. Free camping to any teachers with school ID card (buy one, get one night free).
June 15-17 Father’s Day Follies: Build a cardboard boat and sail across the pond competition. Archery class, demonstration and free participation compliments of Rib Mountain Bowman Club on Saturday 1-3ish; come try out a new sport or receive one-on-one training to improve your shooting skills. Live music on Saturday. Free waffles and coffee for Dad on Sunday.
June 16-18 Live music Saturday night during our Summer trail ride: self-guided on and near the campground, over 1200 acres of wooded, rolling hills and great trails. Riders may link to the Mountain Bay State Trail for longer rides. All trails loop back to the campground for one-hour ride, 2 ½ hour ride, or longer if you hit the Mountain Bay Trail. Midway point is on loop two: serves food, drinks, and snacks both days. $15 for primitive camping for the weekend; $5 per horse; current Coggins required. You may pre-register and reserve your primitive site or sites with water and electric by calling 715-787-3632. We have free water delivery service for your horses. Any site may have a fire pit, firewood cannot be brought onto property; it is available at the store for $8 a big bucket and delivered to your site for free. Tables also available. Portable toilets, waste receptacles, manure collection points dispersed around equestrian camping area. Groups encouraged, reservations appreciated for planning purposes.
June 22-24 Water Wars Phase I: Wanna get wet? Bring your water balloons, squirt guns, and other creations (no fire trucks) and prepare to get soaked! Water survival skills training, water obstacle course, and mud wrestling.
June 29- July 5th Independence Day Celebration: Frog and grasshopper races, face painting, fireworks display, glow parade, best patriotic-ly decorated sites competition. Reserve your site for the entire holiday week and receive a VIP weekly activity band for $50 per person (save $20).
July 6-8 Summer Sizzler: Bring a shirt for tie dye, pig roast and pot luck, iced T-shirt races, beach volleyball, horseshoe tournament, all-U-can eat ice cream, watermelon seed-spittin’ contest.
July 13-15 Christmas in July: Santa’s workshop, glow parade, prizes for best decorated sights, peppermint stick races, Christmas cookie bingo.
July 20-22 Water Wars Phase II: Takin’ it to the woods! Camouflage and big guns, balloons, and more! Mud-wrestling, arts and crafts, beach volleyball tournament.
July 27-29 Scrub-a-dub: Friday night kid karaoke 6-6:30 and teen dance night. Muddin’ with bikes, golf carts, and more! Sprinkler-on-steroids, bubble blowin’, bubble scoopin’, and more suds.
August 3-5 Prom Party: Bring your favorite prom or other attire of varying degrees of fitting and funniness, wigs, and any silly props for golf-cart/bike/other “homecoming” parade and dance. Ballroom dance class Saturday evening. Prom Queen and King selected by group of mystery judges.
August 10-12 Monster Mash: Join us for pre-Halloween bash! Face-painting, tattoo-ing (temporary), bobbing for apples, pumpkin drawing contest, dress up in your favorite costume and trick-or-treat throughout the campground, kid costume contest at 5 p.m. on Saturday, take a tour of the “haunted” forest, glow parade, adult costume and dance party begins at 9 p.m. Saturday night.
August 17-19 Magic or Mystery: Search for the magic of nature in rock and sediment, water, or wildlife; join an educational and cultural experience on local legends and history and how it shaped this area. Look for faeries and magical creatures in our own pixie land. Create your own magical instrument or faery house and bring your imagination to life this weekend.
August 24-26 Scavenger Hunt: Join as a family or camping group to look for clues on the 185-acre property; grab a sand shovel and a paint brush as amateur archeologists to discover treasures buried beneath the earth.
August 31-September 3 Labor Day Challenge: Blind-folded golf-cart obstacle course; bike and trike obstacle course race. Glow parade, Friday night kid karaoke and teen dance night. Fireworks on Saturday at dusk.
September 7-9 Color Me Fall: Enjoy our beautiful autumn colors. Horse-drawn hayrides, nature walks, and discovery of the changing of the seasons, tree and leaf identification, bring along/create your favorite brightly colored and silly hats for the fall parade, bonfire at dark, bat-watching.
September 14-16: Redneck Weekend: Bring your red kerchiefs and horses for our fall trail ride on and near the campground on over 1200 acres or join us for free demonstrations on ropin’, side-saddlin’, roundin’ up the cattle, singing silly campfire songs, sharing a meal around the fire, and other cowboy/cowgirl activities. Invent your own redneck camping activities. Live music Saturday night. Self-guided trail ride on and near the campground, over 1200 acres of wooded, rolling hills and great trails. Riders may link to the Mountain Bay State Trail for longer rides. All trails loop back to the campground for one-hour ride, 2 ½ hour ride, or longer if you hit the Mountain Bay Trail. Midway point is on loop two: serves food, drinks, and snacks both days. $15 for primitive camping for the weekend; $5 per horse; current Coggins required. You may pre-register and reserve your primitive site or sites with water and electric by calling 715-787-3632. We have free water delivery service for your horses. Any site may have a fire pit, firewood cannot be brought onto property; it is available at the store for $8 a big bucket and delivered to your site for free. Tables also available. Portable toilets, waste receptacles, manure collection points dispersed around equestrian camping area. Groups encouraged, reservations appreciated for planning purposes.
September 21-23 Oktoberfest: Carnival games, face-painting, food, drinks, merriment. Keg-tapping ceremony Saturday at noon. Hammer, yodeling, and other traditional contests, live band Saturday, bier, brats, pretzels, and more! Prizes for best authentic German costumes.
September 16-April 13th: Enjoy discounted camping rates starting at $25 per night include taxes, water, electric and more!
September 28-30 Pumpkin Fest: Grow your own magical pumpkin overnight or visit our pumpkin patch and select your own pumpkin, jack-o-lantern making/drawing in pavilion, face-painting, visit our corn maze, tour our haunted forest.
October 5-7 Pumpkin Fest II: If you missed last weekend!
October 8-November 16th Hike the Seasons: Group hike daily at 10 a.m. Food and drink specials when you stay in any of our twelve heated cabins.
October 26-28: Monster Mash II! Bring your costumes and have fun on Halloween weekend. Kid costume contest Saturday at 3, wagon rides through our Haunted Forest, trick-or-treating around the campground, adult costume contest, live entertainment, and dance begins at 8 p.m. at the Pub.
November 16-December 8th Hunters’ Hangout: Stay two nights with us in a cabin and receive one free drink per person after your hunt! Food and drink specials available.
Thanksgiving and Christmas: Running out of room and run-around space at your house during the holidays? Book the pavilion, stay in the cabins, and enjoy the holidays at a slower pace. Many options available, call 715-787-3632 for more information and coordination of any of your special events.
December 22-30 School is OUT Winterfest: Bring your sleds, ice skates, snow shoes, cross-country skis for outdoor activities including snow bowling and mini-golf, food, drink, merriment, Friday night kid karaoke, prizes given to best “Winter-themed” outfit for group or individual category.
December 31st: New Year’s Eve Bash! Free mimosa upon entry, appetizers and munchies throughout the evening, live music and party begins at 8 p.m. at the Pub. Free champagne and fireworks at midnight!
· Special events and parties can be booked year ‘round; indoor playground open year ‘round.
· Packer, Badger, NASCAR parties and more! Food and Drink specials on game day, free munchies during the game, free mystery shot when Packers score.
· Group rates available when you book 8 or more sites.
· Any special promotions, discounts, or coupons must be mentioned at time of reservation.
· Reservations are made when payment in full is received and are non-refundable.
· Rates and prices may change at any time, without notice.
Please call for more information and to discuss your event, group, party, or special needs: 715-787-3632 or email: ann@anniescampground.com
