Camp Throwback

Camp Throwback belongs to the newest wave of adult summer camps: the creator-run camp. It is organized around Brittany Gibbons (blog/instagram), whose audience is best described as author and body-positivity blogger (Brittany, Herself). Instead of marketing to strangers, the camp fills its bunks from an existing community, which changes the whole social dynamic. Nobody arrives cold; everyone already shares a reference point.

Author and body-acceptance blogger Brittany Gibbons launched Camp Throwback in 2013 as a boozy, unapologetically nostalgic 21+ sleepaway in rural southwest Ohio, complete with drunk field day, theme parties, and crafts. Its first session sold out in 30 hours and 2017 tickets went in 20 minutes. No sessions are traceable after the late 2010s and campthrowback.com no longer resolves as of August 2026, so the camp appears defunct.

The experience

Practical picture: the format is 4-day sleepaway, two sessions per summer. This is a longer immersion, and the extra nights compound: the awkwardness burns off early and the remaining days are pure camp. This is an adults-only environment: no kids programming, no family sessions mixed in.

Cost

When it last ran, pricing was ~$300-400 USD historically. That puts it at the affordable end of the adult camp market, where most all-inclusive weekends land between $400 and $1,000. Confirm what the price actually covers. Camps in this dataset differ on whether lodging, meals, and transport are bundled, and that swings the true cost more than the ticket price does.

Where and when

The venue is in Clarksville, Ohio. Season and dates, as best we can verify: none found for 2025/2026; heyday 2014-2019.