14 creator-run camps tracked
The influencer camps, all in one place
Podcasters, YouTubers, authors, and Instagram communities are renting entire summer camps for their audiences, and the tickets move like concert drops. Here's every one we track: who runs it, how big the audience is, and whether it's still going.
Why creator camps are different
An established camp buys a venue and then goes looking for campers. A creator does it backwards. Camp Social turned a ~300K-follower Instagram community into 400-person sold-out weekends with a waitlist reported in the tens of thousands. Bad Magic Productions fills a Pennsylvania camp every September at $1,300 a head before upgrades. The audience was the hard part, and it was built years before the camp existed.
The flip side: a creator camp lives and dies on one person's attention. Several famous early examples below are gone because the person at the center moved on to other things. Status tracking matters more here than anywhere else in the directory. For the full story, read how influencers turned summer camp into the hottest ticket in the creator economy.
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Take the quizActive creator camps (8)
| Camp | Who runs it, and the audience behind it |
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Bummer Camp Wisconsin |
Ann Garvin (Author/BookTok-adjacent). Audience: USA Today bestselling novelist; founder of Tall Poppy Writers. Price: not published (includes lodging and all meals). |
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Camp John Waters Connecticut |
John Waters (Film/celebrity). Audience: cult-icon filmmaker (Hairspray, Pink Flamingos). Price: roughly $500-1,000+ USD depending on cabin tier. |
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Camp Mustache Washington |
Mr. Money Mustache (Pete Adeney) (Blog). Audience: mrmoneymustache.com, flagship FIRE-movement blog with millions of readers. Price: $200-400 USD (all-inclusive, non-profit). |
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Camp Social Pennsylvania |
Liv Schreiber (Instagram). Audience: ~300K Instagram; founder of Hot and Social. Price: ~$999 USD (Klarna installments offered). |
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Camp Workroom Social New York |
Jennifer Wiese (Instagram/craft community). Audience: founder of Brooklyn sewing studio Workroom Social; fixture of the online garment-sewing community. Price: $1,825-1,975 USD (lodging upgrades extra). |
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JoyCamp North Carolina |
Jacques Martiquet (The Party Scientist) (Instagram / LinkedIn / speaking circuit). Audience: sober-rave community built across 15+ countries since 2017. Price: $150-300. |
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Queer Camp New Mexico |
Ty Turner (YouTube). Audience: hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers. Price: not published; site notes affordable/all-inclusive options. |
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Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp Pennsylvania |
Dan Cummins and Lynze Cummins (Podcast). Audience: Timesuck and Scared to Death, major comedy/true-crime podcasts (Bad Magic Productions). Price: $1,300 USD base (upgrades $900-$3,500). |
On hiatus (2)
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A-Camp (Camp Autostraddle) Hiatus |
Riese Bernard / Autostraddle (Web media). Audience: leading queer women's media site; camp co-directed by Marni Kellison and Kristin Russo. Ran 2012-2019 (A-Camp XI: June 5-10, 2019); on extended break since. |
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Camp Copperhead Hiatus |
Steve Earle (recording artist / touring musician). Audience: Grammy-winning artist with national touring audience. ran summers 2015-2022; no location secured since. |
Gone but historically important (4)
These camps proved the model. They are not bookable, and most roundups that mention them are years out of date, but the whole current wave stands on their shoulders.
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Camp GLP (Good Life Project) Defunct |
Jonathan Fields (Podcast). Audience: Good Life Project, top-ranked personal development podcast. Annual late August, 2014-2018 (final year 2018). |
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Camp Mighty Defunct |
Maggie Mason (Blog). Audience: pioneering lifestyle blogger (Mighty Girl). Annual, roughly 2011-2015. |
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Camp Nerd Fitness Defunct |
Steve Kamb (Blog/YouTube). Audience: Nerd Fitness, one of the largest online fitness communities of the mid-2010s. last held fall 2016; replaced by online 'Rising Heroes' program. |
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Camp Throwback Defunct |
Brittany Gibbons (Blog/Instagram). Audience: author and body-positivity blogger (Brittany, Herself). none found for 2025/2026; heyday 2014-2019. |
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