Geek, Gaming & Fandom: camps for adults
LARP weeks, D&D cabins, podcast fan camps, and celebrity takeovers. If a community exists online, someone is now renting a camp for it. We track 4 camps in this lane, 4 currently active.
Active camps
Camp John Waters
The Pope of Trash hosts an adults-only takeover of Club Getaway's Berkshires camp each September, judging costume contests, hosting movie marathons, and mingling with campers between zip lines and Bloody Mary bingo.
Dungeons & Cabins
Founded by professional dungeon master and game designer Sammy Glicker, Dungeons & Cabins books out a SoCal forest camp ('Paladin's Retreat') for weekends of interconnected multi-table D&D campaigns, where one table's choices ripple into another's.
Epic Nerd Camp
Running since 2016, Epic Nerd Camp is the flagship camp for grown-up geeks: five days of LARP, tabletop gaming, quidditch, wand-making, and 'doing IRL what your character does in-game.' Historically hosted in the Poconos, the 21+ camp moved to Camp Ramblewood in Darlington, Maryland, with 2026 registration open for August 15-19.
Wet Hot Bad Magic Summer Camp
Comedian-podcaster Dan Cummins (Timesuck, Scared to Death) and co-host Lynze run a full sleepaway camp for their 'Cult of the Curious' fanbase at a Pennsylvania camp property.
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