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Talking to a family member of mine, who is manager at a State Park with camping in Illinois. He was talking about how it's become a tradition at their park on the fourth Saturday in October for a camper Halloween party. Everyone puts up Halloween decorations and lights, setup tables for the kids to go around and trick-or-treat, and other fun things to do. One guy puts up a cemetery, with skeletons, someone else makes up a big batch of mulled cider, and some else makes kettlecorn. It sounded like a great idea, and when I went to reserve a spot, all reserve-able (this is a small park only 40 reservable sites - 55 total) sites were already booked - 3 months ahead time, and for camping the last week of October!

My wife and I like camping in cool weather, so it sounded like fun, but since we didn't get a spot, were somewhat tempted to try and start our own Halloween party by putting up flyers at our favorite campground, and see if we can start our own Halloween tradition. Figure it might take 3-4 years to get such a big following as the other park, but can't hurt and the worse thing that will happen is we'll being camping the last weekend in October. Kids would like it anyway, since this way they'd get 2 nights of Trick or Treats. Guess I'll have to make a Jack-O-Lantern Smiley.