Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, Colorado. Submit a short video in GoCampingAmerica.com’s “Not Bummer Summer” summer video contest to compete for a chance to win a weeklong RV trip to any GoCampingAmerica.com affiliated campground in the United States © 2011 Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com.
When Laura Franklin went to the Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in Williamsport., Md., she took along her video camera and not only recorded her husband and kids having fun, but interviewed them about what they liked most about the campground they visited.
“They really enjoyed the waterslides,” said Franklin, a Maryland resident and “MommyBlogger” from Better in Bulk.net. “The other thing they couldn’t they couldn’t stop talking about was panning for jewels.”
Franklin also shot footage of her kids playing laser tag and commenting on their rental cabin. With five kids ages 6 to 14, Franklin said Jellystone Park was the perfect place for a family vacation.
“I just enjoyed that we could stay in one place and that the kids could run around like they were at home. We felt very comfortable. There was lots to do, so we didn’t have to travel anywhere else.”
Franklin is one of the first campers to submit a short video in GoCampingAmerica.com’s “Not Bummer Summer” summer video contest and compete for a chance to win a weeklong RV trip to any GoCampingAmerica.com affiliated campground in the United States.
“The only requirement is the video be family-friendly, that it capture the essence of having a ‘not bummer summer’ and that it be taken at a campground, RV park or resort featured on the GoCampingAmerica website,” said Kera Tomlin, GoCampingAmerica’s director of marketing.
That’s plenty of venues, considering that more than 3,300 campgrounds, RV parks and resorts are featured on the national travel planning website.
Campers are invited to upload their videos to YouTube and then submit their entry forms along with the YouTube link at http://www.GoCampingAmerica.com/videocontest. All videos must be taken and submitted between June 1st and Labor Day (midnight Sept. 5th).
Video entries will be voted on through the ‘favorites’ option on YouTube between June 1, 2011 and September 5, 2011. The top two videos with the most ‘favorite’ votes that best depict a ‘Not Bummer Summer’ Camping getaway and most carefully follows the rules and regulations, will then be entered into a drawing and the first randomly drawn will be selected as the grand prize winner and the other entrant will be awarded the 2nd runner up. The third prize winner will be selected amongst the remaining top five ‘favorite’ votes and entered into a drawing and selected at random. An entrant may recommend to its camping guests, friends and families to ‘favorite’ the entrant’s video on YouTube.
The grand prize winner will receive a weeklong trip in an RV, courtesy of El Monte RV, and free camping at GoCampingAmerica.com campgrounds. Other prizes include seven days and six nights of lodging at any GoCampingAmerica park, a $100 Camping World gift certificate, plus a $100 movie ticket certificate and other Judy Moody movie related promotional items.
GoCampingAmerica.com is promoting its video contest in connection with Judy Moody and The NOT Bummer Summer, a movie based on the bestselling book series by Megan McDonald. For more information about the contest, please visit http://www.GoCampingAmerica.com. For more information about the movie please visit http://www.JudyMoodyMovie.com.
Based in Denver, Colo., GoCampingAmerica.com is the travel planning website of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds.
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