Water. We can’t live without it. We can’t drink dirty water. Everything on Earth needs water. The Ocoee needs water. SEA has worked for the last 11 years with young people and their communities to highlight the need for clean water and take direct action to improve the health of the water and the local watersheds.
Outdoor Adventures Rafting (OAR) understands the need for clean water and is teaming up with TenneSEA Kids 4 Clean Water to offer its first annual Ocoee Clean WaterFest Family Camping Weekend, Oct. 17-19.
It is a weekend full of fun activities focused on the Ocoee River water and getting folks outdoors. Come camp for free (pre-registration required by calling 1 800 OARSMEN) enjoy programs and river adventures and just get outside in this glorious fall weather.
Mary Beth Sutton of SEA said, “Our work at SEA progresses from education to positive action. You have to understand and love the outdoors and our natural world to want to take care of it. That’s why this partnership with OAR is just perfect! Get outside, love the outdoors….then you will personally take action to care for it!”
The public can camp from Friday through Sunday. Programs start Saturday with team challenges and low ropes, a water program “How Clean is the Ocoee?” and even a creek critter hike up Goforth Creek to search for crawdads, salamanders, and the scary hellgrammite. Tubing will be free when the water is running.
Officials said, "If you haven’t rafted the Ocoee, come see what you have missed! You can even got to the corn maze across the street which is offering discounts for the weekend!
Saturday afternoon, the Gear Closet and OAR will offer a GEAR SWAP…bring boats, camping gear, whatever outdoor gear and swap or sell. The Gear Closet will bring some of its inventory as well.
Evening programs will bring the state park rangers with owls and snakes, wonderful Bluegrass by Chattanooga’s own Appalachian Antidote, and ending the evening with s’mores and ghost stories around the camp fire.
OAR and SEA’s Kids 4 Clean Water want you to enjoy the outdoors and learn more about why you should do your part to take care of our precious natural heritage."