Jeff and Renee Henderson's 1959 Shasta Airflyte is decorated for the Woodstock theme at this weekend's Mid-Central Indiana Vintage Camper Rally at KOA Campground.
Tiny trailers will return for the annual Vintage Camper Rally this weekend at KOA Campground.
Adventures in Paradise will be the theme for this year’s event, which is expected to draw around 30 campers. Not all trailers may be decorated like a day on the beach.
“Whatever is your paradise,” co-organizer Buffy Wilkerson said from her campsite earlier this week as she waited for more trailers to arrive. “So paradise for one person may be sitting in your slippers reading a book somewhere.”
The event is part of the Mid-Central Indiana Vintage Camper Rally, which marks its sixth year in Crawfordsville. Enthusiasts travel to campgrounds across the Midwest dressed in costume and decorate the trailers for the different themes.
Wilkerson and her partner John Howard hauled in their gray-and-red 1961 Shasta Compact and matching Chevy station wagon for the week.
The Greencastle couple has eight vintage campers in their collection, including a 1964 model called “Independence Haul” that Wilkerson decks out in Americana style.
The event features drawings for nightly door prizes and breakfast is served to the campers on Sunday morning. Prizes are awarded for the best-dressed participants and the best camper décor.
The public can tour the campers during an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Campers will return to KOA in October, but not for another rally. The group meets to attend the Covered Bridge Festival and other activities in the Parke County area.
Wilkerson is already planning for the annual Halloween rally at the Turkey Run campground. She rents two campsites for her spread of decorations, which includes a 25 ft. tall inflatable ghoul.
An inflatable dragon has wings that move and a motion-activated grim reaper greets visitors who walk through the mist from a fog machine.
“I decorate the yard as spooky as I can,” she said.
