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• 2025 VRPA Family Campout

  • Start
    July 17, 2025
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    2:00 PM
  • End
    July 18, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    North Beach, Burlington, VT

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  2025 VRPA Family Campout

  Thursday, July 17th, 2025

  North Beach

  Burlington, VT

  
  

  
  

  Join us at North Beach in Burlington, VT for a free and fun Parks & Recreation Professionals Day celebration! Anyone working in the parks & recreation field is welcome to attend with their families.

  Space is limited to a max. of 50 adults so register to attend to save your camping spot!

  
  

  Tentative - Schedule of Events:

  Thursday, July 17th

  2:00 - arrival & setup tents

  4:00 - Networking gathering and social time

  6:00 - Dinner & Social sponsored by Ben Schafer Recreation

  8:00 - Campfire networking

  Friday, July 18th

  8:00 - Breakfast with Ben Shaffer Recreation

  Choose your adventure:

  • 9:00 - Water safety demonstration - North Beach / Swimming
  • 9:00 - Naturalist Hike through Rock Point
  • 9:00 - Bike along the Burlington Greenway

  11:00 - Social networking time

  12:00 - Lunch with MRC Recreation

  1:00 - Pack up and check out

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• 82nd Vermont Conference on Parks, Trails, & Recreation - ATTENDEE REGISTRATION

  • Start
    October 08, 2025
  •  
    7:00 AM
  • End
    October 09, 2025
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    4:30 PM
  • Location
    Killington Grand Hotel, Killington, VT

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  Join us to celebrate our 82nd Annual VT Conference on Parks, Trails, & Recreation 

  Come celebrate "The Power of Vermont's Parks, Trails, & Recreation" with professionals from around the region. Join us for one or two days of educational sessions, exhibitors, live demos, and social networking fun. Whether you are a volunteer, student, or paid professional, this if Vermont's premier event for connecting with people in the parks, recreation and trails sector. This year, we have developed a tiered pricing structure that makes the conference affordable. Generous scholarships are also available. 

  For Scholarship Information - Click Here

  All the conference education session information will be posted on our website later in June. We will have a one page, printed copy of the session schedule available at the conference as well. To read the session descriptions you must do so on our website. 

  
  

  See you all at the Killington Grand Hotel

  October 8th & 9th, 2025

  
  

  Room Reservation information is available here!

  Book your rooms by August 25th.

  
  

  To become a member of VTGC - click here!

  To become a member of the VRPA - click here!

  
  

    
  

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• 82nd VT Conference on Parks, Trails, & Recreation - Exhibit Hall

  • Start
    October 08, 2025
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    8:00 AM
  • End
    October 09, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM
  • Location
    Killington Grand Hotel & Resort, Killington, VT
  • Registered
    22 registrants

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  82nd Annual
  VT Conference on Parks, Trails, & Recreation 

  Wednesday & Thursday, October 8th & 9th, 2025
  

  Killington Grand Hotel & Resort

  Killington, VT

  
  

  
  

  EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN
  

   View the Exhibit Hall Brochure with details & sponsorship opportunities here!  
  

            
  

   

  We are excited to return to the Killington Grand Hotel again to celebrate our 82nd Vermont Conference on Parks, Trails, & Recreation! We are partnering again this year with the Vermont Trails & Greenways Council (VTGC) who will be hosting the Trails Symposium in tandem with our conference! The Combination of this central location and continued partnership will help maintain our historic attendance and attract new attendees to a state of the art facility.  We hope you will join us for another amazing opportunity to network & learn from some of the top professionals in our region. 

  Without you, we would not be able to sustain the valuable work of VRPA.  Your partnership is an essential part of that reality! Thank you again for being a part of this year’s 82nd VT Conference on Parks, Trails, & Recreation.

  See you in October for great networking, learning, & fireworks at the Killington Grand Hotel!

  
  

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