National Toboggan Championships!
Far from closing down in the winter, the midcoast is a hotbed of activity at the beginning of February, thanks to Camden Winterfest and the U.S. National Toboggan Championships. The activities include snow sculpting, skiing and snowboarding, and a polar plunge, among other fun winter pastimes.
There is even a snow plow parade and everyone is treated to fireworks over the Camden harbor.
My brother and me with my mom in Minnesota – 1975
What I dream of doing, though, is flying down the toboggan chute. When I was a kid, my dad used to take us sledding (in Minnesota, Colorado, and Nebraska) on a plastic toboggan that rolled right up. That thing FLEW. We had so many great winter days on that toboggan.
The U.S. Toboggan Championships at the Camden Snow Bowl are a festive, grown-up version of that.