Get outside, breathe fresh air, and pitch your tent next to a neighbor in Kennesaw during Kennesaw’s First Ever Backyard Camp-out.  The City of Kennesaw and Boy Scout Troop 002 are hosting this fantastic family event.  Part of the National Wildlife Foundation’s “Be Out There” campaign, Kennesaw’s First Ever Backyard Camp-out is sure to bring the community of Kennesaw closer together through nature.

In addition to Kennesaw’s First Ever Backyard Camp-out, the City of Kennesaw is also holding the season’s first 2013 Outdoor Movie Season movie for this year.  The featured movie will be Disney/Pixar’s Brave and will be shown during the evening at the Camp-out.

There will be ample activities to fill you and your Kennesaw neighbors camping schedule.  Experience a model camp site, observe camping equipment demonstrations, and participate in a variety of recreational games, crafts, campfire songs and storytelling activities.  So, gather your family or friends and head outside to enjoy the great outdoors in Kennesaw!

Swift-Cantrell Park

3140 Old Highway 41

Kennesaw, GA

$10 per campsite – Only tents allowed – Must be accompanied by an adult

Kennesaw Parks & Recreation Department at (770) 422-9714.

Trains, Trains Trains are chugging into your Kennesaw neighborhood at The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History.  Trains, Trains, Trains is billed as a family day that features all type of train exhibits and model train demonstrations for you and your family in Kennesaw.  Trains, Trains, Trains will also “feature crafts, tips and techniques for building a home layout and a variety of different model train layouts that can be operated by children of all ages. The daylong Kennesaw event will include interactive activities, including a train-themed story time, railroad music and vendors selling a variety of train-related items.”  The Trains, Trains, Trains event will be held from 9:30 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19, in the museum’s Jolley Education Center.  The musem director has been quoted as saying that this is one of Kennesaw‘s most popular events!

Bargain hunters of Cobb County, get ready to find the diamond in the rough or an old, lost treasure.  The first weekend in June, the annual mega-yard sale, also known as the Dixie Highway Yard Sale takes place. The yard sale is open each day from 8 to 5 and runs from Marietta through Kennesaw and then north to Ringgold.  In all, 13 communities are participating in the event.  The yard sale starts in Marietta.  The Marietta  Museum of History will be selling items like furniture, knick knacks and textiles with all the proceeds benefiting the Museum.  The sale will be inside the first floor of the Kennesaw House in the Virginia Tumlin community room.  In addition to the yard sale, there will be many activities and attractions , throughout Cobb County an beyond, available in each town along the way.  Look for yard sales that have the official Dixie Highway Yard Sale sign.

Please note that this event takes place on the two lane Dixie Highway, also known as “Old 41″ and is a completely different road than the four lane new Highway 41.

June 1, 2012 – June 2, 2012

Dixie Yard Sale

Marietta Museum of History

Fri  10am – 9pm & Sat 10am – 4pm

For more information, please call (770) 387-1357.

Pack your picnic basket for a night of laughs in Kennesaw!  Swift-Cantrell Park is hosting an outdoor movie, Disney’s The Muppets, on June 2nd.  Bring blankets and chairs to set up in front of the giant inflatable movie screen.  Arrive in Kennesaw around 6 pm to take advantage of the inflatables, children’s activities, and free giveaways.  Food, beverages, and snacks will be available for you to munch on for the movie.  Don’t forget your blankets and chairs, so you can spread out, get comfortable, and laugh under the stars in Kennesaw!

Disney’s The Muppets (Rated PG)

June 2, 2012

6 PM – Kids Activities

Dusk- Movie Time

Swift-Cantrell Park

3140 Old 41 Highway

Kennesaw, GA

As the weather conitnues to improve, it goes without saying that some nights are so packed with fun that dinner doesn’t get on the table!  That’s why Kennesaw’s Downtown Development Authority is partnering with local food trucks for Dinner at the Depot.  Beginning on April 2nd, food trucks of all kinds will roll into Depot Park on Cherokee Street in downtown Kennesaw from 5 – 8 pm weekly, as the weather permits.  Join with your neighbors and community at large to make this gathering a success for Kennesaw.  The more people that come, the more future variety they will be able to offer.  This isn’t a prepackaged, deep-fried situation.  This is real food that is made fresh just for you, sometimes better and more unique than you can get in a restaraunt.  The following food trucks will be available on April 2nd:  Champion Cheesesteaks, Alisha’s BBQ, Buen Provecho, Cajun John’s, Happy Belly and Honeysuckle Gelato.  It’s the perfect time of year to picnic or just grab and go for dinner in Kennesaw.  If you can’t get out there April 2nd, the Kennesaw DDA will communicate details about the type and number of trucks via their Dinner at the Depot Facebook page.