You haven’t yet met all the people you will love.
Weekend sleepaway camp for women in Colorado. No justification, no networking, no wellness promises. Just play, connection, and the kind of weekend that turns strangers into your people.
WE ARE DAME LODGE
WE ARE DAME LODGE
A weekend sleepaway camp for women, held in the Colorado mountains. Friday arrival to Sunday checkout. You'll stay in bunks, eat communal meals, and spend the weekend hiking, crafting, playing games, dancing, sitting by the fire, and laughing with women you just met but won't want to leave.
This isn't a wellness retreat. There's no personal growth curriculum, no forced vulnerability circles, no networking. No one will ask you to journal about your inner child or share your biggest fear. The goal is to play, connect, and remember what it feels like to have fun without having to earn it first.
Dame Lodge is for women who:
Miss the kind of friendship that didn't require a shared Google doc
Are tired of optimizing their way to joy
Want to be messy, loud, and maybe wear glitter for 48 hours
Know that adulting doesn't have to mean the end of play
You don't need to come with a group. Most people don't. Solo travelers are the whole point. You'll arrive alone and leave with your people.
What Happens at Camp
Every weekend is different, but the structure stays the same: activities designed to get you moving, creating, laughing, and connecting without needing a reason.
Think hiking, campfire nights, crafting, dance parties, group games that get ridiculous quickly, and plenty of unstructured time to just... be. Maybe you'll stay up too late talking. Maybe you'll howl at the moon. Maybe you'll discover you're actually good at capture the flag.
Everything is optional. Show up to what sounds fun. Skip what doesn't.
What’s Included
Your ticket covers everything: lodging, all meals, activities, and access to the weekend programming. Just show up with comfy clothes and a willingness to try.
After Camp
Dame Lodge doesn't end when you pack up on Sunday. The community continues year-round through seasonal reunions, urban meetups, and an active group chat where women stay connected, plan trips, and show up for each other. One weekend becomes years of belonging. Camp is just the beginning.
Dame Lodge started because I got tired of waiting for someone else to build the thing I wanted to exist. A place where women could skip the small talk, play like kids, and leave with people who actually get them.
Hi! I’m Abby. I've been the person who organizes the thing since college, the group dinners, the group trips, the "let's all just meet up" texts that somehow actually happen. After moving to Denver, I realized how hard it had become to make real friends as an adult. Not networking contacts. Not cycling pals. Actual friends who show up and stay.
Dame Lodge isn't just a weekend. It's a community for women ready to do life with their crew.
Can’t wait to hang!!
— Abby
DAME
noun (dām)
archaic: a woman of rank, station, or authority, such as
a) the mistress of a household
b) the wife or daughter of a lord
c) a female member of an order of knighthood, used as a title prefixed to the given name
US slang, old-fashioned : WOMAN, especially one regarded as spirited or stylish
3. a woman in a season of peak everything — career, caregiving, household decisions — who's ready to reclaim the [play]time that adulthood attempts to bury
a) dame lodge: WOMAN defined not by status or title but by attitude, ambition, a ceaseless zest for life
b) not looking to be fixed or optimized; looking to be met by an experience that gets it and gets her, and by other women who do, too
c) never afraid to “try too hard”, the one who gets sh*t done
d) see also: ready to laugh too loud, stay up too late, play campy camp games, and howl at the moon
Dame Lodge is where the ambitious girlies come to laugh too loud, stay up too late, and come home more themselves than when they left.
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