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Fort Elsewhere: A Missouri Getaway Campground

Help us put the Fort in Fort Elsewhere so you can come Elsewhere with us!

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Fort Elsewhere: A Missouri Getaway Campground

Fort Elsewhere: A Missouri Getaway Campground

Fort Elsewhere: A Missouri Getaway Campground

Fort Elsewhere: A Missouri Getaway Campground

Fort Elsewhere: A Missouri Getaway Campground

Help us put the Fort in Fort Elsewhere so you can come Elsewhere with us!

Help us put the Fort in Fort Elsewhere so you can come Elsewhere with us!

Help us put the Fort in Fort Elsewhere so you can come Elsewhere with us!

Help us put the Fort in Fort Elsewhere so you can come Elsewhere with us!

Jovanna Bearden
Jovanna Bearden
Jovanna Bearden
Jovanna Bearden
1 Campaign |
Walker, Missouri, United States
$0 USD 0 backers
0% of $18,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Fort Elsewhere: We're Building the Getaway Campground of Your Dreams! 

Fort Elsewhere is a beautiful slice of heaven secluded in Vernon County, Missouri, just a short drive from the crossroads at Nevada. With easy access from Kansas City, Springfield, Joplin, and Witchita, Fort Elsewhere is a perfect location for gatherings, weddings, events, and more!

 

Fort Elsewhere already offers primitive camping, canoeing, hunting, fishing, and nature walks around our 124-acre campus. But this is just the start of our plan. Now we setting a singular stage for your wedding, reunion, re-enactment, star gazing, or event of every other description. 

 

This is where you come in! With your help, we can fast track the first phase of the property's development. Become an early sponsor and put your mark on the property so that our guests will see your generosity for generations to come, or claim a priority time for your church, family, community, or corporate event as soon as the venue is open!

 

The Master Plan

Fort Elsewhere will be developed in 5 phases: 

  • Phase 1 - Medieval Fortress Town
  • Phase 2 - Viking Village
  • Phase 3 - Frontier Main Street
  • Phase 4 - Themed Cabins
  • Phase 5 - Outdoor Event Space, themed gardens, and hiking trails

All of these phases will be really cool, but this fundraiser is about Phase 1. Look for future fundraisers to put your mark on the remaining phases!

 

Phase 1 - Medieval Fortress Town

This phase is the creation of a medieval-inspired event space in three terraces: Low Town, Market Square, and High Town. 

  • Low Town will feature small primitive cabins in the style of medieval huts, providing comfortable overnight housing for large groups and youth camps. 
  • Market Square will recreate the bustling atmosphere of the heart of a medieval town. Here, visitors can try their hand at a variety of period trades and crafts. The Square will be anchored on one end by a functioning Tavern, and on the other with a medieval style Inn that has all the modern amenities.
  • The street leading up to the gates of the Fortress will be lined with charming, climate-controlled, year-round cottages, forming High Town, perfect for your VIPs, staff, or family gatherings.  Each cottage will have its own bathroom and kitchenette. 

Fort Elsewhere itself will be a stylized recreation of a 13th century Motte featuring a great hall  designed to accomodate up to 200 guests with all the supporting facilities. The Lord and Lady suites atop the hall and the chambers below offer luxury unheard of in the middle ages to wedding parties and overnight events. 

Phase 1 is already underway.  Our next steps are graveling the drive way, running a power line, and building the Inn and Tavern. Here are details on each part:

Part 1 - finish the driveway and run a power line: $18,000

Sitting 3/4 of a mile back from the main road, cutting a driveway out of what has been field and bog has not been easy, especially given the historically rainy year we've had! These funds will be used to gravel the driveway and install a power line. 

Stretch Goal! Part 2 - The Inn and Tavern: $60,000

The Medieval Fortress Town will have a market square, high town, low town, Fortress and fort walls.  The anchors of the market square are the Inn and Tavern, and we are planning to build these two buildings first. Using hay bale construction, we plan to make affordable and durable buildings that evoke a medieval feeling while being comfortable year-round.  These funds will be used to construct these two primary buildings.

After Part 2 is done, Fort Elsewhere will be ready to host your event, with overnight accomodations for 30 people. 

Stretch Goal! Part 3 - High Town: $15,000

The upper class deserve the finer things in life, and that means they get cabins away from the riff-raff.  In this phase we will build 4 individual cabins, each capable of sleeping 5-10 people.  Each cabin will be two stories with seperate living and sleeping spaces and have its own bathroom and kitchenette. 

Stretch Goal! Part 4 - The Fort and Walls: $??,???

We can't be Fort Elsewhere without a Fort! In this phase we will raise money to build a stone fort at the entrance of the Medieval village, and a wall encompassing the village. Featuring multiple stories and a beautiful entry way, this will be an incredible location to hold your wedding, feast, or house the royalty traveling with you on your adventure!  Everything we raise after our first goals are reached will be allocated toward building the Fort itself.

 

What you Get 

As a thank you to everyone who supports Fort Elsewhere we have some great gifts to share with you:

  • Swag
  • Recognition
  • Storage
  • Priority Booking
  • Discounts for the group or event of your choice

Here are more details about these great rewards! 

Group Discounts

Every contribution made to Fort Elsewhere will earn a group or event of your choice a credit towards their site fees.  Every $1.00 contributed equals $1.50 credit, so let us know the group or event that you wish to give your credit to when you make your contribution! 

Recognition and Storage: The Inn, Tavern, and Cemetary

Every contribution counts towards meeting our goal, and some contributions leave an impression that will be visable for the world to see! There are three areas of the Medieval Fortress Town where you can leave your mark: the Inn, the Tavern, and the Cemetary! 

In the Inn you have the option of customizing a  12"x12" section of tapestry that will be custom made to decorate the walls, or the option to customize the door to a cubby or cupboard that you then have exclusive access to for a 5 year period! This means that if you want to store gear to use when you come to visit or explore with a group on a regular basis you will have less to pack!

The Tavern will also have tapestries for customization and storage as well, but the storage will have a themed twist! In the Tavern the storage will be camoflauged in the form of wine racks and wine barrels!  

Since no medieval village would be complete without someplace to put the victims of maurading bandits, famine, or the black plauge, the final place to leave your mark will be the mock cemetary.  Add a name to our pauper's grave wall, customize a wooden grave marker and leave buried treasure behind for curious explorers to find, or choose to have a masoleum built, with a door that you can customize, and spacious storage inside that you have exclusive access to! We are also offering a limited number of deluxe masoleums, with special features that are secret to everyone but those who grab them first!  This fun and spooky way to create ambiance in the village is one you can't pass up! 

Priority Booking

Make a contribution to get first dibs on one of our buildings! Have the perfect day picked out for that event, retreat, or wedding? Grab it first with priority booking as a perk! Know when you want to have your family reunion for the next few years? Make sure no one else takes your date and get a discount on your site fees! 

 

Other Ways You Can Help

Love the project but not able to contribute? We understand, and appreciate your enthusiasum! Please considering spreading the word about our project on Social Media and telling your friends how great Fort Elsewhere is! Recruit friends that donate at least $5,000.00 and mention your referal and we will give you a swag pack and a gravemarker! 

 

Joe and Jovanna Bearden

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Pleasant Peasant Pack

$10 USD $18 USD (44% off)
Show your enthusiasm for Fort Elsewhere with a sticker, a pen, and $15.00 site credit for the group or event of your choice.
Included Items
  • Bumper Sticker
  • Pen
  • Credit for your group or event
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Milk Maid's (or Man's) Mug

$25 USD $48 USD (47% off)
While this will technically hold milk, it's more commonly used for coffee or tea. Enjoy a Fort Elsewhere Mug and $37.50 credit for the group or event of your choice.
Included Items
  • Coffee Mug
  • Credit for your group or event
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Medieval Town Tunic

$50 USD $95 USD (47% off)
Get your t-shirt with limited edition artwork that you won't ever be able to get again, as well as our fabulous milk mug (aka coffee mug*). *Also holds tea. Enjoy earning a $75.00 credit for your group or event.
Included Items
  • Coffee Mug
  • T Shirt
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Commemorative Stone

$50 USD
Make your mark on the Inn! Your inscription, dedication, name, or other short (appropriate) text will commemorate your donation to the Fort. These will be put into a walk near the Inn in the Medieval Village, prominently displayed for all to see.
Included Items
  • Commemorative Stone
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Medieval Town Guard Garb

$100 USD
Defend the realm in a hoodie with limited edition Fort Elsewhere artwork that will never be available again, and earn $150.00 credit for your group or event.
Included Items
  • Hoodie
  • Credit for your group or event
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Town Crier Swag Pack

$100 USD
Here Ye, Here Ye! Share the news about Fort Elsewhere with a friend! Get 2 Milk Maid Mugs (See above for disclaimers on usage & name), and 2 Town Tunic T-Shirts; one for you and one for them! (You can also keep the second one if you want to, we don't judge, the pen and sticker, too!) You'll also get $150 credit for your group or event.
Included Items
  • Bumper Sticker
  • Pen
  • Coffee Mug (2)
  • T Shirt (2)
  • Credit for your group or event
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Lady's Leisure Tapestry Square

$100 USD
Have the Lady of the Fort embroider your logo or family crest onto one of the tapestries hanging in the Inn or Tavern. One square foot of space in a family friendly and period appropriate design that Her Ladyship must approve before creating. (These squares will be edited together into an image that will be printed on a tapestry) + $150 site credit
Included Items
  • 12' x 12' Tapestry Square
  • Credit for your group or event
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Pauper's Gravemaker

$100 USD
Get your very own 6" x 12" space on our Pauper's Grave Wall. Commemorate a person of history, fiction, or memorialize your group or donation. Must be family friendly and period appropriate (bonus points if it's funny!) You'll also receive a $150 site credit towards the group or event of your choice!
Included Items
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Pauper's Gravemarker
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Yeoman's Memorial

$200 USD
Free but rarely prosporous the freeholder whose story has come to an end is remembered as long as his gravemarker weathers the elements. 1' x 2' & etched with a family friendly & period appropriate design of your choice memorializing your character, family, or group. Leave behind funerary objects to bewilder grave robbers. $300 site credit too!
Included Items
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Yeoman's Memorial
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First Dibs - Cabin

$200 USD $300 USD (33% off)
Perfect for your family sized gathering, we will contact you as soon as each cabin comes available so you can book the weekend of your choice. Includes use of 1 cabin and run of the outside amenities of Fort Elsewhere. Includes a Fort Elsewhere goodie-bag!
Included Items
  • Weekend Cabin Rental
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The Merchant's Stash

$250 USD $625 USD (60% off)
This has nothing to do with long, lustrious facial hair but instead gives you a cubic foot of locking storage space for 5 years and the right to emblazen the crest of your merchant house or other family friendly and period appropriate sigil on the door. Also enjoy a $375 site credit for the group or event of your choice.
Included Items
  • The Merchant's Stash
  • Credit for your group or event
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Smuggler's Trove

$350 USD $875 USD (60% off)
Approximately 3 cubic feet of the finest hidden storage secured by lock and disguised as a wine rack or ale keg within the tavern's cellar. You'll also receive a $525 site credit for your group or event.
Included Items
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Wine Rack Storage
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The Trader's Closet

$500 USD $1,250 USD (60% off)
Sized to accomodate a 30 gallon tote, this closet with locking doors is the perfect accomodation for your wares. Customize the locking door with the family friendly and period appropriate design of your choice. Includes a key to the on-site laundry, and site credit for the event or group of your choice.
Included Items
  • Inn Cupboard with Lock
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Access to Onsite Laundry
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First Dibs - Tavern

$500 USD $750 USD (33% off)
Get first dibs for you and your 30 closet friends to use our Tavern and it's kitchen facilities for a day, then crash at the Inn overnight. You'll have exclusive use of Fort Elsewhere, and if you want us to arrangement catering for your event we'd be happy to discuss pricing.
Included Items
  • One Night Tavern Use
  • One Night Inn
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Preferred Booking 1 Event

$600 USD $1,000 USD (40% off)
Prepay your event fees to lock in the lowest rate available for exclusive use of Fort Elsewhere's Medieval Fortress Town. This package allows you to book 1 weekend on a first come first served basis over the next 2 years.
Included Items
  • Discounted Prepaid Event Fee
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Tavern Keep's Horde

$750 USD $1,875 USD (60% off)
Keep your tavern keep happy and well stocked supplies they won't have to lug around everytime they visit the Fort. This storage space is large enough for 2 stacked 30 gallon storage totes, is located in the Tavern near the kitchen, and includes access to the onsite laundry facility and a site credit of $1,125 for your group or event.
Included Items
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Tavern Cupboard with a Lock
  • Access to Onsite Laundry
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First Dibs - Inn

$750 USD $1,000 USD (25% off)
Exclusive use of Fort Elsewhere and access to the Inn and those High Town cabins which are ready at the time of your stay. Bring up to 30 of your closest friends with you in this party sized reservation.
Included Items
  • Weekend Inn Stay
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Sellsword's Armory

$1,000 USD
5 year access to storage that is enough room to store a substantial portion of your team's gear. Will accomodate 5 stacked 30 gallon storage totes and polearms up to 7 feet long. Also includes a key to the onsite laundry facility and a $1500 credit for your group or event.
Included Items
  • Sellsword's Armory
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Access to Onsite Laundry
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Grand Feast

$1,250 USD
Let Fort Elsewhere host your evening party of 30. Providing a catered buffet dinner, enjoy use of our facilities on the day of your choice from 4pm to midnight.
Included Items
  • One Night Tavern Use
  • Catered Meal
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First Dibs - Fort

$2,000 USD
10 Lords and Ladies are invited to be the first to enjoy a stay at the Fort. Enjoy exclusive use of Fort Elsewhere for a weekend, as well as a catered dinner on the night of your choice.
Included Items
  • Catered Meal
  • Overnight at the Fort
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5 Year Preferred Booking

$2,500 USD $5,000 USD (50% off)
Prepay your event fees to lock in the lowest rate available for exclusive use of Fort Elsewhere's Medieval Fortress Town. This package allows you to book 5 weekends on a first come first served basis over the next 5 years.
Included Items
  • Discounted Prepaid Event Fee (5)
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The Noble's Masoleum

$5,000 USD $12,500 USD (60% off)
Bury an important person in the masoleum you help design from the ground up. At least 6'x8'x6' this locking crypt will provide you with enough storage space for your entire group when you aren't using the site, and can even provide an exclusive set for your Fort Elsewhere adventures. Comes with laundry key and site credit of $7500.
Included Items
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Access to Onsite Laundry
  • Masoleum
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The Master's Sepulcher

$10,000 USD $25,000 USD (60% off)
Let your manor lord or lady reside forever in their exclusive gated community in this 8'x10'x8' deluxe fenced storage vault that you can use as a set during your events. With access for 5 years, you also receive a laundry key and site credit of $15,000.
Included Items
  • Credit for your group or event
  • Access to Onsite Laundry
  • Masoleum
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