Rolette County Emergency Management of North Dakota issued the following announcement.
DID YOU KNOW THIS ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDEN?!?!
I checked with the International Peace Garden office and got some pre-COVID attendance numbers from them (they are expecting a return to these numbers in 2022). They had about 33,500 visitors from May-September 2019.
IPG Visitor Numbers
May - 1,553 = about 50 per day
June - 6,722 = about 224 per day
July - 13,709 = about 422 per day
August - 9,093 = about 100 per day
September - 2,377 = about 79 per day
I forgot to ask them about the number of staff and their families that live there. Some are there year-round and others move in during the summer. My guess is that there are anywhere from 50-100 staff members and their family members that live there during the summer.
On top of those numbers the International Music Camp hosts several weeks of residential programming and we have a population that lives at the camp during this time frame. Campers for all weeks other than adult camp are ages 10-18 years old. During Adult Camp the campers are all ages 21 and up. Quite a few of them are 60+. Our oldest camper for that we have had is 98 years old. I am using our 2022 Tentative Dates (they will be finalized this weekend) for these IMC population estimates that would be on top of the International Peace Garden's daily visitors.
-We host a camp clean up and prep weekend - third week in May (30-40 adult volunteers to clean and prep buildings Thursday-Sunday)
IMC Residence Dates
-Opening Up Camp Week: 15 staff (May 30-June 4, 2022)
-Fiddle Week: 80 campers and faculty & 25 staff (June 5-12, 2022)
-Staff Training Week: 50 staff (June 14-18, 2022)
-Week 1 of regular summer programming - 325 campers and faculty & 50 staff (June 19-25, 2022)
-Week 2 of regular summer programming - 325 campers and faculty & 50 staff (June 26-July 2, 2022)
-Week 3 of regular summer programming - 350 campers and faculty & 50 staff (July 3-9, 2022)
-Week 4 of regular summer programming - 350 campers and faculty & 60 staff (July 10-16, 2022)
-Week 5 of regular summer programming - 380 campers and faculty & 60 staff (July 17-23, 2022)
-Week 6 of regular summer programming (Last full week of July) - 450 campers and faculty & 60 staff (July 24-30, 2022)
-Adult Camp - Saturday of Week 6-Wednesday of following week - 250 adult campers (21 and older, mostly seniors) & 40 staff (July 30-August 2, 2022)
-Wednesday-Friday of that same week we pack up for the summer - 40 staff (August 3-5, 2022)
-Our last few staff members leave on Saturday of that week. (August 6, 2022)
-We also host fall retreats that have around 250 students and faculty and up to 10 staff members during the last full week of September.
All of our camper’s families and the general public that comes to concerts are reflected in the International Peace Garden numbers.
Courtesy of Christine Baumann,
International Music Camp Director
Original source can be found here.
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