Camp Crinkle®

Camp Crinkle is an intimate ABDL camp held at Zesty Cheese Ranch in Goldfield, Nevada. It’s not a convention, and it’s not meant to feel like one. There aren’t endless panels, crowded hotel hallways, or a rigid schedule telling you where to be every hour. Camp is more like spending a week with a group of friends where everyone helps create the experience together.

Programming is attendee-led. We may have games, arts and crafts, story time, tea parties, scavenger hunts, campfires, movie nights, silly competitions, outdoor activities, performances, or something nobody had thought of until that afternoon. If you want something to happen, organize it. Some of the best parts of camp come from campers deciding, “We should do this,” and making it happen.

That flexibility is a big part of Camp Crinkle. If everyone is hungry, dinner might happen early. If the desert heat wipes everyone out, maybe we have nap time and cook later. Things change, people adapt, and the week develops its own rhythm.

Camp is built around a few principles. Inclusion means welcoming campers across ages, genders, orientations, identities, and backgrounds. Gifting means bringing something to share, whether that’s an object, a performance, an activity, cooking a meal, helping someone out, or creating an experience for the group. Communal effort means we cook together, clean together, play together, and build the little world of camp together.

We also believe in radical self-reliance. Campers come prepared physically and emotionally, take care of their own needs, and clean up after themselves. When everyone shows up capable of being a responsible adult, everyone gets a lot more freedom to spend the week being a baby.

Little self-expression is encouraged all week. Wear your cutest baby clothes, bring the things that make you feel little, and express yourself however feels right to you.

Participation is probably the most important part. Camp Crinkle is a gym, not a spa: you get out of it what you put into it. Campers aren’t customers being entertained by staff. The campers are the event. Everyone is encouraged to contribute ideas, activities, gifts, energy, and a willingness to join in.

We also try to practice immediacy. Put the phone down, forget about social media for a while, and actually spend time with the people around you. Camp is small enough that you really get to know people, and that intimacy is a huge part of what makes it special.

Most of all, Camp Crinkle is about being your best little self: genuine, playful, curious, kind, and willing to grow. Come ready to participate, get dusty, wear a lot of diapers, stay up too late, help make dinner, laugh at dumb jokes, and be part of something that feels very different from a typical ABDL convention.