University of Mississippi students are invited to come along with Ole Miss Outdoors on selected football weekends this fall, as OMOD combines outdoor adventure with Rebels football for its Rustic Rebel Road Trips.
The inaugural Rustic Rebel Road Trips feature trips to Fayetteville, Arkansas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Nashville, Tennessee, for camping, outdoor activities and cheering on the Rebels.
The adventures begin Oct. 15 with a trip to Fayetteville. Participants will camp at the 28,370-acre Beaver Lake, also known as the birthplace of the White River. Surrounded by the Ozark Mountains, the lake offers an environment to catch striped bass, large and smallmouth bass, white bass, crappie, bream, channel catfish and more.
Participants will spend part of Saturday fishing, while the rest of the day will be filled with Rebel football versus the Arkansas Razorbacks. Participants will also have opportunities to fish Sunday morning before returning to Oxford.
The cost of the trip is $150 for students and $175 for community members and includes transportation, fishing license fees, camping and fishing gear, park entrance fees and group camp meals.
On Oct. 21, OMOD travels south to Baton Rouge for a biking adventure. Participants will stay in cabins for the weekend and spend Saturday biking around downtown, the LSU campus and across the Mississippi River levee. Following the group ride, OMOD will head to Bogue Chitto State Park to paddle around the cypress-tupelo swamps before returning to the cabin to watch the Rebels.
The group will return to Oxford on Sunday (Oct. 23).
The trip is $160 for students and $185 for community members and includes transportation, all camping and biking gear, park entrance fees and group camp meals.
For the final trip of the year, OMOD heads north to Nashville on Nov. 18 for the Vanderbilt game. Depending on the game time, participants will head to Franklin, Tennessee, before or after the game for indoor rock climbing at The Crag Climbing Gym, which features 6,500 square feet of climbing surface and has more than 65 routes and 50 bouldering problems for all difficulty levels to conquer.
Campers will stay in climate-controlled cabins at Henry Horton State Park.
Cost for this trip is $180 for students and $200 for community members and includes transportation, all camping gear, park entrance fees, gym entrance fee and group camp meals.
Participants are encouraged to bring snacks, money for dining and personal items on all trips. Tickets to the football games are not included in the price.
To register for any of these trips, click here or visit the Turner Center, Room 110.