Each year, the Sacred Cow Camp creates a themed meeting ground where weary Burners can find a good meal and friendly faces.  

In 2011, the Sacred Cowgirl Saloon will recreate the atmosphere of an 1800s gold rush frontier saloon, with twice-nightly sit-down dinners, honky-tonkin’ music, and burlesque dancers.  Come at 4pm to join Chef Cookie for cooking lessons, and wander amongst our “midway” games hosted by Mr. Suisse, including horseshoes, giant dice and crooked poker. The truly brave will test their horseback skills in the ultimate Rite of Passage: a sixty-second ride on Bessie, our bungee bull-riding barrel, as her ropes are viciously yanked by Madame Nav and her Herd of Cowgirls!   

Journeymen can post up at the Bull Corral, or sit on saloon couches getting equal view of the kitchen, street and riding. Beware the notorious Outlaw who lurks in the Saloon, whose heckling can make even the boldest wrangler a shrinking daisy. Thankfully, the town Sheriff, Miracle, will surely appear and maintain comedic order.

The camp is set up for 24 hour unsupervised interactivity with the bungee bull, horseshoes, giant dice and “rope a calf” station perpetually available. The saloon couches offer respite from the sun or a chance to get off dance-weary legs in the eve. Starting at 4p, the camp comes alive! The reservation station opens so you can get a spot in one of our two nightly seatings. Poker tables kick up in the saloon. The Outlaw heckles at the bungee bull. The grill fires up and passersby can get a cooking lesson or help make dinner! The stage really gets going for the second seating, when our in-house band wails away on somewhat unrelated but definitely fantastic music. Then the comedians take to the stage to call out those unlucky enough to be in their view.

Throughout the week, Sacred Cowkids will be inviting those who help us out to a special “last supper” for Bessie, after which she’ll be carried in procession to a burn platform where we’ll sacrifice our beloved bovine to the Gods of Barbecue.