The Brands We're Most Excited to See at Glamping Show Americas 2026
Glamping Show Americas returns to the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds in Aurora, Colorado, September 29-30, 2026, and it's the one place where the whole outdoor hospitality industry shows up under one roof. Glamping Show Americas is bringing 175+ exhibitors and more than 1,500 qualified buyers, plus 100+ full-scale structures you can walk through: domes, yurts, wagons, and more. Add expert sessions on permitting, financing, and marketing, and you've got two days that shape where guests will be sleeping next season.
We'll be there too, at Booth #325. And while we're set up, we'll be walking the floor looking for the brands building something with real intention: owner-led companies making gear and structures that hold up outside, solving real problems for operators and their guests, and growing their communities one show at a time. These are the seven we can't wait to spend time with in Aurora.
Montana Canvas: Built for Montana Winters
Montana Canvas has been cutting and sewing canvas tents in Belgrade, Montana, since 1982. Wall tents for hunters and outfitters, heavy-duty tarps, and a line of glamping tents, all custom built in their Belgrade shop. They even hold a patent on the corner brackets that go into every wall tent they make. The company grew the old-fashioned way, one happy customer telling the next, and it's the kind of shop where some of the crew have been on the job for decades.
Here's why that matters for glamping: a tent built to survive a Montana hunting camp in November is a tent that can handle a full season of guests. Their logic is simple. If it holds up to Montana winters, it'll hold up pretty much anywhere. That's a story made for video: canvas running under the needle, a team that's been doing this for a generation, and tents standing up to real weather in the mountains they come from. It's also a story Montana Canvas hasn't fully told online yet, and we'd love to see it get the spotlight it deserves. Find them at Booth 1006.
Conestoga Wagon Co.: The Resort That Built a Company
Conestoga Wagon Co. started the way a lot of great outdoor businesses do: out of necessity. In February 2015, the founders were building a glamping resort in Idaho, needed wagons and tents fast, and couldn't find anyone to build them. So they built their own, partnering with Montana Canvas for durable canvas and turning out 15 wagons in their first five months. Today, from their home base in Bloomington, Idaho, they've delivered more than 500 custom covered wagons and 240 shower houses across 36 states.
What we love is how they keep evolving: double-canopy insulation, a Lux Wagon with its own private bathroom, cabins, and a Hard Top Lux Wagon they unveiled right here at Glamping Show Americas last year to help campgrounds stretch their season. There's a Midwest thread in their story too. Since 2017, an Amish production team in Shipshewana, Indiana, has helped build components like the wheels. A company that went from operator to manufacturer understands exactly what campground owners are up against, and that perspective makes for storytelling other operators trust. Find them at Booths 1000 and 1001.
Harmony Domes: Ukrainian Craftsmanship, Colorado Home Base
Harmony Domes calls itself the first Colorado-based company offering glamping domes. Founder Vasyl Kostiuk came to the United States from Ukraine at 20, built a successful auto repair business, then spotted a gap in the glamping market and launched Harmony less than a year after the idea hit. Their domes are manufactured in Ukraine, supporting jobs back home, and the lineup has grown to include glass-front premium domes, connected multi-dome layouts, tiny homes, and Nordic log cabins, with hundreds of structures delivered to date.
For a Denver-area team, this week is a home game. Domes are some of the most photogenic structures in outdoor hospitality: stars through the panels, snow on the shell, warm light glowing from inside at dusk. Pair that with a founder story that bridges Ukraine and the Rockies, and you've got content that sells both the product and the people behind it. Find them at Booth 601.
Good inTents: Camping Without the Poles
Good inTents is a Denver company rethinking what a tent can be. Founder and CEO Danielle Williams is a mechanical engineer who looked at one of the most frustrating parts of camping, the poles, and designed them out entirely. The result is the Omega Tent: an inflatable airframe that sets up in minutes, a patent-pending magnetic door, nearly seven-foot ceilings, inflatable shelving, and removable canopies featuring work from collaborating artists. Each tent keeps roughly 300 plastic bottles out of landfills through recycled fabrics, and Williams was honored by Good Business Colorado as an Outstanding Woman in STEM.
The Omega Tent is as at home at a music festival as it is on a glamping site, and that range is what makes it so fun to capture. A tent going from flat to fully standing in a few minutes stops the scroll on its own. Add the artist collaborations and an engineer founder who built the company around joy, and there's a brand story here that goes way beyond specs. Find them at Booth 805.
Rogue Goat Soaps: The Amenity Guests Remember
Not every great glamping brand makes something you sleep in. Rogue Goat Soaps is a small-batch soap maker from the Durango area of southwest Colorado, founded by JJ Johnson, a former butcher who believes in using the whole animal. Her soaps and balms are made with goat milk from a farm in Hesperus, grass-fed beef tallow from local ranchers, and botanicals from her own garden, with no artificial ingredients. The lineup includes goat milk soaps, tallow balms, lotions, beard oil, and even a dog soap she first made for her Newfoundland.
This is the one on our list that's a little different, and that's exactly why we picked it. Guests remember the details: the bar of soap next to the outdoor shower, the balm that rescued their hands after a windy day on the trail. A handmade, locally sourced amenity with a founder story this good helps a glamping stay feel rooted in the place it's in. You'll usually find Rogue Goat at the Durango and Silverton farmers markets, and we're excited to see JJ bring it to a room full of operators. Find them at Booth 421.
Creekside Mallow Co.: A 13-Year-Old's S'mores Dream
Creekside Mallow Co. started with a kid's big idea. After a backyard campfire sleepover celebrating her eighth-grade graduation, the Nelson family's daughter Grace, then 13, suggested opening a gourmet s'mores store. The family spent a year testing recipes, started out catering s'mores for weddings and graduations, got guidance from the Idaho Small Business Development Center, and grew into one of the first gourmet marshmallow companies in the country. Today they make their marshmallows in downtown Caldwell, Idaho, and sell them in all 50 states, including at REI.
The s'mores moment is the heart of almost every campground and glamping stay, and a family marshmallow company born from that exact moment is a story that tells itself. Picture a slow toast over the fire, the stretch of a gourmet marshmallow, and a family recipe that started at a sleepover. Creekside gives operators an easy way to upgrade the most universal camp ritual there is. Find them at Booth 410.
Lightning Nuggets: Fire Starters with Salmon River Roots
Right next door, Lightning Nuggets has been helping people get a fire going since 1978. The company traces its roots to the resin-rich pitch wood along Idaho's Salmon River, and it started in a garage with the founders hand-scooping material on the floor. Today the women-owned company, based in Davenport, Washington, makes all-natural fire starters from repurposed pine and food-grade wax, made in the USA and carried by retailers like Home Depot, Lowe's, and Duluth Trading.
Nearly 50 years in, Lightning Nuggets has the kind of heritage most brands only wish they had, and very little of it shows up online. That's a big opportunity. Every guest who has fought with damp kindling gets the value instantly, and a clean, first-try campfire is some of the most satisfying footage you can put on a screen. Put them next to Creekside, and Booths 410 and 411 are basically the unofficial s'mores corner of the show. Find them at Booth 411.
Why These Brands Feel Like "Our People"
Across Montana Canvas, Conestoga Wagon Co., Harmony Domes, Good inTents, Rogue Goat Soaps, Creekside Mallow Co., and Lightning Nuggets, there's a thread we recognize. Each one owns its own lane, from the tent to the campfire to the soap by the shower. They're owner-led, close to their customers, and building things that have to work outside, in real weather, with real guests. And every one of them has a story that plays better on camera than on a spec sheet.
At a show that brings the outdoor hospitality industry to Aurora for two days of structures, sessions, and conversations, these are the brands we're excited to support, spend time with, and capture in their element.
This is going to be fun.
Your Glamping Show Story Deserves Great Storytelling
If you see your brand in the same lane as Montana Canvas, Conestoga Wagon Co., Harmony Domes, Good inTents, Rogue Goat Soaps, Creekside Mallow Co., or Lightning Nuggets, you're exactly who this Field Note was written for. You're investing real time, money, and energy to show up at Glamping Show Americas in Aurora, build out a booth, and get in front of more than 1,500 buyers who could put your product in front of thousands of guests.
Great shows deserve more than phone photos and a rushed Reel at the end of a long day. Operators buy what they can picture on their own property. They need to see your structure at golden hour, your product in a guest's hands, and your team explaining why you built it the way you did. That's the content that keeps selling long after the booth is packed up and the trailer is rolling home on I-70.
At Aspen Creative Co, this is the lane we live in:
Adventure, outdoor, and glamping brands who care about community as much as conversion
Owner-led teams who don't want a giant agency, just a trusted content partner
Products that prove themselves outside, where real-world performance matters more than polished specs
Come say hi at Booth #325. On Tuesday, September 29, from 2:10 to 2:55 PM, we're presenting "Telling Your Outdoor Story: Building a Destination People Want to Visit," a practical session on building a consistent brand voice across your website, social, email, and guest communication, and putting that voice to work in the AI tools you already use.
If you're bringing your brand to Aurora and want to turn two days on the show floor into months of on-brand photos and video you can actually use, let's talk. Head over to our Get Started page, tell us a bit about your brand and your Glamping Show plans, and we'll map out a content plan that fits your booth, your schedule, and your budget. Grand Canyon quality on a state park budget.