Snowcat Ridge is the latest project by Point Summit the company behind Scream-a-Geddon, Indy Scream Park, White River Paintball and TreeHoppers located in Dade City, FL and Anderson, IN.

Point Summit produces multi-million dollar facilities and hires the top of the top experts in marketing to promote their attractions.

In recent years, the Indy Scream Park attraction has drawn 40-50k attendees annually over the past 11 years and Scream-a-Geddon the same, over the past 5 years. These parks are only open nights and weekends.

The full marketing roll out for Snowcat Ridge will launch mid October and will feature the Alpine Village Holiday Market.

The full marketing plan will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars across radio, tv, high trafficked billboards across the Tampa Bay and digital advertising across Google, Instagram, Facebook and more.

30 minutes north of Tampa:

27839 Saint Joe Road
Dade City, FL 33525

Snowcat Ridge will have a full concessions, kettle corn, bar and drinks portion of the village. This means that any competing food and beverage makers will not be allowed into the market.

What IS acceptable are prepackaged foods that giftable and are not normally consumed on the spot, like chocolates, jams, dips, spices, bars, mixers, honeys, sauces, etc.

FULL DAYS – The facility is open from 9am-11:00pm and we ask makers to be present during peak hours. Makers are required to be fully set up and selling 11:00am-9:00pm but may come the full time the facility is open. Finalized hours will be in your information packs once accepted.

HALF DAYS – The facility is open from 3:00pm-11:00pm and we require makers to be fully set up and selling 5:00pm-9:00pm. Finalized hours will be in your information packs once accepted.

Please note, we as a group would like all makers to be present during peak hours so that the market feels full and sales are ample for all makers. You are paying for this booth so we encourage you to come as much as you can, but understand that a 14-hour day is a long day!

Attendees will arrive with a 2 hour ski lift pass at the beginning of the day, and so the first hour or two may be a bit slower with attendees picking up as the day goes on. The facility is currently allowed to accept 500 attendees in every hour.

Makers are not allowed to set up, tear down or bring merchandise in and out of the facility during open hours. Makers may quietly open or close their cottage and slip out as needed, but no carts will be allowed during open hours.

Restocking may be done daily during hours the facility is not open to the public. Makers may come 30 minutes before the park opens with new products.

Set up hours:
Season Long Makers: Set up will be days before opening.
Weekly Makers: Thursday morning 3 hours before opening.
Weekend Only Makers: Saturday mornings from 6am-8:30am.
Makers must be fully loaded in and set up 30 minutes before opening.

All makers will have a free parking pass, and those makers that arrive to the facility 30+ minutes before opening will be allowed to park in the staff parking area. Those makers that arrive during the open hours of the market, will show their passes for free parking and will park in the general parking lots.

Makers will be allowed to enter through the staff entrance where they will be temperature checked daily and masks will be required to enter the facility for our Makers.

The village will be comprised of 10’x10′ white high-peaked high-quality permanent tents (not pop up tents) that will be provided. Tables and chairs will not be provided as we allow for makers to fully customize their spaces.

A similar look can be seen in past years of the Philadelphia Holiday Market. These tents are commercial grade and will be fully secured to the ground.

ELECTRICITY:
All booths come with basic electricity that can power LED lights and cellphones, if you have extra needs beyond a regular 12v plug and draw a lot of power, you MUST get this cleared by our team ahead of time and put this on your application.

Each tent will have 4 solid paned tent walls so that a maker can secure their booth overnight.

Our team will have overnight security each night but we are not liable for items in your booth so please take care to secure your items in bins or locked in chests overnight as well as close your booth up fully.

We highly suggest that makers keep their displays overnight and valuables taken home each night.

Please note makers are not allowed to bring in products during facility open hours.

Makers are artists, writers, photographers, collectors and designers, they are the creators and dreamers that are driven to create the next great brands of the future.

We accept applications from makers with:
Vintage or antique collectables
High quality craft and handmade items
Up-cycled or restored salvage
Artists
Up-and-coming brands

We do not accept makers with:
Direct sales & multi level marketing (Mary Kay, LulaRoe, It Works, LipSense, Scentsy, etc).
Wholesale distributors (This is in contrast to a boutique)
Franchises

We are a family friendly event and also do not accept makers with:
Weapons
Products with hateful messages
Drug paraphernalia/products and messaging that promote drugs
Curative products like CBD oils or pain relievers.

We do not issue any refunds or credits unless the facility is closed due to COVID regulations.

We highly suggest you check out Event Helper and consider business, weather and event insurance as they help cover your costs in case of emergency or natural disaster. The slopes will close for one hour if there is lightning but the park will remain open. Our team is here to help with any documentation your insurance may need in case of an unforeseen event.

In the unlikely event the market is cancelled due to COVID regulations shutting down the facility we will credit makers $100 a day up to their booth amount. If the entire week is cancelled we will refund the booth fee.

As a separate note, in the case that you have to cancel or simply cannot attend please email snowcat@marketsformakers.com as soon as possible. Day-of cancellations and no shows without any communication can affect future acceptances and can result in being removed from future weeks of the Snowcat Market you have already been accepted to.

Please see COVID-19 tab above for more info.

If you apply by October 20th you will hear from our team by the end of the day on October 21st.

If you have applied after October 20th You will be notified if you have been accepted. If you wish to email us about the status of your application and you have not heard back within 2 weeks, please do so at snowcat@marketsformakers.com .

We send acceptances to all makers at least one month prior to a market.