OCEAN CITY – Ocean City Jeep Week will return this year, but on a different weekend.
On Tuesday, the Ocean City Council voted to approve the return of Ocean City Jeep Week, scheduled for May 9-12, 2024. Applicant Amanda Cropper, representing OC4WD, said the change of date is just one change meant to boost participation in the yearly event.
“During COVID we did see a huge drop in numbers, dropping down to about 750 participants,” she said. “So we would like to get our numbers back and possibly surpass what we had previously.”
Last year, the town’s special events department received applications for two Jeep-related events on the same week in August 2024. While one of those events – Ocean City Jeep Fest – was approved by the council last week, Jeep Week organizers opted to move their event to a new weekend, May 9-12.
Jeep Week representative Will Lynch told the council Tuesday the move was made so as not to compete with the Great Smokey Mountain Jeep Invasion. He said the scale of the Tennessee-based event made it difficult to attract vendors and participants to Ocean City.
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