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Galveston Family Beach Challenge

About The Challenge
The Galveston Beach Family Challenge is designed to team up families to compete in fun games and activities suitable for everyone of all ages. The challenge will transform a portion of Galveston’s East Beach into a gigantic obstacle course, allowing families to compete in life-size versions of classic games.
From the official website, the story behind the challenge:
“We believe in family values and when you combine those with a fun beach challenge you can only get life-time memories with your loved ones.”
This year’s challenge will take place on June 12, 2022 at East Beach in Galveston.
This is a great way to involve the whole family for a day of friendly competition right on a Galveston beach!

Galveston Beach Family: Fun
Designed to create a fun environment for the entire family. Bring everyone, this beach challenge is ideal for the youngest to the oldest and has been created with that in mind.
The Galveston Beach Family Challenge consists of 14 Stations that allow family members (and even their friends) to compete one on one – or as a family – against another participating family.
Each family has the opportunity to participate no more than five times per station in a period of 4.5 hours.
Galveston Beach Family: Competition
Just like you’ve seen on TV, friendly competition among families makes for so much more fun because everyone gets involved. This helps teach the younger family members the purpose of teamwork, while still having fun.
Galveston Beach Family: Unique Activities
The Galveston Beach Challenge is the first to offer family-friendly activities on the beach in Galveston, suitable for kids and adults.
The course includes 14 stations for kids and adults with eight new stations this year, including a bean bag game, a life-size battle ship game, limbo, volley balloon, “beam” bag, giant Connect Four and more.
Galveston Beach Family: Rewarding
Join in for the comradery as well as the fun and amazing prizes for the winners. Everyone wins and some get medals and trophies too. The event is free and participants will have a chance to win the grand prize of a $500 gift card plus tickets to popular Galveston attractions.

From the Families
“Galveston Challenge is so much fun, we love every obstacle, specially the volleyball and the giant Jenga, will definitely keep participating for future events.”
“We’ve always seen cool stuff on TV for families to do but never really witnessed one or much less participated in an activity. The Galveston Beach Family Challenge has been a great and fun experience for my family and I. It’s fun, it’s competitive and it’s very unique – I’m glad we get to have these sort of activities…”
“Love the Galveston Challenge, brings the families together for a day of fun. My husband and I love how much fun our kids have competing against others kids. Thank you Galveston for this magnificent event.”

How to Register
For more information you can check out the details on the official Facebook page or see the website.
It’s free and offers some amazing prizes, to register your family for the upcoming Beach Challenge, here is the registration page.
“We’ve always seen cool stuff on TV for families to do but never really witnessed one or much less participated in an activity. The Galveston Beach Family Challenge has been a great and fun experience for my family and I. It’s fun, it’s competitive and it’s very unique – I’m glad we get to have these sort of activities…”
“Love the Galveston Challenge, brings the families together for a day of fun. My husband and I love how much fun our kids have competing against others kids. Thank you Galveston for this magnificent event.”


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