The free outdoor community group for gay men hosts a daytime campout in Dolores Park on June 28 — a low-key alternative to the Civic Center crowd on the biggest day of Pride weekend.

Trailhead Gays, the free outdoor collective for gay men founded by Gio Orantes, is hosting a daytime campout in Dolores Park on Sunday, June 28 — Pride Sunday, the same day as the main parade and Civic Center celebration. The event is free; registration is at trailheadgays.com. Exact start time hadn't been published as of this writing, so check the site before you go.

The group, which Orantes built from a few friends doing monthly hikes into a 50-plus-person regular crowd, runs free events year-round — hikes, camping trips, backpacking — but the Dolores campout is one of two Pride-month anchors this year. (The other was an Angel Island hike on June 21.) The collective has been drawing people new to the city particularly; a lot of participants don't have cars, so carpooling became part of the social glue.

Dolores Park is at Dolores St. and 19th St. in the Mission. BART to 24th St. Mission is the cleanest approach; the J Church stops at Church and 18th, one block away. On Pride Sunday, Civic Center is packed from 11am to 6pm, and Dolores fills up on its own regardless — so if you're planning to be in the park anyway, this gives you people to be there with.

If you only have two hours, skip the Civic Center crowds, take the J to Dolores, and find the Trailhead Gays setup. The park in June is the move anyway.