Twenty Percent Of Jellystone Parks Earn 5w / 5w Ratings In Woodall's Campground Directory
Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts are among the highest rated campgrounds in the country, with 20 percent of Jellystone Parks receiving 5W / 5W ratings in the 2011 edition of the Woodall's North American Campground Directory.
- (1888PressRelease) June 17, 2011 - Milford, OH - "We're obviously pleased that Woodall's finds many our parks worthy of their highest ratings," said Rob Schutter, COO of Milford, Ohio-based Leisure Systems Inc., which is actively recruiting high quality independent parks to join the Jellystone Park franchise system.
While Jellystone Parks are famous for offering their guests unique family activities and special themed weekends, the Woodall's rankings focus on the park's recreational and physical facilities, including its physical grounds, roads, campsites, hookups, and restrooms. Woodall's rates park by assigning them 1W to 5W ratings for both park facilities and recreation.
According to the Woodall's 2011 directory, top rated parks in the Jellystone Park system are located in the following cities:
- Amboy, Illinois: Amenities include a double-plume waterslide, miniature golf, a gem-mining sluice, an outdoor movie theater, two entertainment stages and four playgrounds, plus three swimming pools, two kiddie pools, two adult spas and two fishing lakes with paddle boat and kayak rentals. The 700-site campground in Amboy, Illinois also offers a variety of rental accommodations, including discovery tents, cabins, cottages and park models.
- Fremont, Indiana: This park features three outdoor pools, one indoor pool, a splash park, and a ZoomFlume waterslide that includes a speed and tube slide. The Fremont Indiana campground also offers miniature golf. Rental accommodations include rustic and deluxe cabins.
- Lawrence, Kansas: Amenities at this park include a swimming pool and jumping pillow as well as pedal car and canoe rentals. The Lawrence Kansas RV park also offers RV rentals in addition to cabin and park model accommodations.
- Hagerstown, Maryland: This park features two 400-foot water slides, Ranger's Revenge and Picnic Plunge, and a 3,200 square foot heated interactive pool with a beach entry full of bubblers, an 8-foot Raindrop, built-in seating for adults with hydro-therapy jets, fountain jets that spray across the width of the pool, plus volleyball nets. Other amenities at the campground in Hagerstown Maryland include a new Water Wars battle station, LaZer Tag, a 1,000-foot pedal cart track and miniature golf. Accommodations include luxury and cozy cabins.
- Frankenmuth, Michigan: Amenities at this Michigan Campground include miniature golf, a 25- by 52-foot indoor pool and a 12- by 12-foot adults only hot tub. Rental trailers and cabins are also available.
- Austin, Minnesota: This southern Minnesota RV park features a new jumping pillow, three water slides, a gem mining sluice, cycle and pedal cart rentals, mini golf, animal petting pens, kids train and hay wagon rides, fishing ponds and pedal boats. Rental accommodations include rustic and park model cabins.
- Pelahatchie, Mississippi: Amenities at this park include mini golf, wagon rides, a fishing lake, outdoor theater and a splash playground with a huge picnic basket that dumps water. The central Mississippi campground also offers cabin and lodge rentals.
- North Hudson, New York: This upstate New York RV park has a jumping pillow, a gem mining sluice, train rides, pedal carts and a ceramics center. Rental accommodations include rustic cabins, park models and trailers.
- Gardiner, New York: Located in New York's famed Hudson River Valley, this park offers loft and gable roof cabin rentals in addition to RV and tent sites. The southeastern New York campground is close to many popular tourist attractions, including Springwood, the estate of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and site of the nation's first Presidential Library; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the Vanderbilt Museum and Garden; and the historic town of Newburgh, which is home to the Orange County Choppers, a custom motorcycle manufacturer featured on the Discovery Channel.
- Woodridge, New York: This park, situated in the Catskill Mountains, offers outdoor laser tag, two children's playgrounds, a five-acre lake stocked with bass and bluegills, rowboat and paddleboat rentals and fire truck rides. Cabin, park model and trailer rentals are also available at the Woodridge NY campground.
- Harrisville, Pennsylvania: This park, which just recently joined the Jellystone Park chain, offers a swimming pool, miniature golf, four-wheel bike rentals and hiking trails. This Harrisville PA campground offers Rental cabins, park models and yurts.
- Mill Run, Pennsylvania: This park's amenities include paint ball, mini golf, a mining sluice, two swimming pools, waterslides, and a splash park. The park also has a professional massage therapist. Rental accommodations range from basic cabins to park models and RVs at this Mill Run Pennsylvania campground.
- Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Located near Great Smoky Mountains National Park, this wooded and scenic Tennessee RV park features swimming and kiddie pools, a playground, miniature golf and a Yogi Theater. Rental accommodations include rustic and deluxe cabins.
- Caledonia, Wisconsin: Amenities at this park include a dunk tank, a jumping pillow, fishing pond, splashground with two waterslides, carpet ball (a cross between shuffleboard and pool) and an outdoor theater. Cabin rentals at the Caledonia WI campground are also available.
- Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin: This RV park at Wisconsin Dells offers a water playground with water slides and rental accommodations range from basic cabins to park models and yurts.
- Niagara Falls, Ontario: This family campground in Ontario features a large heated pool and kiddie pool, an 18 hole miniature golf course, pedal cart rentals, wagon rides and a movie theatre. Shuttle rides to the falls are also available as well as cabin and park model rentals.
About Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts
Launched in 1969, the Jellystone Park system is the second largest chain of campgrounds in the United States, boasting 75 campgrounds with more than 15,000 campsites in 28 states and Canada. Its Camp-Resorts are among the best campgrounds in the industry with a quality reputation for being fun, friendly, clean and service-oriented parks. Additionally, each Jellystone Park is themed with Yogi Bear elements providing instant recognition and consumer appeal. It is truly a place "Where You Camp With Friends."
Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts are franchised through Leisure Systems, Inc. (LSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Park River Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit http://www.campjellystone.com
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