{"id":2896,"date":"2024-05-10T12:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2024-05-30T12:07:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:07:28","slug":"oak-mountain-state-park-campgrounds-will-reopen-this-month-after-first-major-renovation-in-pelham-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/oak-mountain-state-park-campgrounds-will-reopen-this-month-after-first-major-renovation-in-pelham-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak Mountain State Park Campgrounds Will Reopen This Month After First Major Renovation in Pelham, AL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/dvjZRHYqEcU\/maxresdefault.jpg\" width=\"554\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Oak Mountain State Park&#8217;s campgrounds will reopen this month after major renovations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Some of the upgrades include new ADA Accessible tent and RV sites, along with updated bathhouses, a new dog park, an activity room and a playground.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Guests will also notice RV sites have been upgraded to 50 AMP service.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s not just visitors who are excited about these changes, but employees too.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">David Johnson, a park administrator, said he&#8217;s been looking forward to this for more than two decades.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been here since 2000, I started out here as a park ranger and I remember patrolling through this campground and thinking, wow, it&#8217;s a great campground, but it could use some touch-ups, some renovating,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;And so here we are, 24 years later and we&#8217;re getting that done, so it&#8217;s been exciting to see that happen.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">These renovations are possible because of the general obligation bond that was voted in back in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It gave Alabama&#8217;s State Parks $80 million.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">&#8220;A lot of the things we&#8217;ve done here are things that our customers have wanted over the years,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;They wanted new bathrooms here, you know, wider RV sites, some of them are made a little bit longer to accommodate the bigger RVs, so we listen to their wants and needs and we&#8217;ve delivered.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Two years to the day after the bond was voted in, the first guests will arrive at the newly upgraded campgrounds.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Many of the sites have already been booked for the May 24 opening weekend; however, some are still available.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">You can find more information here.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/article\/oak-mountain-state-park-campgrounds-grand-opening-may-24-outdoors-hiking-camping-biking-ada-accessible\/60754883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Oak Mountain State Park&#8217;s campgrounds will reopen this month after major renovations. Some of the upgrades include new ADA Accessible tent and RV sites, along with updated bathhouses, a new dog park, an activity room and a playground. Guests will also notice RV sites have been upgraded to 50 AMP service. It&#8217;s not just visitors who are excited about these changes, but employees too. David Johnson, a park administrator, said he&#8217;s been looking forward to this for more than two decades. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been here since 2000, I started out&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}