{"id":3451,"date":"2025-05-07T13:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2025-09-25T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T15:50:10","slug":"a-new-north-trace-rv-resort-planned-on-a-site-north-of-syracuse-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/a-new-north-trace-rv-resort-planned-on-a-site-north-of-syracuse-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A New North Trace RV Resort Planned on a Site North of Syracuse, IN"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rendering of the office for the new North Trace RV Resort (Courtesy Image)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Initial groundwork has just gotten underway on an expansive new 230-site North Trace RV Resort LLC, an upscale development near northern Indiana\u2019s Lake Wawasee spearheaded by Nappanee, Ind.-based RV dealer Steve Showalter in the nearby community of Syracuse.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, inquiries are already being received from area RV builders regarding availability of the County Road #29 facilities for owner rallies, according to Showalter, who\u2019s spearheading the project. He says the projected grand opening for the first 82-site phase is set for next spring, while initial reservations are to be accepted this fall.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited about it, even though it has taken a little bit longer than expected to get going,\u201d said Showalter, owner of Showalter RV Sales & Rentals, who says the whole resort project is a byproduct of he and his wife Junell\u2019s personal RV enjoyment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re big RV enthusiasts ourselves,\u201d stated Showalter, who got his start in the RV rental business in 2015 and now sells towable and used motorized RV\u2019s at his upscale dealership a few miles away. \u201cWe really like them. We became accustomed to them and enjoy resort-style parks even though there aren\u2019t any around here yet.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Resort-style parks like you\u2019d run across in northern Michigan tend to feature paved streets, concrete pads, pools, full hookups and gated, nice, safe, clean environments. \u201cAnd there are some beautiful places in Florida,\u201d he said, \u201cbut just nothing really right around here. So, we just felt like it\u2019s an opportunity for us to invest in our community.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And it makes additional sense to be located in northern Indiana in that so many RV owners from around the country tend to visit the area near the RV-building center of Elkhart County for service. There\u2019s also a pretty strong demand among consumers for enthusiast rallies, for which North Trace will be incorporating an event center. \u201cWe\u2019ve had several manufacturers reach out and say they wanted to have rallies at the resort,\u201d added Showalter. \u201cWell, for that, you need a nice event center. You need a place where you can bring 250 people and serve dinner.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Plans call for the resort to be built in three phases, the first phase including an office, event center, fitness center, pickleball court, dog park, maintenance building, four of the 18 cabins and 82 sites in the southern portion of the resort\u2019s 46 acres. Phase two will involve a pool and 89 additional sites, while the final 59-site segment will be on the north side.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The concrete pads throughout will be 20 feet wide and 65 feet deep with 25 feet of grass between them, and there will be other landscaping throughout, plus \u201cbuddy sites\u201d where two RVs face each other for RVers and friends. Each site will have water, sewer and 50-amp hookups. There will also be pull-through sites for those hauling vehicles behind their units.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have a sidewalk that runs into town so people can walk and ride their bikes to town,\u201d added Showalter, noting that plans call for the park to open from April to October. \u201cWe want to promote the town of Syracuse to our visitors. We want them to go there and use the restaurants.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There will be a privacy fence around the resort, which will be gated with a pass code for accessing the facilities, and there won\u2019t be any permanent-style long-term campers, although visitors are welcome to spend a week, a month or a whole season. \u201cSo, this is only going to be short-term RVing,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to be building sheds and decks, and we\u2019re not putting trailers there and leaving them all year. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re trying to do here.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Initial groundwork has just gotten underway on an expansive new 230-site North Trace RV Resort LLC, an upscale development near northern Indiana\u2019s Lake Wawasee spearheaded by Nappanee, Ind.-based RV dealer Steve Showalter in the nearby community of Syracuse. As a matter of fact, inquiries are already being received from area RV builders regarding availability of the County Road #29 facilities for owner rallies, according to Showalter, who\u2019s spearheading the project. He says the projected grand opening for the first 82-site phase is set for next spring, while initial reservations are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3453,"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\/3451"}],"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=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}