{"id":3518,"date":"2025-05-13T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T16:18:07","slug":"yogi-bears-jellystone-park-camp-resorts-adds-campground-locations-across-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/yogi-bears-jellystone-park-camp-resorts-adds-campground-locations-across-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogi Bear\u2019s Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts Adds Campground Locations Across North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/Resource\/Download\/9378a07e-84bd-4061-87b3-44ab908738f0\" alt=\"Jellystone Park\u2122 Camp-Resort Network Expands in U.S and\" width=\"624\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yogi Bear\u2019s Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts is continuing to expand across the U.S. and Canada, offering families both new locations as well as more attractions and more ways to stay at existing locations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Our franchisees have not only built new parks from the ground up, but they\u2019ve also rebuilt and expanded existing campgrounds and equipped them with the fun water features and other attractions that make Jellystone Park a favorite family glamping and family camping destination,\u201d said Trent Hershenson, vice president of marketing for Camp Jellystone, the Southfield, Michigan-based company that franchises Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Several new Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts have come online in recent years while existing locations have continued to add more and more attractions like water slides, multilevel splashgrounds, floating obstacle courses, snowless tubing and mini golf, Hershenson said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This year, new Jellystone Park locations are opening in the following locations:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada:<\/b> Maritime Fun Group, which owns and operates leading family amusement parks and attractions in New Brunswick and on Prince Edward Island, will reopen its Cavendish campground this spring as a Jellystone Park location. The campground, formerly known as the Cavendish KOA Holiday, will join the Jellystone Park family before Victoria Day (May 19). Attractions at the new Jellystone Park location will include a swimming pool, a jumping pillow and a petting zoo as well as an RC track where guests can race their remote-controlled cars and trucks or rent ones on-site. The park also has walking and biking trails and a large playground.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Lake Charles, Louisiana:<\/b> Four Points RV Resorts recently acquired LeBleu Lakes RV Resort in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and will convert it to a Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in time for the summer camping season after completing several major improvements. Attractions at the new location will include a swimming pool, water slides, a splashground, jumping pillows and a floating obstacle course. The park will open May 21 with about 200 campsites and will eventually grow to more than 350 sites.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Watts Bar Lake, Tennessee:<\/b> This Jellystone Park location just south of Knoxville opened in February. This summer it will offer two pools, a large splashground with water slides and an outdoor movie theatre. Families will also be able to meet the Yogi Bear characters, take wagon rides, play laser tag and experience gem mining. Luxury glamping cabins and premium RV sites are set among the hills and woods overlooking the lake.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Last year, two other campgrounds joined the Jellystone Park network in the following locations:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Cochran, Georgia:<\/b> Less than an hour south of Macon, this picturesque Jellystone Park location is set among tall trees and boasts a lake and pool, comfortable cabins, and shaded RV sites. Family activities, interactions with the Yogi Bear characters, hiking trails, Wi-Fi and a dog park make for fun family vacations in a relaxing outdoor environment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Zion, Utah:<\/b> The state\u2019s first Jellystone Park location features a huge water zone with two pools, multiple water slides, a lazy river, a splashground, and hot tubs. Luxury cabins, spacious RV sites, and a full schedule of activities make the Camp-Resort near Sand Hollow State Park and Zion National Park a new family favourite.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rv-pro.com\/news\/jellystone-adds-campground-locations-across-north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yogi Bear\u2019s Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts is continuing to expand across the U.S. and Canada, offering families both new locations as well as more attractions and more ways to stay at existing locations. \u201cOur franchisees have not only built new parks from the ground up, but they\u2019ve also rebuilt and expanded existing campgrounds and equipped them with the fun water features and other attractions that make Jellystone Park a favorite family glamping and family camping destination,\u201d said Trent Hershenson, vice president of marketing for Camp Jellystone, the Southfield, Michigan-based company that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3519,"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\/3518"}],"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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvparkiq.com\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}