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TsPlace
Winchester, VA USA
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Does anyone know what is going on with this campground? I heard through the grapevine that the owners had sold the campground and now a corporate company owes it. Apparently, they had actually bought several campgrounds throughout that area early Fall. I tried to go to their website, but it's offline now. Just curious if anyone had heard anything.
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Drbolasky
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Very possible it was purchased by some other party. My Pennsylvania CG guide for a previous year lists the owners as Jim & Sylvia Cox. The 2005 PA CG guide lists Appalachian Campsites as before but there is no owner or managers name listed.
There has been a small boom in real estate in that area ever since Cabela's opened (just north of the I-78/PA Rt. 61 interchange) last year. Area CG's have raised their rates to transients a little bit; raised their rates to seasonals a lot. One CG owner told me they make more money off the transient crowd so some seasonal contracts are not being renewed in their CG.
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aaron99
Shippensburg, PA
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I haven't heard anything about that yet. We had plans to stay there the first weekend in April. I will keep checking and if I hear anything I will let you know.
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aaron99
Shippensburg, PA
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I forgot to tell you that I did manage to get onto their site a few weeks ago. I wouldn’t swear to it, but I thought I looked at the 2005 activities schedule. We had made plans to stay there the opening weekend since they had 50% off. Now the site if off line. Maybe they just forgot to pay the bill 
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TsPlace
Winchester, VA USA
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I think I might take a trip up there this weekend, I'll see what is going on, if there is someone to talk to me. I'll let you all know what I find out.
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TsPlace
Winchester, VA USA
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Campground is still up and running....yes a corporation has bought the place "Diversified Investments". They have new managers & new asst. managers. They were actually there redoing/painting the main building and working on things indoors since it's cold. For winter months if you are coming in late, you can find a spot and then pay in the office in the morning (something a little different than before). That area had terrible rains for 3 days so some of the sites had water still standing on them - there are apparently some sites that the new managers know about that have been a "water" problem and they said come spring they would like to fix them. There were some people there, mainly some seasonals doing some work, and 2 or 3 transits. One of the bathhouses is open (has 5 individual bathrooms in it)- all are heated and clean. The other bathhouse was closed for the winter. So only time will tell on how it goes come warmer weather. **I did ask about their website and they said they are redoing it**
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bigdisme
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To my fellow campers...
WISCONSIN DELLS, WI FEELS YOUR PAIN !
I feel your pain ! as well as all the other campers at our campground in Wisconsin... purchased by Diversified Investments.
DI bought our campground (Arrowhead Resort Campground) late in 2004,
Made us a ton of promises... kept none...
I've been a seasonal camper there with my family for the past 8 years.
Have you checked out their website ? www.rvinthesun.com ? yeah have fun there...
Anyway, I don't have a lot of time to type in here... but be careful of this company and any campground they own... I think they could write a book entitled, How to ruin a succesful campground business in less than a year...
The rules and policies are rediculous let me list what I can remember, every week has been a new rule, and new policy... I think they don't want people to camp there...
- no food or drink of any kind in pool area
- no lights in trees (you know camping lights on a string)
- no requesting sites for weekenders
- fees for everything bottom line with this place is $$$$$$
- no drinks (alcohol) off your site, unless in a covered container
- 50.00/mo fee to store a boat in a field
- must skirt all trailers
- only 6 people on a contract can stay at trailer
- increased fees for guests
the past 3 weekends has had only 8 people in the park as weekenders... this park has ~220 weekend sites available. All the hired help has quite.
My family loved to go to Arrowhead, every weekend from 4/15 - 10/15, not any more, this will be our last year, we are moving out...
ARROWHEAD is not recomended, and from what I read, stay away from any Diversified Investment, owned campgrounds ! use the link above, and know what to avoid...
you will be treated like trash.... This company has no clue on how to run a campground, nor how to look for managmenet of campgrounds that have any customer service....
as I asked one of the workers as they quite this past weekend, where are you going...? "ANYWHERE BUT HERE ! "
Sorry, not enought time to elaborate this afternoon.. gotta run
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