LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Going camping is an activity that my family and friends do every year, including this one. This past Labor Day weekend my family and I decided that we would go back to Jellystone Campground in Warrens, WI like we used to do when I was younger. For me, camping was something I enjoyed doing but this year I was very disappointed. Recently, Jellystone was sold over to new owners who it seems don’t really care about making the campground fun and presentable. I know it isn’t possible to enjoy this campground as much as I did when I was little when I thought everything was amazing, but something about the place with these new owners wasn’t right. When we first arrived we received a flyer of things that were going on or activities to partake in. Although they made those suggestions available to us, it seemed like everything we wanted to do was not taken care of, closed down for the day or just taken out completely. The band that night didn’t show along with the “free fresh cotton candy” guy. The miniature golf course was overgrown with weeds and there was only one golf club allowed per grouping of people. Half of the outdoor water park was shut down and some pools were empty, however, the entire new indoor water park was just shut down completely with storage being held in that area. The indoor and outdoor arcade were both closed and emptied out and the outdoor theater screen was removed. The little train I used to ride when I was young was broken down on the side of a trail for everyone to see and every time you decided to leave your campsite with your golf cart security would stop you at the end of your camping row to make sure you had a valid license.

 I literally got stopped by these so called “guards” at least 20 times. The bathrooms and showering area was about 10-12 rows of campsites over. And if all this wasn’t enough to put a damper on my camping experience, the weather was cloudy and windy at 45 degrees. After shivering my butt off all night long, tossing and turning to keep myself from growing icicles on my nose, we decided to get breakfast inside the “Three Bears Lodge” hotel at Jellystone. Only three tables were taken in the restaurant yet we waited 45 minutes for pancakes that had a full mayfly and a long red hair in them. This was a very disgusting, disappointing camping/Labor Day weekend. I will probably never go back to the Jellystone in Warrens again. :(