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Jellystone Park™ Adds Donkeys, Alpacas And Giant Flemish Rabbits To Its Petting Zoo

Jun 14, 2017 | Posted by Michele Wisher |
GLOUCESTER POINT, Va., June 13, 2017 — Jellystone Park is famous for its weekend activities, which range from ceramic and craft classes to digital scavenger hunts to chocolate themed weekends with chocolate pie eating contests, candy bar bingo and chocolate pudding Slip N Slides.

But the Jellystone Park in Gloucester Point has another unique attraction as well: A petting zoo, which recently added donkeys, alpacas, giant Flemish rabbits and Juliana pigs, some of which have been rescued. Other petting zoo animals include miniature horses and goats.

“We think the petting zoo enhances the camping experience for our guests,” said Eileen Gedicke, who co-owns the campground with her husband, Ken. She said different pairings of animals are brought out at different times for guests to enjoy.

The park, with 200 RV and tent sites and 13 rental cabins, offers nature oriented activities as well, including fishing and crabbing along the Severn River, a tributary to Chesapeake Bay, which is a popular destination for kayaking and boating enthusiasts. “From our docks, campers can get out into open water,” Gedicke said.

Families also use Jellystone Park as a base camp for visiting other nearby attractions, including the historic towns of Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown, as well as Busch Gardens.

There are plenty of attractions to keep campers busy at Jellystone Park, however, including a water zone with two 70-foot-long water slides and a splash ground, a swimming pool and kiddie pool; a jumping pillow; a mining sluice; paddle boats, kayaks and aqua trikes as well as new pavilions for special events and a concession center.

Jellystone Park also offers different themed weekend events with Yogi Bear™, Boo Boo™ and Cindy Bear™ throughout spring, summer and fall. Upcoming weekend themes include a “Chocolate Explosion Weekend” July 7-9, with chocolate pudding finger painting, candy bar bingo, a chocolate pie eating contest and a chocolate Slip N Slide. A similar weekend with a s’mores theme is scheduled for Aug. 11-13.

Christmas in July weekends are set for July 21-23 and 28-30 with ornament and gingerbread house making activities, a foam play area, visits by Santa Claus and dancing at a winter ball with the bears.

“Yogi’s Food Frenzy Birthday Celebration” will take place Aug. 25-27 and will include edible crafts, games and activities with food and “an epic food fight.”

For more details on these and other themed weekend activities, please visit www.jellystonegp.com.

 

 

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Ian & Sally Steyn – Larkspur, CO

2009 was our first year as a Jellystone Park™ and since then we have experienced double digit growth.  For 2012, our revenues were up 33% and net operating income was up more than that, year over year! After almost four decades of owning various businesses, converting our campground to a Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park™ Camp-Resort ranks among the smartest decisions.
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Erv & Marilyn Banes – Frankenmuth, MI

We decided to convert to the Jellystone Park™ system in 1996 because the market conditions were changing. Several of our colleagues had converted and grown in the process. We found that by changing our customer base to families, rather than seniors, we expanded.

The advantage of a Jellystone Park™ is that it is so much more alive than the average park. Plu…

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Bill Pott – Cave City, KY

I really like the way it brings me a nice class of customers. I get happy families. I get people who want to come and to spend money to have fun. They enjoy our park. It’s just wonderful they way they come in, and you get so many that want to meet the other guests, they want to go have fun on the Jumping Pillow, then they want to go to the Splash Pad – and they want …
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Roger & Anna Barry – Fremont, IN

When we joined the Jellystone Park™ system in 1980, we were a small operation without a plan. What we have learned through the years from LSI and our fellow Yogi Bear™ owners and operators has been extremely valuable. We now have over 500 sites, RV Sales, waterslides, and a seven family member team of owners and operating managers. We couldn’t have done it w…

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Brent Fannin – Delaware Beaches

2011 was our first year as a Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park™.  We saw record occupancy levels with increases of more than 35% year over year! The addition of nine cabins to our park yielded occupancy levels well over 90% each weekend!  The conversion to a Jellystone Park™ did exactly what we expected – it grew our business.

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Chip Smith – Monticello, IA

We got into the Jellystone brand at the beginning of last year. This is the end of our first season. We are pretty excited about it. What I like most about the brand is the fact that they are drawing in families from three hours away. They all know what we’re there for, and they’re willing to spend a longer time at our park than just the weekend. The investme…
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Theresa Isaacson – Caledonia, WI

We’re going to be entering our 13th season, and I sure would hate to own a property without being Yogi branded. The reason we really like Jellystone Parks is because of the support behind us. With 80 other parks in the system, we have 80 sources of question-and-answer type people to go to. The support is wonderful. The franchise, the LSI system itself – their …

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Rick Spear – Estes Park, CO

We’ve been in the Jellystone franchise system for 20 years this year. It was a family endeavor to begin with, but over those 20 years we’ve seen significant growth of our campground. In particular, just the last three years in a row we’ve been up double digits, 10-11% points three years in a row. We’ve really been coming on strong, and continue to see good grow…
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Denny Quigley & Tami Alessio – Harrisville, PA

2011 was our first year as a Jellystone Park™. Since then, we have definitely noticed that we are attracting a lot more guests from a much larger radius that extends nationwide. And we are seeing more guests from Canada. Over this three year time period, our store sales have increased almost 45%! The increased business also helped to allow us to do…
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Joey Coleman & Rick Coleman – Tabor City, NC

In 2001, we began a unique challenge to build a campground on our family farm 35 miles inland from Myrtle Beach. People responded to our design of large concrete pads, full hook-ups, plenty of open space, and ultimate customer service. But we soon had “growing pains” with procedures and operations.

In 2003, we joined Jellystone Park™. The operations…

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