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Vineyards Campground
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Vineyards Campground
Texas Assoc. of Campground Owners
The Vineyards Campground & Cabins has again won Park of the Year and Best Accommodations awards from the Texas Association of Campground Owners (TACO) in the medium size park category, despite suffering severe floods in 2015 and 2016 that submerged the campground for months at a time, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
“We rebuilt the park and made it even better than it was before,” said Randy Sell, lake, parks and events manager for the Grapevine Parks and Recreation Department. “Most of our 15 park model cabins are already booked every weekend throughout the summer, though we do have some vacancy during the week.”
Park staff had to replace all of its electrical pedestals and most of its utility lines for the 93-site park, which suffered flooding from May through August of 2015 as well as another period of flooding that began in late November 2015 and continued for 2 1/2 months into 2016. But rather than simply repair the damaged power lines and pedestals, Sell said the Grapevine Parks and Recreation Department added new services, including cable television lines and an upgraded WiFi service. They also replaced many of the campground’s asphalt campsites with concrete slabs and installed a new pavilion and restroom facility and made improvements to park buildings.
Campground staff was able to relocate the park’s 15 furnished park model cabins to higher ground, though it still cost $10,000 to relocate them and put them back in place again after the floods. “It was a lot cheaper than replacing each park model. They cost about $35,000 a piece,” Sell said.
The public, for its part, has been very supportive of the campground throughout the rebuilding process and appreciates the improvements, Sell said.
The Vineyards Campground & Cabins occupies 52 acres of an 850-acre mostly wooded scenic area encircling Grapevine Lake.
The Vineyards previously won Park of the Year awards from TACO in 2009, 2011 and 2014. The campground also won a national Park of the Year Award from the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds in 2012.
More information about the Vineyards is available at www.vineyardscampground.com.
Based in Crowley, the Texas Association of Campground Owners represents the legislative interests of private park operators throughout the Lone Star State, in addition to marketing Texas campgrounds, RV parks and resorts to consumers. For more information, please visit www.tacomembers.com as well as the association’s consumer websites at www.texascampgrounds.com and www.texascabinrentals.net.