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North Country Boomerang

June 19, 2014

GLAMPING DEBUTS ON WEST BANK ROAD

Jane Maya Rolls in 54 Recreational Park Trailers to Provide a Glamorous Camping

Experience.

by Damon Suarez, Boomerang Reporter

Last Monday, a red GMC Denali towing a white recreational trailer rolled down the
Tepee Campground drive toward the rental office, past a row of new modern wood-paneled
cabins.

The sport utility vehicle was pushed down in the back by the weight of the trailer. Jane
Maya, owner of Tepee Campground, guessed the SUV and trailer measured about 55 feet, still
shy of the campsite’s limit of 78 feet for recreational vehicles (RVs).

“That’s not even as big as the biggest RV trailers,” she said, noting the Denali and trailer
didn’t compare to the mega land yachts that come to her campground on West Bank Road.

After parking, the owner turned on a gas-powered generator to run his air conditioner
and appliances. The loud hum was expected to reverberate throughout the campground until
his departure.

In contrast, Maya’s new mobile “cabins” -- which are called recreational park trailers or
RPTs -- took up just 39 feet of each RV slot on which they sat. They too are on wheels, and
were towed by light-duty pickup trucks. But with electricity already hooked up, there were no
noisy generators needed.

Guests at some of the new cabins sat on the front porch, sipping soda.

“This is so much more subdued and quiet, like being in the outdoors was meant to be,”
Maya said of the cabins, which she trucked in last week. “But it’s the same use.”

With the arrival of the mobile cabins, Maya estimates the number of guests such as
those driving the big diesel Denali and trailer will decrease by hundreds. In doing so, she will