2011 Mountain Stream RV Park News

"The Prettiest Little Park This Side Of Heaven"

6954 Buck Creek Road---Marion, NC 28752
Phone: 828-724-9013

Toll Free: 877-724-9013
Owners: Ron and Becky Johnston

Current News

October 2010

Mitch Faulk was the winner of Mountain Stream's 12th Annual Chili Cook-Off. There were six entries this year. Each one had a unique flavor and all were good, but the majority of the judges thought Mitch's chili was the best. The 2011 Chili Cook-Off will be October 15th. Dig out your best chili recipe cook up an entry for the 13th Annual Chili Cook-Off!

Mitch Faulk - Winner of the 12th Annual Chili Cook-Off

October - November 2010

The first of our projects for the off-season was building some new decks. Larry Miller, one of our campers, built three new decks for us. The old decks on sites 14 & 20 were replaced with new, larger ones and a deck was added to site 15. This new deck goes out over the water like the deck on site 16.


Larry Miller	New deck on site 14

New deck on site 15	New deck on site 20

Winter 2011

Well, we had more snow than usual again this winter -20 some inches but nothing like the 40+ inches we had last year. There were a couple of storms with accumulations of 7 inches or more plus a few lesser snow falls. Pretty to look at, but really makes it hard to get work done outside. During one of the heavier snow falls in January, out mail box had a close encounter of the snow plow kind. I think the snow plow faired better than the mail box.


Pretty - if you don't have to work outside	Oops!

This winter we replaced all of the railings throughout the park. The old under rail lighting was replaced as well. Originally, this lighting was by incandescent bulbs. Over the past couple of years we had replaced the incandescent bulbs with CFL bulbs. The CFL bulbs give off more light on less wattage, so they saved some on the electric bill, but they're more expensive to buy and don't hold up as well out in the weather. So, we've changed to rope lighting on the new railings. Hopefully, this works out well, but we'll just have to wait and see. Let us know how you like them.


New railings around the bath house	New railings at the west end of the park

Another project this winter was finishing the picnic table project. Two years ago, we replaced 25 of the picnic tables. 12 of these were put in the pavilion and the others went out on the sites. Originally we planned to do the rest of the tables the following year, but because of all the snow last year the site wiring and cable TV projects took much longer than expected, the tables didn't get done.

So this year, we replaced the remaining tables and refinished the original 25. We put three coats of urethane on the first batch of tables. The tables under the pavilion held up real well over the two seasons, but there was some deterioration of the finish on the tables on a couple of the less shady sites. So we put four coats on this batch. Even so, it looks like we'll need to put another coat or two of urethane on the tables each winter if we want to keep them looking nice.


Tables under construction	Finished Tables

A lot of folks seem to think the off-season is four months of laying around doing nothing for us, but actually this is when we work the hardest. Also, during the off-season there's a lot money spent on the projects but no income coming in. We're glad to see the camping season roll around again - and have some revenue coming in. So, y'all come!

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