2010 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

April 2010

Wow, what a winter this was! For the past several years, we've had mild winters and very little snow. But this winter was certainly different - really cold and over 40 inches of snow!

The first snow came the weekend before Christmas - that one was 17 inches. Over the next few weeks we had a couple of 9 inch snowfalls and several 2-3 inch snows. It was pretty, but we're sure glad it's gone.

We had our park rewiring project planned for this winter and had gotten far enough along that there was no turning back when the bad weather started. We had to dig a trench 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep all around the park for the new wiring. That was more difficult than it sounds - the ground here is 20% dirt, 40% big rocks and 40% really big rocks. You only need to look at the stream bed to understand what I mean.

We had just finished digging the trench when the first snow storm came. Did you know that 17 inches of snow will somehow more than fill a 24 inch deep trench? Like so many other projects, this one took much longer than expected.


Conduits running through site 16	Looking south from site 20

Looking east from site 32 towards site 40	New service panel between sites 26 & 28

Since we already had a trench dug around the park, we took the opportunity to put in cable TV. The local cable company was not willing to run cable this far up the mountain, so we became our own cable TV company. Equipment was installed that is similar to what the big cable companies use (just on a smaller scale). This equipment brings in TV signals by satellite and converts them into a single multiplexed signal that can be sent out over a single cable to the sites.

Equipment for Cable TV

It was a lot of work, but everything has been put back together and you really can't tell that the sites had been torn up. We're really glad that this is behind us now and probably won't EVER plan another project that involves tearing up all of the sites at the same time. That's simply a very expensive way of intentionally subjecting yourself to a lot of needless pressure and aggravation - sorta like playing golf.

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