Bantam campground reopens
By KAITLIN McCALLUM
BANTAM – After many years, the Cozy Hill Campground will reopen under the management of a former camper.
When Dwayne Caldwell approached his wife, Monica, with a dream of running a campground, the two searched from the Adirondacks to North Carolina before settling on the former Looking Glass Hill property at 1311 Bantam Road, Monica Caldwell said.
“He had been thinking about it and he approached me and he said, ‘I just really want to buy a campground,’” she said. “And I was like, ‘OK,’ and we looked for campgrounds.”
When the couple viewed the property, they weren’t sure about buying it since it did not already have an established client base. But nostalgia won them over, they said.
“This one was actually where my husband, from age 2 to 14, camped every summer with his family,” Monica Caldwell said. “The day he got out of school, they would come up and they would stay until it closed.”
The property had been called Cozy Hill Campground when Dwayne Caldwell camped there with his family, and so when they bought the property in late November, the Caldwells decided to change the name.
They also decided on some updates. The couple, along with their 20-year-old son, has had to contend with the brush that has repossessed the facility in the five years since it was last used. In addition to cleanup, the Caldwells had to renovate the house on the property before they could move into it with their 4-year-old son.
“The pool had caved in and actually had trees growing out of it,” Monica Caldwell said of the in-ground pool they are redoing. “We wanted to update the recreation hall and do it a little different than what they had.”
The couple is also looking forward to putting up a basketball court and a pavilion and will also widen the roads. The site includes a full arcade, toilets and showers, a propane fill station and a fully stocked camp store.
There are RV, tent and pop-up camper sites with or without hookups for electricity. The couple is looking into cable television, Monica Caldwell said. The campground is on the edge of a 10-acre lake and boating is available nearby.
Already a few people have made reservations for the season, which opens May 1 and ends Oct. 15, they said. Reservations can be made for a day, a week or more by calling 567-2119 or visiting www.cozyhills.com.
Kaitlin McCallum is available by email at kmccallum@registercitizen.com.
BANTAM – After many years, the Cozy Hill Campground will reopen under the management of a former camper.
When Dwayne Caldwell approached his wife, Monica, with a dream of running a campground, the two searched from the Adirondacks to North Carolina before settling on the former Looking Glass Hill property at 1311 Bantam Road, Monica Caldwell said.
“He had been thinking about it and he approached me and he said, ‘I just really want to buy a campground,’” she said. “And I was like, ‘OK,’ and we looked for campgrounds.”
When the couple viewed the property, they weren’t sure about buying it since it did not already have an established client base. But nostalgia won them over, they said.
“This one was actually where my husband, from age 2 to 14, camped every summer with his family,” Monica Caldwell said. “The day he got out of school, they would come up and they would stay until it closed.”
The property had been called Cozy Hill Campground when Dwayne Caldwell camped there with his family, and so when they bought the property in late November, the Caldwells decided to change the name.
They also decided on some updates. The couple, along with their 20-year-old son, has had to contend with the brush that has repossessed the facility in the five years since it was last used. In addition to cleanup, the Caldwells had to renovate the house on the property before they could move into it with their 4-year-old son.
“The pool had caved in and actually had trees growing out of it,” Monica Caldwell said of the in-ground pool they are redoing. “We wanted to update the recreation hall and do it a little different than what they had.”
The couple is also looking forward to putting up a basketball court and a pavilion and will also widen the roads. The site includes a full arcade, toilets and showers, a propane fill station and a fully stocked camp store.
There are RV, tent and pop-up camper sites with or without hookups for electricity. The couple is looking into cable television, Monica Caldwell said. The campground is on the edge of a 10-acre lake and boating is available nearby.
Already a few people have made reservations for the season, which opens May 1 and ends Oct. 15, they said. Reservations can be made for a day, a week or more by calling 567-2119 or visiting www.cozyhills.com.
Kaitlin McCallum is available by email at kmccallum@registercitizen.com.
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