South Park Camp1926

Waupaca County News

July 15, 1926

WAUPACA CAMP SITE THE BEST

Many Improvements Made This Year

NEW KITCHEN IS COMPLETE

Picnic Table On the Grounds –

Bathing Beach Dock Enlarged and Improved

New hedge Is Planted Between South Park and Camp Site

During the past few weeks a large number of improvements have been made at the Waupaca camp site. The appropriations made by the city and the local Chamber of Commerce have been expended to the best of advantage.

There has been put on the grounds, near the middle of the camp site, a four range covered kitchen, and six picnic tables have been placed at various places on the grounds. The dead trees have been trimmed and the grounds cleared and raked, and the bathing beach dock has been repaired and improved.

The Waupaca tourist camp site is a paid camp site, every auto entering the grounds being charged a fee of 50 cents each night. For this small fee the tourist staying at the camp site is given police protection, telephone service, use of the kitchen, clean toilet facilities, and many other things not generally found in camp sites.

Morgan Skinner is now the officer stationed at the camp site and bathing beach, he having gone on duty July 1.

With the improvements that have been made this season the Waupaca camp site is now considered one of the best and most beautiful in the state. It is filled with tourists nearly every night, many of them driving from 25 to 50 miles extra in order to make Waupaca for the night.

Many improvements have also been made this summer at South Park, which adjoins the camp site. A new Spirea Van Hutti hedge has been planted between the park and campsite, and when the hedge is fully grown, the fence which at present divides the park and camp site will be taken down. The fountain, benches and electric light poles in the park have all been repainted this season.

Peter Michelson, the caretaker at the park, is deserving of much credit for the work he does in keeping the park grounds in a beautiful condition.