(Wahpeton)– Some changes could be in store for the campground at Gull Point State Park. Jake Schaben, Northwest Iowa Park Supervisor for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources tells KUOO news the changes being proposed are somewhat similar to those made at the Marble Beach Campground a couple of years ago…
“Kind of the general overall plan would be to add some additional 50 amp electrical sites and add some full hook-up camp sites to the campground, and nothing would be outside of the general footprint of the current campground that we already have up there. That’s something that we need to make sure everybody’s aware of. Will there still be roughly the same number of sites? So most likely the site number will probably go down. I believe that there’s 110 sites there currently and it will probably go down somewhere into the 70’s region.”
Schaben is quick to point out though that the proposed plans have not yet been put on paper…
“We plan to put out a press release and hold potentially an open house sometime yet either late this summer or fall when we do have finalized plans, because right now we are still in the planning and coordination phase of this campground renovation and we don’t really have any sort of finalized plans to get to the public at this time. But like I said, when that happens we’ll be happy to release that out to the public and open it up for public comment and try to keep things as transparent as possible so everybody knows what we’re planning. We don’t want anybody to fell like they don’t know anything about this. That’s not the goal of this situation. Like I said there is no finalized plans at this time but once we have something on paper we will hold a public meeting on it.”
Schaben adds it’s been many years since any renovations have taken place at Gull Point.
He says there are no plans for any changes as of now at the Emerson Bay site, a short distance from Gull Point.
