Welcome back, Charlie

As the camping season draws to a close (Holland Lake Campground will officially close on 10/11) . . . we welcome back Charlie Jantzen to fill in for Red for a few weeks.   Red heads back east to begin a new adventure as a married man but will return next Spring when the campground is thawed out enough for camping activity!  He will start getting restless about April 1st to hit the open road and go back to the country he loves! 

Charlie served as camphost at Holland Lake Campground for 17 seasons before relocating his family to Montana from New York and taking over the concessionaire/management duties for the National Park Service.  As his two children, Leona and Chuck, continue that family tradition Charlie looks forward to building new memories here at the campground.   All of his old friends and those new ones he will make are delighted to have him there even for a couple of weeks.

Here is a recent picture of Charlie with a Hwy 83 casualty . . a 2 year old black bear about 75 lbs that frequently visited the Swan Lake Campground.  This is something everyone hates to see as our human world invades the wildlife's territory.