Vacations at Jellystone

[Joe Tully]

I found a brochure for this campground in New Hampshire a few days ago. I thought it was kind of amusing. :D

http://www.jellystonenh.com/images/yogisign.jpg

www.jellystonenh.com

There must be some other places like this, since the website boasts "Excellence Award Winner in the Yogi System"

Among the activities at the campsite are seeing Yogi, Boo Boo and Cindy, and a Movie or Cartoons Daily.

http://www.jellystonenh.com/images/hayride2.jpg

[Dave Mackey]

Yogi Bear's Jellystone Parks is a franchise of over 70 locations in the United States and Canada. The web site about the whole chain is www.campjellystone.com (http://www.campjellystone.com)

There used to be one in Jackson, NJ, near where I live, but not any more. The only two in NJ are both in South Jersey: one in Mays Landing and one in Elmer.

[BobChief]

There was one of them in western Monroe county in Pennsylvania, on the fringe of the Pocono Mountain region. It was one of the first campgrounds in the whole Northeast to offer cable TV hookups, if you were lucky enough to have one of the few travel-trailer brands that had it at the time (this was the late 70's, when ESPN hadn't caught on yet, and 24-hour news was still a year or so away). The Jellystone company would a few years later be sold to a well-known resort development business based in the Poconos.

I had a laugh...their links page mentions www.hanna-barbera.com, which lately redirects to www.looneytunes.com. Since the only things H-B nowadays are original 'toons airing on CN, shouldn't this url of right point to CartoonNetwork.com??

[Thad Komorowski]

That IS amusing! :D :p


-Thad

[Do-Do]

Interesting......one thing's for sure: I wouldn't have a picnic there! :D

[Greg Method]

Although the Jellystone Parks are a common sight to see during almost any road trip I've been on, what I would like to see are the few Bedrock Towns that are supposedly scattered throughout the west.

I have read about two of them, owned and operated by separate companies. They are set up like Bedrock...stone buildings with costumed Flintstones characters walking around. I'm not too sure on their purpose other than to just see a "real" model of the town.

Apparently one of them was officially authorized by Hanna-Barbera a few years ago, but on the stipulation that the place remove sound effects from the show on their speaker system.

Pretty weird, huh?

[onenr]

There is a Bedrock "Town" between Phoenix and Las Vegas on I believe Hwy 93(?). About 10 years ago it was the only stop on a 3 hour stretch of highway, and as you drove over a hill and saw it in the distance you HAD to stop. It was Bedrock in the middle of bedrock! They had a couple concrete dinosaurs (pretty good sized), Bedrock style houses and the like, mixed in with some un-Bedrock things like a western giftshop and some kind of rocket ship looking structure. Across the two lane highway was a run down gas station that I never remember being open. Recently I was told that the amusement had fixed up some, mostly because of the increase in traffic between the two cities and some road work. If I drive through there again, it's time for pics to post. Onenr





Originally posted by Greg Method
Although the Jellystone Parks are a common sight to see during almost any road trip I've been on, what I would like to see are the few Bedrock Towns that are supposedly scattered throughout the west.

I have read about two of them, owned and operated by separate companies. They are set up like Bedrock...stone buildings with costumed Flintstones characters walking around. I'm not too sure on their purpose other than to just see a "real" model of the town.

Apparently one of them was officially authorized by Hanna-Barbera a few years ago, but on the stipulation that the place remove sound effects from the show on their speaker system.

Pretty weird, huh?

[Jon Cooke]

http://www.flintstonesbedrockcity.com/

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/SDCUSbedrock.html

Also, here's a link to a Bullwinkle Family Restaurant: http://www.wffc.citysearch.com/5.html


-Jon

[angilbas]

Near the Malahat Summit north of Victoria, Canada, there used to be a Yogi Bear-Jellystone Park. It went out of business about 20 years ago. At Hope (about a two-hour drive from Vancouver), a Flintstones site was still present in the spring of 2000.

-Tony

[John-Paul]

There's one in Pennsylvainia too.We were going to go but then there was Sept.11 so.........

[Thad Komorowski]

Hey, that Bullwinkle restaurant doesn't look too bad! But I sure hope the owner isn't that certain moose...:p


-Thad