Why would you hold a groundbreaking ceremony when launching your fifth year’s opening day? Because you’ve got Cabin Fever, and haven’t even begun to stop growing your enterprise.
Mark and Karla Lemoine looked at the snow falling on April Fool’s Day, shrugged it off and continued crafting plans for opening day with a true Cabin Fever attitude toward the momentum they are building at their Coloma/St. Joseph KOA Holiday in Hagar Township.
As owners and managing partners there, Mark and Karla insist their Cabin Fever is a decidedly welcome type of fever, while they work on ways to meeting the growing demand with their biggest reinvestment in the property to date.
April 16th will mark their fifth opening day at the popular campground, and will be preceded by groundbreaking ceremonies for the addition of five new deluxe cabins on the property one day earlier.
As they meet the growing demand of consumers seeking an outdoor recreational experience, they are building on a long list of accomplishments in their prolific pursuit of excellence. When they bought their 47-year old campground in 2016, it included 10 rustic cabins, and two deluxe cabins. In 2019, they pioneered glamorous camping in Southwest Michigan with the addition of three luxury “Glamping Tents.” Now in 2021, they are adding to the portfolio of accommodations with an addition of five more deluxe cabins, which will now offer guests up to 20 accommodations to choose from.
Mark says, “In the wake of all the government restrictions that dominated our lives the past year in response to the pandemic, millions of Americans just wanted to get outside and actively sought to continue, renew or begin their camping adventures,” and adds, “Camping is the quintessential outdoor activity, and guests came because they found it to be safer, more affordable, and easier to social-distance.”
Deluxe cabins provide guests with air-conditioned/heated spaces with full kitchens and bathrooms, in addition to other high-end amenities such as cable TV, Weber gas grills, outdoor patio furniture and an enhanced fire experience. Specifically, the new deluxe cabins that will be added to the Lemoine’s park includes a four-person studio, three six-person cabins that feature two bedrooms with a half-bath in the Master bedroom, and a six-person unit that is handicap friendly.
Karla tells us, “In addition to serving guests who enjoy camping on our tent or recreational vehicle sites, we hear from people all the time who tell us they typically stay in hotels, but after seeing our available glamping tents or cabins, they say, ‘Oh yeah, I can do this!’”
The four-person deluxe cabin studio will be available for guests in late-June. The other four deluxe cabins will be added following the construction of necessary infrastructure improvements. A groundbreaking ceremony has been planned for April 15, 2021, at 10:00am in coordination with the Coloma/Watervliet Chamber of Commerce and the Southwest Michigan Regional Chamber.
Fifth Level Hospitality, Inc., is locally-owned and operated by Mark and Karla Lemoine, and is doing business as the Coloma/St. Joseph KOA Holiday. Located in Hagar Township, the southwest Michigan campground destination is the closest KOA campground to Lake Michigan and offers guests 130 sites for tenting, RVs, twelve cabins and three luxury “glamping” tents. Amenities include an in-ground heated pool, jumping pillow, Gaga ball, Carpet ball, mini-golf, fun bike rentals, wooded nature trail and more. You can find them online at http://www.stjosephkoa.com or “Like” them on FaceBook.
