Glamping Expands to Chewacla State Park

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ALABAMA

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James Hansel recently surprised his wife, Joy, with a glamping trip to Wind Creek State Park on Lake Martin to celebrate the couple’s 47th wedding anniversary.

Joy didn’t know anything about the trip until the night before the couple’s departure from their home in Theodore, just outside Mobile, but her first glamping experience left such a positive impression that she wants to go back again, she said.

“The glamping sites were impeccable,” she said. “It was just a de- light, really, to me. It had a lot of amenities that made glamping comfortable. We’d camped out, but this was the first time we’d ever glamped out, and so that was a neat experience for us.”

One of the best amenities, they said, was the ability to rent kayaks for the duration of the trip, which allowed them to explore the beauty of Lake Martin and the state park at their leisure.

“It just had everything we needed,” Joy said.

“We enjoyed it. It was beautiful there. We can’t say anything bad about it because it was so great.

It was an amazing experience for us.”

Wind Creek, in April, became the first of Alabama’s state parks to offer glamping, a form