How to Improve The Experience At Your Park or Campground with Concrete Cornhole or a Pedal Boat.

Spring is here, and Summer is coming–are you ready to impress guests at your facilities?

You hear it every year—get ready to impress the new incoming campers and visitors to your recreational facility. And every year it means reevaluating how you’re going to impress new guests. Kay Park has you covered. This time take our word for it – we hear what people want and we carry it!

Yes, Spring has Sprung and it is definitely time to evaluate your campgrounds and facility layout to make sure you have enough stuff to keep people busy and that you’re up to speed with all the latest trends and games. Whether you are a park or a campground, a municipal organization, or a Federal one, we can offer you the most popular outdoor products to improve guest experience on the market.

Kay Park is a full-service provider of recreational and public-facing park furniture and accessories that include practical additions like heavy-duty trash receptacles that even a bear couldn’t move, or fun stuff like Cornhole game equipment so you can ensure your visitors leave feeling relaxed.

This article is about the fun stuff and the infrastructure that you might not have thought of yet, with the seasonal reminder that Summer is just around the corner. After all, you’ve only got about 4–5 weeks before big crowds are showing up—so it is time to begin getting the prep work done.

Below you’ll find some insights into the types of products that can help your organization set the stage for your guests to make lifelong memories. This is true whether it’s about family fun or whether it’s about youth camps, through-hikers, or fishermen.

Every facility has some pieces of equipment that just make sense. Let’s explore further so you can see if it makes sense to consider some upgrades for your facility this season.

Every year return guests expect consistency, and also something new and exciting

Guests usually come as recommended by friends or word of mouth, or online ratings to a recreational facility. But the choice to return is all about the experience they have had at your place of business. Largely, return guests are coming back because there is consistency, comfort, and a memorable experience in a previous, or all previous visits.

But convincing guests to return to the same place over the long term is a more complicated process. It means that as new adventures and changes in lifestyle occur in those individuals’ lives, you need to also be changing and providing on-trend options, and keeping consistent service and infrastructure so that your facility is relatable and interesting year after year.

In a world where there are a lot of different outlets for recreation, we think it’s important to offer a diverse, interesting portfolio of options for visitors.

Does your campground have water access or a lake?

If you’ve got water access, there are some obvious wins—and some of the time it’s just about expanding presence, or opening up new volume capabilities with strategic long-term high ROI options.

An example might be:

You’re a medium-sized lake with canoes and small boats. You offer some parts of the water for swimmers and basic recreation, and some for fishing and more fast-paced water sports. Having a segmented lake surface area can allow you to implement high-ROI equipment that can move between areas. One concept might be to add a few more canoes so that you can retire older canoes to improve safety and comfort or increase total capacity.

Another might be to offer pedal boats or other fun water-based equipment. When guests are onshore and aren’t in the mood to get splashed, you might consider other outdoor sports or fun equipment like a giant Disc 4 Connect game or Ladder Toss game made of concrete.

How can you enhance the overall grounds of your space with long-term infrastructure investments?

Some of the classic indoor games have come to market, made to an improved specification to allow for outdoor use in more geographic locations with different weather considerations. Some of your guests will have an affinity for things they remember playing in their youth, like Foosball.

A concrete Foosball table is a long-lasting, permanent fixture that can keep campers or visitors occupied for hours, and still enjoy your curated outdoor space. The ability to combine some of the comforts of home while in a different outdoor space, improves guest experience and keeps them coming back.

Premium, permanent cornhole equipment means you get classic outdoor game attractions, but don’t have to worry about upkeep, breakage, weather, or theft. Premium concrete outdoor cornhole boards are an impressive option for those organizations that want to show guests that they take their recreational activities seriously.

Kay Park can help you wow your visitors and help them create memories for a lifetime

While these are novel and interesting recreation-specific products highlighted above, it’s important not to forget about the underlying equipment infrastructure that comes along with meeting baseline expectations. We sell commercial quality outdoor equipment that is usable in a variety of outdoor recreational spaces, including campgrounds, music venues, and hospitality and amusement-type parks.

There is a ton of carryover between the products and where they can be placed.

For instance, if you’ve decided that music or storytelling is important, you could scale from a few firepits to bleachers for larger crowds on warmer nights, where more than just a few people can enjoy the live music. Daytime shows are easy with comfortable seating (we have towable bleachers and stage equipment too).

Bike rentals or bike equipment for guest use can be enhanced with proper bike racks at key points in a given property. A bike rack, a trash receptacle, and a park bench can help to justify a small bike ride, to enjoy a beautiful sunset view, or a challenging trail ride if positioned in rest areas away from pedestrians and where nature can be enjoyed.

If you are in a nature-heavy space, you might consider heavy-duty commercial-grade planters to show off some of the native flora in the area.

These are core pieces of infrastructure and we encourage program development teams and recreational space management to consider year over year which pieces need to be replaced, upgraded, or enhanced for a better customer experience. This can also help maximize safety and comfort in public or private spaces that cater to recreational visitors.

Ultimately, adding fun items like watersports equipment and concrete cornhole boards provide long-lasting, interesting options for those that need a reason to get out and enjoy the fresh air. Investing in premium equipment that provides great memories for guests is an important variable in keeping guests coming back year after year. And this helps in convincing them to bring the next generation of people to enjoy your space.

We’d love to be part of that story for your outdoor recreational facility or organization that provides public or private recreational space. We invite you to reach out to us and shop for things like canoes, pedal boats, and cornhole equipment on our website.