campground in maine opening in augusta

Keep an eye on your picnic basket.

This summer the Jellystone Park Camp-Resort is taking over Beaver Brook Campground in North Monmouth. According to MaineBiz, it will be called the Augusta Jellystone Park. There are 75 Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts in the country and this is actually Maine’s second. Yogi Bear has been stealing picnic baskets up in Skowhegan at Yonder Hill.

Beaver Brook was the perfect place for a Jellystone takeover. They already have a waterpark with tube slides, a heated pool, miniature golf, and disc golf. The new owners plan on making some renovations and improvements including property-wide Wi-Fi.

These franchised Yogi Bear Jellystone camps sound fun. Especially if you are a kid. I’m not sure if kids these days even know who Yogi Bear is, but he was created by Hanna-Barbera (Flinstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo). He was a character in a cartoon called Huckleberry Hound. He was a breakout star from that cartoon. Not sure if there is bad blood between them, but no one cares about Huckleberry Hound and everyone loves Yogi Bear. Who came first? Yogi Bear, not Yogi Bera and yes, he was named after the famed Yankee.

There’s tons to do with Yogi and your family. Like fishing. Why Yogi is using a pole and not his God-given talent as a bear is beyond me, but fishing is something you can do at Jellystone in Augusta. Are you up for some camping with a big bear? They are taking reservations now!