RV enthusiasts who spend the winter at RV resorts across the Sunbelt not only get to enjoy some of the best weather in the country, but develop their creative talents in specially equipped craft rooms, wood shops and lapidaries.
“These amenities bring the RV community together, while also providing a fun atmosphere for participants and guests alike,” said Randy “Boomer” Berman, a senior public relations specialist for Equity LifeStyle Properties, which owns and operates RV resorts under the Encore and Thousand Trails brand names.
Equity LifeStyle Properties is one of several companies whose RV resorts feature craft oriented amenities that are specifically designed to appeal to Snowbirds who spend most of the winter at the same park.
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Sunbelt Resorts with Woodshops, Lapidaries, and Craft Areas
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“While these hobby-focused amenities vary by resort and compliment the numerous other amenities provided by Encore RV Resorts, many of these amenities are supported by guest-formed clubs whose members help assist, teach and coordinate their individual hobbies,” Berman said.
While many independently owned and operated RV resorts have wood shops, lapidaries and other craft-based amenities, other RV resort networks that are most likely to offer these amenities include RV resorts that are owned and operated by Roberts Resorts, Sun Outdoors and Wilder RV Resorts.
Here’s a sampling of RV resorts across the Sunbelt that offer unique craft amenities and workshops:
Florida
- Encore Clerbrook RV & Golf Resort in Clermont, Florida: Activities at this park include wood carving, creative arts and crafts classes and projects.
- Encore Lake Magic RV Resort in Clermont, Florida: This park’s activities include arts and crafts.
- Encore Miami Everglades RV Resort in Miami, Florida: Activities at this park include quilting and hand crafting.
- Encore Sherwood Forest RV Resort in Kissimmee, Florida: Creatives arts and crafts classes and projects are among the activities provided at this park.
- Encore Sunshine Key RV Resort in Big Pine Key, Florida: This resort offers creative arts and crafts classes and projects.
- Encore Tropical Palms RV Resort in Kissimmee, Florida: This park’s amenities include a craft center.
- Pioneer Creek RV Resort in Bowling Green: This park has a woodworking shop as well as facilities for stained glass and metal working.
- Thousand Trails Orlando RV Campground in Clermont, Florida: This park’s activities include woodcarving, ceramics, creative arts and crafts classes and projects.
Texas
- Encore Sun-N-Fun in San Benito: This park offers arts and crafts as well as a sewing/art room and facilities for woodworking and lapidary.
- Encore Tropic Winds RV Resort in Harlingen: This park offers wood carving as well as a woodshop club.
- Texas Trails RV Resort in Pharr: Creative activities at this Wilder RV Resort park include ceramics, stained glass, wood working, and other hands-on activities.
- Victoria Palms RV Resort in Donna: This park has an extensive lineup of creative activities, including classes in working with stained glass, sewing, quilting and stitching, arts and crafts and ceramics. The park also has a wood and carving shop.
Arizona
- Encore Mesa Spirit RV Resort in Mesa: This resort offers facilities for silversmithing, lapidary and glass as well as workshops for arts and crafts, woodworking, quilting and painting.
- Gold Canyon RV Resort in Gold Canyon: Amenities at this Roberts Resorts park include facilities for ceramics, wood carving and a lapidary for cutting, polishing and engraving precious stones.
- Monte Vista RV Resort in Mesa: This park’s creative amenities include a craft shop and a wood shop.
- Palm Creek Resort & Residences in Casa Grande: Creative classes and amenities at this Sun Outdoors resort include pottery making, silversmithing, stained glass and lapidary classrooms, wood shop, a workshop and a sewing room.
- Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort in El Mirage: This Roberts Resorts park offers ceramics, wood carving, a lapidary, sewing and crafts using stained glass.
- Rincon Country RV Resorts in Tucson: These resorts offer woodworking and lapidary studies as well as workspaces for quilting, sewing and crafting.
- Sun Vista RV Resort in Yuma: Creative activities at this resort include ceramics, painting, needle crafting, quilting, scrapbooking, photography, silversmithing, and wood shop.
- Vista del Sol RV Resort in Bullhead City: This Roberts Resorts park has a woodshop and a craft room.
- Voyager RV Resort in Tucson, Arizona: Creative amenities and activities at this park include a glass fusion shop, ceramics, a lapidary shop, quilters clubs and classes, a silver shop, a stained glass shop, painting classes, wood shop and a wood carvers group.
- Westwind RV & Golf Resort in Yuma: This resort complements its lapidary with ceramics and a craft fair.
