The Park

Building the Park

Gryptid was already an RV park when we bought it. It was worn out, and the sites sat almost on top of each other. These are the photographs from the eighteen months of fixing that.

April 2025: What We Bought

This was already an RV park when we took it over. What it was not was a good one. The sites sat close enough together that you could hear your neighbor set his coffee down and the ground had gone back to pasture in places.

The first job was not building anything. It was mowing and clearing until we could see what we had actually bought.

The property in April 2025, grass grown up tall with trees along the far edge — April 2025. Grown up and gone back to pasture.

A walk behind brush mower part way through cutting the tall grass — The brush mower earned its keep that spring.

Old concrete slabs sitting in the grass from the previous layout, gravel drive alongside — Old slabs left from the way it used to be laid out.

The same ground mowed down, open toward the treeline — Cut back, and we could finally see the ground.

Spring 2025: Water and Power

The park came with power and water. It did not come with the power and water we wanted. A backflow preventer went on the water side. A new meter base and panel for the electric.

None of this is what anybody photographs for a brochure. It is also the part that decides whether a park works or frustrates people for years. Anything that was going to end up buried or built over got done before the pads were touched. Fiber internet was available at the road but we had other things to work on first.

A Spectrum fiber enclosure mounted on a post at the road — Fiber at the road.

A brass backflow preventer assembly on the incoming water line — Backflow preventer on the water side.

An open electrical panel mounted on a post in the field — Panel set before anything was buried.

An electric meter base mounted on a utility pole at the edge of the field — The master meter. Every site gets its own downstream.

June 2025: What Was Already Here

The property came with history. A hand dug well with a concrete cap, still holding water. An outhouse back at the treeline that has been standing longer than anybody nearby remembers. Cut foundation stones stacked along the old fence.

We left all of it alone. The well is capped and stays capped. The outhouse is not an amenity and it is not going anywhere. Guests find them on a walk and come back with questions, which is half the fun of a place that used to be something else.

A concrete cap over an old hand dug well set into the grass — The old well, capped and left as found.

Looking down inside the old well shaft, water visible at the bottom — Still holding water.

A weathered red and grey wooden outhouse standing at the treeline — Older than anybody nearby remembers.

Summer 2025: Rebuilding the Pads

This is the part that mattered most. The old sites were too close together, so the pads got pulled apart and cut back in with real room between them. Posts set for the utility pedestals, then the grading. Rhea County clay is the reddest dirt you will ever stand on, and after a rain it is the stickiest.

Every pad came out level at twenty feet by thirty five, with about twenty feet of open ground between you and the next site. Then the gravel started showing up, a pile at a time, and sat there waiting to be spread.

A utility pedestal post being set into freshly dug red clay — Pedestal posts going in.

A level pad graded out of red clay with gravel drive alongside — Cut level. Red clay everywhere.

A skid steer moving a pile of dirt during site grading — Moving dirt in July.

Piles of grey gravel dropped across the graded pads waiting to be spread — September. Gravel delivered, not yet spread.

October 2025: Gravel, Fire Pits and Tables

By late October the pads were spread level and the sites finally had something on them.

The fire pits are cut steel, and each one carries its own design. Sasquatch, Wendigo, Mothman and Thunderbird, one per site. They were not a marketing idea that came later. They are the thing that made the place feel like it had a name. The tables are cedar, hexagonal, one to a site.

Finished level gravel pads with the park buildings and treeline behind — Spread and level.

A black steel fire pit cut with a Sasquatch design, loaded with firewood — Sasquatch. One design per site.

A new hexagonal picnic table standing on the gravel pad — One Table to a site.

A fire pit and picnic table set up together on a finished gravel site — What a finished site looked like in October.

Spring 2026: Every Site Got Its Cryptid

Each site has its own utility pedestal, and each pedestal got its own panel. Sasquatch on one, Wendigo on two, Mothman on three, Thunderbird on four. The same four names as the fire pits.

The mailboxes are a separate thing, down at the road. Four of them, locking, numbered to match the sites. On a stay of a few months you need somewhere for mail and packages to land, and general delivery gets old fast.

Site 1 pedestal panel, a gold Sasquatch figure on black above the name Sasquatch — Site 1. Sasquatch.

Site 2 pedestal panel, a gold antlered Wendigo figure on black — Site 2. Wendigo.

Site 3 pedestal panel, a gold winged Mothman figure on black — Site 3. Mothman.

Site 4 pedestal panel, a gold Thunderbird with red eyes on black above the name Thunderbird — Site 4. Thunderbird.

Four mailboxes numbered one to four on a timber frame at the road — Four boxes at the road, numbered to the sites.

August 2026: Internet Goes In

Business fiber into commercial grade equipment, and one separate network for every site. Not a single park wide password taped up somewhere.

The equipment lives in a cabinet near the middle of the park with climate control inside it, because Tennessee summers are hard on electronics and a network that drops in August is worse than no network at all.

A technician terminating fiber at the park utility cabinet on install day — Install day, August 2026.

The wooden utility cabinet housing the park network equipment — The cabinet it all lives in.

Inside the utility cabinet showing the network equipment and wiring — Inside. Climate controlled on purpose.

Where It Stands Now

Four sites, spread out the way they should have been all along. Full hookups with fifty, thirty and twenty amp electric, water and sewer. Electric metered at every site so you pay for what you actually use. Private internet on its own network. A steel fire pit and table on every pad, a marked pedestal at the site, and a mailbox at the road.

There is still no bathhouse and no laundry here. Every site has full hookups, so you are using your own. Both are next on the build list and we are working toward them, and we are not going to promise a date we cannot keep.

The photographs will keep going.

Two fifth wheels set up on their sites in morning light with trees behind — September 2026. Morning at the park.

An open level gravel site ready for the next guest — An open site, ready to go.

The gravel drive running in under mature trees with sun coming through — The drive in, under the big trees.

The Gryptid RV Park entrance sign at the road, reading quiet, spacious, long term RV sites — The sign at the road.

Come See It in Person

Photographs only go so far. If you are looking at a few months here, call and we will tell you straight what is open and what your site actually gets through the day. If we are full we can put you on the waitlist.

Phone: 423-602-3085
Email: kurt@gryptidrvpark.com
Address: 1702 Pleasant Rd, Evensville, TN 37332

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