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Reopening of Brassua Lake Camps

For us this journey started back in the fall of 2015. We were living out of state, but the opportunity to move back home was on the horizon. We came back home for a visit and to look at different houses in the Greenville/Rockwood area. I really wanted to be in Greenville, close to the school and stores, with four kiddos (at the time) this made the most sense. My only predicament was that 16 years ago I married a country boy. Not a city boy or even a town boy, he loves to live where he is surrounded by only trees. So after looking at a few houses in Greenville, to make me happy, we headed toward Rockwood. We only had two houses we looked at, both were on Brassua Lake. The first one we looked at just down the road, I loved. It was a beautiful house, move in ready, would fit our some what large family, I was sold. Then we came to 52 Lake Camps Road. We pulled up to the house, and only stringers remained from a deck out front. We went around back, up rickety stairs, no joke, we went in the house one at a time, afraid the deck and stairs would not hold all of us. As soon as we entered the house all you could smell was gas from a leak in the pipes, somewhere. Flies were everywhere, the house that had not been lived in for a couple years. At the time, I didn’t even go through the whole house, I said no way and headed back outside. Then we looked at the run down cabins, every single cabin needed something done. This was September, we pondered what we should do for three months.

Then on January 1st of 2016, we made an offer on Brassua Lake Camps. I think the only reason I agreed to it was because it had been so long since I had been there. Eric saw the potential in the camps, I saw the work, work and more work. That’s why you marry someone who looks at the glass half full, when you are glass half empty person, it makes a good balance. Our first summer we worked on things around the property and enjoyed our first summer living at the lake. Summer of 2017 we opened, having only two cabins rentable, we couldn’t believe how successful the cabins were. One thing we have got used to is people pulling down in and turning around. Many are people who stayed here years ago and come to look at the cabins and share stories, many want to know if we are open. Some just pull in, watch the sunset and then pull out. One thing I love about being here and buying Brassua Lake Camps is the history of it. I love hearing the stories people tell, I love seeing pictures of what it used to look like with all the campgrounds. I love the story that it is and now being a part of that story.