The dog days of summer are finally here, and for many people, this means that it’s time to pack their bags and head out to enjoy the wilderness. This is the perfect time of year to enjoy the great outdoors, while all of the wildlife is in full swing and the weather is warm and beautiful. For parks, campgrounds, and other outdoor locations, this means that the summer is the busiest time of their year.
While you’re busy juggling the management of your campground this summer, signs might be the last thing on your mind. However, if you want to reduce your stress this year and make it easier for your visitors to have fun and safe experiences, ensuring that your signage is clear, legible, and up-to-date is absolutely essential. Here are some of the most important signs for you to have on your campground this summer to help that happen!
Entrance Signage
Poorly marked entrances, exits, and locations cause trouble even in the most urbanized areas. When you start getting further into the wilderness, this becomes even more of a potential problem! You’ll never bring in the amount of visitors you want over the course of the season if no one can even find your location, so having very clear and easy-to-see entrance signage is vital. This is even more important if you want to direct visitors to specific areas, like designated parking lots, or if your entrance isn’t particularly obvious to newcomers, like if the road isn’t paved or the entrance is hidden by trees.
Clearly Posted Rules
Every campground and park has at least a few rules that visitors need to follow for safety purposes and to ensure that everyone has a good experience, but if those rules aren’t very easy to find, they’re not very likely to be followed. That’s why it is so vital to have the rules of your site posted in a high-traffic area where your visitors will see them, and to post them in multiple spots where you can.
People always need to be reminded to dispose of their trash properly, be careful about staying on paths, and to respect the area’s wildlife, be it not feeding bread to ducks or keeping food away from bears. Clearly posted rules can help to ensure that they do this!
Site Markers
The last thing you want to deal with during the busy summer season is multiple lost campers wandering around unable to find the particular site they were looking for. At best, it’s a hassle for you, your employees, and your visitors to have to keep pointing them in the right direction, and at worst, it’s a hazard that could lead to your visitors being lost for extended periods of time or potentially being harmed by wandering into places they shouldn’t be.
Having very obvious site markers and directional signs throughout a campground or park is crucial for both ease of navigation and for safety. Without them, you’ll be dealing with problems all summer, so now is the time to make sure your site markers are up to par!
Restroom Signage
Jumping off of the previous point, you want people who visit your campground to be able to find their way around, and most importantly, you want them to be able to find their way to the restrooms if you have them. Restrooms that are easy to locate can make or break the experience that your visitors have, so if you want them to keep coming back, using professional and clear signage to make the bathrooms easy to find is crucial!
To get the most out of your campground signage, you’ll need the help of a professional signage company like Bartush Signs to give you the best results. If you’re in the Orwigsburg, PA area, we’re ready to help bring your signs up to the highest standards! Contact us today to learn more.
