A Schuylkill County landmark took one other large step ahead this weekend by opening a lakeside bar and out of doors leisure stage and pavilion.
Lakewood Park Campground, which is situated within the Barnesville part of Ryan Township, opened these facilities on Friday with a ribbon slicing ceremony held by the Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce.
Lakewood this summer season can be including new 17 extra campsites for tents, RVs and campers, bringing its whole to 135 websites, and including two extra cabins, bringing its whole to 17, mentioned Andrew Roth, who owns the campground along with his father, Buck Roth.
The chamber applauded the continued enhancements that Lakewood is making.
“We’re all excited to see the continued progress from the Roth household as they proceed to develop Lakewood Park again into an leisure and leisure hub for the neighborhood,” mentioned Tony Merchlinsky, member relations and advertising and marketing director for the chamber.
“It’s very nice what they’ve manufactured from it,” Merchlinsky mentioned of the bar, which he expects will draw individuals from throughout Schuylkill County and past.
“These are the forms of issues that the chamber likes to see our companies doing. We love new concepts, and this can be a very progressive use of their house,” he mentioned.
Lakewood Park covers 63 acres, and features a 10-acre lake for fishing, kayaking and paddle boating, together with a playground, and usually holds weekend actions.
The campground is on the location of the unique Lakewood Park, which opened within the early 1900’s as a nature retreat the place close by coal miners and their households may picnic and camp.
Over time it grew right into a vacation spot spot with a 150-yard cement pool, an amusement park, and a grand ballroom. It hosted large band dances, ethnic celebrations, festivals, summer season inventory performs, political banquets, and ice-skating, and featured celeb performers similar to Frank Sinatra, Dick Clark, Louis Armstrong, Man Lombardo, The Each Brothers, Lawrence Welk, Doris Day and Eva Gabor.
It closed in 1984 after serving as an leisure hub for nearly 70 years.
The Roths purchased Lakewood in 2017 with a plan to make it an attraction once more. They opened the campground first, and have stored including different options since then.
They accomplished the Catalpa Grove wedding ceremony corridor in 2019, constructing it creek facet, the place Kiddie Land amusement park was once. It hosts greater than 80 occasions a yr, together with the annual Lithuanian Pageant.
Lakewood Park Cafe and Bar opened inside final yr on the property, serving meals, draft beers, alcoholic slushies, and different drinks on Fridays and Saturdays.
The out of doors bar is open the identical days, however on Might 14 will increase to Thursdays as nicely.
Each the within and outdoors amenities are open to campers and to the general public.
The out of doors stage will maintain leisure just a few occasions a month starting in Might, and Lakewood will submit the leisure schedule on its web site and Fb web page. There are at the moment bands scheduled for Might 9, 14 and 28.
Among the many meals objects the cafe affords are flatbread pizzas, sandwiches, salads, and appetizers, together with Hershey’s ice-cream and a wide range of espresso, espresso, lattes, boba teas, and different drinks.
Whereas the campground’s main season is April by October, the cafe is open year-round.
Its hours and menus are listed on Lakewood’s web site.
