Gas City Campground

Donna and Robert Coey pulled off the highway for a nice picnic at the Gas City Campground on Victoria Day.--NEWS PHOTO TIM KALINOWSKI

 

 

Campers at the Gas City Campground had a family friendly May Long Weekend.

Most of the campers were locals enjoying a nice staycation at the campground with a few others from further afield. Medicine Hat resident Larry Glauser has been coming to the Gas City Campground every year for the last 10 May Long Weekends.

“My wife Janice and I come out here every year. It’s probably the 10th year we’ve been here,” said Glauser. “So we’ve been through snow, good weather, rains we just love coming out here. It’s the first camping weekend of the summer. Normally this is the first place we come to make sure everything is working good on the RV.”

Kim Hill, also a Hatter, was out for a good time at the campground with her friends. She says this weekend’s great weather surpassed all her expectations.

“It was a fantastic weekend. The weather turned out fantastic. We were expecting the worst and got good weather. It rained for two hours, not even. We just sat under the awning and waited,” said Hill

The Palin family was up from Lethbridge for a fun family weekend getaway. Art Palin says despite all the travel and business of the weekend he, wife Roxanne and sons Ty and Logan had a great time in the Hat. They took their boys swimming at the Medicine Hat Lodge and went down to the Leisure Centre. Palin says he especially enjoyed staying at the campground doing nothing but sitting by the fire.

“I took a day to get settled and a day to pack up,” said Palin. “But there was one day in between when we got to sit around and not do a whole lot.”

Robert Coey and wife Donna stopped at the Gas City Campground for a nice Victoria Day picnic on the way to visit a relative’s house. Daytrippers down from Strathmore, Robert said they love having that extra time the long weekend brings to get down to see family.

“It’s that extra day that is so nice. And it just shortens up your work week,” said Coey.