1972 Vermont Private Campgrounds Vapcoo Camping Vintage Travel Brochure For Sale

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1972 Vermont Private Campgrounds Vapcoo Camping Vintage Travel Brochure:
$21.97

The official 1970 fold-out directory of the Vermont Association of Private Campground Owners and Operators (VAPCOO), printed in green ink on salmon-pink stock. The cover has the association\'s \"Camper Inspected\" logo: a hanging sign in the shape of Vermont with a pine tree, campfire, and picnic table. The cover also names Shirley Hale, Secretary-Treasurer, in Andover, Vermont, and states VAPCOO\'s membership in the Family Camping Federation and the National Campground Owners Association USA.

Inside is a large folding map of Vermont locating 53 numbered member campgrounds, from Campbell\'s Bay in Swanton to Moss Hollow in Halifax. A legend shows which sections of Interstates 89 and 91 were planned, under construction, or completed in 1970. Each campground gets a full listing with its address, phone number, directions, season, 1970 nightly rates (typically $2.00–$4.00), and number of sites, plus hookups, amenities, and the owners\' names. The listings include Lake Dunmore KOA, Lone Pine Campsites, Camp Skyland on Lake Champlain, Lake Memphremagog Park, Silver Lake, Horseshoe Acres, Kenolie Village, and many more. Several are described as \"under construction Fall 1969,\" so this directory captures Vermont\'s early-1970s camping boom as it happened.

A separate panel lists the association\'s 1970 associate members, the local businesses that helped fund the folder, grouped by nearby campground. They include Howard Johnson\'s in Barre, Twin Town Volkswagen, Gulf, Mobil, Texaco, and Shell stations, general stores and IGAs, the Kellogg Country Store (built 1804), the Weston Bowl Mill, the Vermont Sugar House, Harlow\'s Sugar House, the Old Londonderry Workshop, the Country Girl Diner, and Cyr\'s Mobile Home Park.

This is a great piece for collectors of Vermont and New England history, vintage camping and RV ephemera, and roadside Americana. Because it names dozens of campground owners and local business owners, it is also useful for genealogy and local history research. It was printed in the USA.

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