At Outdoor Design Group, we’re thrilled to spotlight our latest project, the Roundabout RV & Water Resort, nestled in the picturesque rolling hills of Oxford, Mississippi. This unique resort promises a blend of natural beauty, modern amenities, and thoughtful design, catering to a wide array of visitors, from Ole Miss fans to vacationing families and local residents.
Embracing Nature, Overcoming Challenges
Designing the Roundabout RV Resort presented a distinctive set of challenges. Our primary goal was to provide safe amenities, level RV pads and ADA-accessible routes all while preserving the site’s natural beauty. The rolling hills, mature trees, creeks, and ponds of North Mississippi’s landscape required innovative solutions to maintain the scenic charm while ensuring functionality and accessibility. Our team at Outdoor Design Group worked meticulously to balance these elements, creating a harmonious environment that highlights the area’s natural splendor.
Aerial view of site.
A Haven for All
The Roundabout RV Resort is more than just a place to park your RV; it’s a destination tailored to a diverse audience. Whether you’re a visitor, a student or faculty member of Ole Miss, a family on vacation, or a local resident looking for a staycation, the resort offers something for everyone. For those without an RV, the on-site luxury cottages provide a cozy and comfortable alternative, allowing everyone to enjoy the resort’s amenities and natural beauty.
Highlights of the Resort
The Roundabout RV Resort boasts an impressive array of amenities designed to enhance your stay:
Recreational Activities: Enjoy fishing ponds, playgrounds, a fitness center, business center, shuffleboard, pickleball and basketball courts, a dog park, picnic areas, walking trails, a food truck plaza, and a yoga/zen pad overlooking the pond.
Water Park Extravaganza: Dive into fun with a splash pad, lazy river, hot tubs, family pool, and a 21+ pool complete with a swim-up bar and sun deck.
Community Spaces: Gather with friends and family at the sandy beach, community pavilions, storm shelters, bonfire areas, and more.
Convenience and Comfort: Golf cart rentals ensure easy mobility around the resort, while the various pavilions and shelters provide perfect spots for gatherings and events.
Rendered graphic of final plan.
The Design Journey
The design process for the Roundabout RV Resort began with a comprehensive site visit to fully understand the property’s unique characteristics and potential. Our team conducted several versions of concept sketches, exploring various layouts until we identified the most ideal plan. This iterative process involved close collaboration with engineers and water attraction specialists, allowing us to refine the design further. Through this collaborative effort, we developed a final site plan that seamlessly integrates the resort’s amenities with the natural landscape, ensuring an exceptional experience for all visitors.
Concept sketch (left) and Schematic design (right).
A Collaborative Effort
The success of the Roundabout RV Resort is a testament to the collaborative efforts of several key players. We partnered with the Co-Founders Drs. Alison & Andrew Ross and Chris & Jay Hughes, Mersmann Consulting Group, Williams Engineering Consultants, and Synery Aqua Tech to bring this vision to life. Each team brought their expertise and dedication, contributing to the project’s overall excellence.
Community Excitement and Economic Impact
The local community has shown overwhelming support and excitement for the Roundabout RV Resort. Senator Nicole Boyd highlighted the project’s significance, stating, “This is a super exciting project. It is innovative. There is a huge market need for people that are travelling across the state… This will be a great recreational spot. It has great interstate access and will be able to have people from all over the south use Oxford as a landing spot. It also solves a real need in our community when people come in to the university for ball games and weekends at the university. They’ll have a first-class RV spot to be able to go and have the wonderful recreation amenities right here close to town. I think we’ve all been working at the state level to make sure that people understand that this is a true economic development project for the region. The tourism this will bring in will be absolutely incredible. It’s like nothing else that we have really in this whole region.” (watch the full interview here)
Groundbreaking ceremony.
Project Statistics
Resort Size: 85 acres
Project Cost: $22 million
Estimated Completion: Spring 2025
The Roundabout RV Resort represents a new chapter for Oxford, Mississippi, offering a premier recreational destination that promises to bring joy, relaxation, and economic growth to the region. We at Outdoor Design Group are proud to have played a part in this transformative project and look forward to welcoming visitors to experience all it has to offer.
Follow along with the construction of this project by visiting www.roundaboutoxford.com
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As the population boom along Colorado’s front-range continues, many housing developments have been popping up throughout the area in an attempt to satisfy the need to house the burgeoning growth. While many of these new developments tout their environmental and community principles to attract buyers, one PUD (planned unit development) project we have had the opportunity to work on takes those ideas seriously and is truly committed to building a green and inclusive community.
This project, called Main Street Erie, is still in the approval process. When it is ultimately built, Main Street Erie will provide new housing options for the growing town of Erie (located in Weld County), while simultaneously following many of the environmental and community ideals that the citizens of Colorado hold dear to their hearts.
The design of Main Street Erie is informed by New Urbanist
concepts and inspired by the idealized small town of America’s yesteryear.
White picket fences blend with detached walks, traditional architecture with
inviting porches, and cozy alley homes to bring back the charm of an idealized
residential development your grandparents may have grown up in as children.
To be efficient with land area, homes are placed closer together with smaller yards. Because most of the lots do not provide a large amount of outdoor space, and also because many of the lots have extra accessory dwelling units (ADU’s), it was determined that a community garden space would be a good addition to the project. A large portion of the property was set aside for a garden area with nearly 30 garden plots. In the community garden spaces, residents can work together getting their hands dirty nurturing their green thumbs, while interacting with their neighbors.
The inclusion of ADUs in this development will help address
the need for multiple housing types. ADU’s can help provide variable housing
sizes, which in turn may lead to a more diverse cross-section of community
members.
Near the community garden plots will sit a clubhouse with outdoor gathering spaces, including a whimsically oversized chess board to entertain young and old alike.
Just north-east of the clubhouse a large communal lawn space is planned that will make a perfect community gathering spot for residents and their families to relax and have fun with their neighbors.
This project is an efficient use of the land due to the manner in which housing types are sited together. Homes are situated and designed for maximum solar gain. This will help maximize the efficiency of solar panels. But at the same time, care has been taken to incorporate vines and other plantings along the south sides of buildings to shade the structures from southern exposure, to help minimize heat gain as much as possible.
Main Street Erie has been a great project to be involved
with. With no foreseeable slow-down in development along the Front Range of
Colorado, it is good to see neighborhoods and communities like Main Street Erie
being planned with sustainable and community building aspects being included
from beginning.
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While visiting a project site last week I noticed a mistake in landscape design that I had to share:
In our landscape plans we always prefer to place fencing out of lawn areas and within landscape beds, or at least in a strip of rock. In the photos above, these nice 6″x6″ posts are being slowly whittled away by trimmers, commonly known as “weed wackers”.
This is a condo project that was only built about 10 years ago. I don’t blame the maintenance crews, I blame a poor landscape design.
If anything, the maintenance crews are probably cursing the landscape architect- because they have to trim around about 80 of these posts every week.
Since lawn was designed around the fence (rather than placing the fence in a strip of rock), it also gets over-sprayed by the lawn irrigation, which not only wastes water, but will quickly deteriorate a wood fence. That’s probably why it looks like it recently had to be re-stained.
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The team of landscape architects at Outdoor Design Group, Inc. are thrilled to be partnering with Bud Surles Signature Resorts of Victor, Idaho to create a master plan for an exclusive new resort project in Tangshan Bay, China. The 285 acre park and resort on the Pacific coast will be one of the first of it’s kind to be completed in China, and will feature commercial space, lakes, trails, water features, marinas, and numerous active recreational amenities.
Outdoor Design Group, Inc. was founded in 2004 by Denver landscape architect Matt Corrion. The firm’s office is located in Olde Town Arvada, Colorado. Additional details about the Tangshan Bay Resort project will be shared as they become available. For more information please contact Outdoor Design Group at 303-993-4811.
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On March 15, 2012, facilities across the United States must comply with the revised ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) design standards adopted in the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design.
The 2010 Standards set minimum requirements for newly designed and constructed or altered State or local government facilities, public accommodations, and commercial facilities to be readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.
I have reviewed the new standards, and they are pretty extensive. Property owners and designers should be aware of some of the changes that will be required when constructing or altering a facility.
The provision requiring accessible means of entry/exit for swimming pools has gained a lot of attention. On March 15th, the US Attorney General signed an extension of 60 days for this particular provision, while also opening up a public comment period.
The swimming pool provision, along with other key new provisions, as taken from the ADA website, include:
If boat slips are provided at a boating facility, the minimum number that must be accessible depends upon the size of the facility. Accessible boat slips must be dispersed throughout the various types of boat slips.
Where boarding piers are provided at boat launch ramps, at least 5% (but no fewer than one) must be accessible. Gangways that are part of a required accessible route are to be accessible, subject to certain enumerated exceptions.
4. Fishing Piers and Platforms (Sections 237, 1005)
Newly designed, newly constructed, or altered fishing piers must provide accessible routes, subject to the same exceptions permitted for gangways. At least 25% of guardrails or handrails must be no higher than 34 inches and must be dispersed. Clear floor or ground space must be provided at each accessible railing, and turning space must be provided on the pier.
5. Golf Facilities (Sections 238, 1006)
Newly constructed and altered golf facilities must have either an accessible route or golf car passages with a minimum width of 48 inches connecting accessible elements and spaces within the boundary of the golf course. An accessible route must be provided to the golf car rental area, bag drop-off areas, and other elements that are outside the boundary of the golf course. One or two teeing grounds (depending on the total number provided) per hole must be accessible.
If weather shelters are provided, a golf car must be able to enter and exit the shelters. Certain percentages of practice teeing grounds, practice teeing stations at driving ranges, and putting greens must be accessible.
6. Miniature Golf (Sections 239, 1007)
At least fifty percent of all holes on a miniature golf course must be accessible. These accessible holes must be consecutive, and they must be on an accessible route. The last accessible hole must be on an accessible route that connects to the course entrance or exit without going back through other holes.
7. Play Areas (Sections 240, 1008)
Play areas designed, constructed, and altered for children ages two and over in a variety of settings, including parks, schools, childcare facilities, and shopping centers, are covered.
Accessible ground and elevated play components, accessible routes, ramps and transfer systems (typically a platform or transfer steps), and accessible ground surfaces must be provided.
8. Swimming Pools, Wading Pools, and Spas (Sections 242, 1009)
Accessible means of entry/exit are required for swimming pools. Such accessible means of entry include a pool lift or sloped entry, and either a transfer wall, transfer system, or pool stairs. Wading pools must provide a sloped entry, and spas must provide a pool lift, transfer wall, or transfer system. Wave action pools, leisure rivers, and sand bottom pools where user access is limited to one area shall not be required to provide more than one accessible means of entry, either a pool lift, sloped entry, or a transfer system.
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