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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From time to time, we here at Outdoor Design Group like to hand over the reins of this blog to a guest writer. This allows us to peer over the fence into the realm of another business, and bring our readers new views on topics related to our field of work.
This week, T.J. Wood from Plan-It Geo (a company that Outdoor Design Group has collaborated with in the past on various projects) gives us a description of an application they developed for the Colorado State Forest Service. This online tool helps Colorado communities assess their public street and park trees locally to provide a statewide picture of tree diversity and health.
Introduction:
At Plan-It Geo, we specialize in “Trees and Technology.” A tree inventory combines both of these elements seamlessly by management of this important natural resource with use of mobile devices and technology in the field. The Colorado State Forest Service contracted Plan-It Geo to develop a web-based application that communities, campuses, and HOA’s can upload their tree inventories and view important state-wide tree data summaries. To access all of our web and mobile GIS software applications, click here.
A screen shot from CO-Tree View
Colorado Tree View:
Project Profile: Colorado Tree View
Project Title: Colorado Tree View – Statewide Inventory and Ash management Application
Client: Colorado State Forest Service
Timeframe: February 2015 – Present
Description: Tree inventories provide critical information for cities, neighborhood associations, and other entities to proactively manage their urban and community forestry resource. This project provided a tool to help diversify the planning and planting of tree species. It also provided a first-time statewide view of the structure of Colorado’s urban forests. The tool is a starting point for a long-term strategy and provides substantial new technical support to communities.
Outcomes: A statewide web-based application was created for Colorado. This application has the built-in ability to “crosswalk” a wide variety of inventory data into the application. The main fields collected are species, dbh (diameter breast height), condition, and location of each tree. The application has a hierarchy of log ins based on city and user approvals with different functionality at each level. A customized dashboard was created for the state to view important number and population statistics on each community or organizational inventory.
A screen shot from CO-Tree View
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If you’ve not purchased holiday lights in several years, you are in for some surprises next time you head out shopping for new holiday lighting. Recent advances have produced a wave of new and innovative LED lighting that is far more energy efficient than holiday lighting your father or grandfather installed in years past. Many of the new LED holiday light strings are 7 to 8 times more efficient than traditional incandescent light strings. This translates to additional benefits aside from lowered electricity bills: more strings can be safely strung together end-to-end (which may mean a simplified layout of your light display) and there is a lowered fire hazard as the strings do not get as hot as many of the incandescent holiday light bulbs.
One down side to these new types of holiday lights is their higher up-front cost. But if you calculate in the lower operating costs, LED lights are likely to cost you less money in the long run. And as more LED holiday lights are being manufactured, prices have been dropping.
One criticism of LED lights has been the tendency of light from LED bulbs to appear harsh and “cold”. Manufacturers have responded to this issue and are now producing LED holiday lighting that appears “warmer”, like the incandescent lights they are intended to replace.
So this year, consider adding some ‘green’ lights to your holiday decor by choosing energy efficient LED holiday lights.
Here’s a list of pros and cons for LED Holiday lighting:
PROS
Lower energy use / operating cost
Lower heat output (Less fire hazard)
Longer life
More strings can be connected safely (Fewer outlets or extension cords needed)
CONS
Higher purchase cost than incandescent.
Color & “temperature” of light output difference as compared to incandescent
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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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