Flower Mound Highland Village Argyle | January 2023

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Pilot Knoll Park cabin project expected to break ground in 2023

MOST POPULAR Highland Village ocials looked at the most popular forms of camping and found cabins were favored with 42% with 2,942 surveys completed by the Kampgrounds of America for the North American Camping Report 2020.

14% Tree Houses

42% Cabins

10% Yurts

PILOT KNOLL PARK

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Glamping is considered glamorous camping, which includes extra ame- nities usually not associated with tra- ditional camping. “As a result of COVID[-19], there were a lot of people who wanted to get out of the house and do some traveling but maybe didn’t want to get involved with ying on an air- plane or the requirements for mass travel,” Mayor Daniel Jaworski said. “They would do smaller-scale vaca- tions where they get in the car, or an RV, and go travel to a park and take in some nature.” Jaworski said Highland Village’s location on Lewisville Lake makes it well-equipped as a camping desti- nation, and he expects it could be a major moneymaker for the city. “The cabins get us into the busi- ness of bringing guests in from out of town,” Jaworski said. “They’re going to stock up on groceries; they’re going

9% Tiny Houses

Pilot Knoll Park will be getting a major facelift this year, as Highland Village ocials expect upgrades to start construction in the summer. With the Pilot Knoll project, the city is looking to turn the park into a camping destination with the installa- tion of 16 new cabins—three of which will be tree houses—along with other upgrades, such as a new boat dock and a new gate house. “It’s been a couple years worth of work, and we’re almost at the end of the tunnel,” Parks and Recreation Director Phil Lozano said. “Things are going to start progressing forward, especially with construction and design, and things like that. So we’re pretty excited.” The idea to add cabins at Pilot Knoll came about with the rise of “glamp- ing” during the height of the COVID- 19 pandemic, according to Lozano.

LEWISVILLE LAKE

ORCHID HILL LN.

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to want to entertain themselves; they’re going to go out to dinner, and they’re gonna do all those things in Highland Village.” Lozano added that updating the city’s parks and recreation master plan was “needed to tee [Highland Village] up for grants” that would help fund the project he estimates will cost around $3 million. The city applied for a $750,000 grant from the Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation in July 2022 and should hear back in January. Lozano also expects the city to nalize an agreement with a con- tractor to handle the design process in January. The design process could

7% Safari Tents

9% RV

9% Other

take four-six months to complete, at which point construction could begin. Jaworski is condent the project will be a success. “This idea has just taken o, and we are really condent that this is going to be a home run for our city and our residents,” he said.

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