CHRISTIANA, Penn.

The Barn Yard, a veteran builder with its roots deep in the Lancaster County, Pa., Amish tradition, has added recreational park trailers to its Fork Creek Cabin line of products.

The company offers six basic recreational park trailers or park models, all rustic-looking, and sells factory-direct. But don’t be fooled by the word “rustic,” notes Richard Burton, sales manager.

The park trailers are available in a wide variety of floorplans and designs. Interiors can be left plain or the company can add kitchenettes, bathrooms, bunk beds, etc. per request. The trailers come in sizes from 12 by 24 up to 11 by 36. The units are fully insulated and feature either log, vinyl or lap siding. The metal roofs carry 30-year warranties.

Interior walls are either stained tongue-in-groove pine, painted LP SmartSide wood siding, drywall or can be left unfinished. Flooring options include vinyl, wood laminates, hardwood and carpeting. GE electric and gas ranges, microwaves and refrigerators and LG washers and dryers are included.

The basic insulation package calls for roofs and floors rated R-19 with R-13 on the walls.

MSRP on The Barn yard park models start at around $20,000 and go up to $60,000, depending upon options.

The Barn Yard has begun marketing its products in the mid-Atlantic region – Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland – and is making major inroads in private campgrounds in the region, said Burton who joined the company last year to spearhead its entry into the park model market.

The Barn Yard is located in Lancaster County, the epicenter for storage building manufacturing in the U.S. Owner Dan Allgyer founded the company in 1986 and started with storage buildings and later branched into cabins before beginning park model production last fall. The company remains one of the nation’s largest storage building makers.

The company’s park models are built to the A119.5 Standards Program, which is followed by all members of the Recreational Park Trailer Industry Association (RPTIA). The Barn Yard’s products got RPTIA approval last fall.

“We were building cabins prior to this but we didn’t need the RPTIA approval,” he noted.

“The thing that makes us a little unique is we’re not coming at this with a modular home approach,” Burton explained.

For example, the cabinets are all custom made, built in a cabinet shop owned by Allgyer’s two sons. “We take great pride in what we do with our interior work,” Burton said. Cabinets are typically made from cherry, pine or maple.

The company is a member of the Pennsylvania Recreational Vehicle and Campground Association (PRVCA), the Pennsylvania Campground Owners Association (PCOA) and the RPTIA.

The Barn Yard continues to build a variety of traditional products: storage sheds, garden buildings, garages, play houses, pool houses, dog kennels, run-in sheds for horses and mobile storage boxes.

For more information about The Barn yard, contact Richard Burton at (610) 593-8400. For more information about the recreational park trailer or “park model” industry, please contact William Garpow, executive director of the Recreational Park Trailer Industry Association, at (770) 251-2672.