The Girl Scouts' campgrounds in Crawford County are getting a makeover with a little help from AmeriCorps.
13WMAZ's Nicole Butler went out to see how progress was coming along and what this means for the scouts who are returning.
"Without question the hardest thing we've been doing has been the brush clearing and land clearing," AmeriCorps Team Leader Stephen Komar said.
For the past two weeks, a group of 10 students have come to lend a helping hand to get the campground back on track.
"Basically this entire area where we are standing was overgrown, all of this around here was overgrown for basically like a mile down," Komar said.
From power washing to painting, and even rebuilding a dock, AmeriCorps is doing it all.
Komar says one of their biggest accomplishments is clearing branches that were overhanging the creek, so the Girl Scouts can canoe more safely and not worry about snakes falling into their canoes.
Property Director Ronald Holliday says it's normally up to him and his assistant to take care of the 167 acres, but with the extra set of hands, the changes are astounding.
"Like some of the trails, if you had to come in, I mean, it would've looked like a jungle to where now they have it completely open, where the girls can walk through the trails and be safe walking through them," Holliday said.
Holliday says safety is their number one priority.
"As far as the dock where they are rebuilding the dock, I mean it had gotten to the point where it was a safety issue. So I mean this group coming in just makes things a whole lot better for when the kids come out," he said.
Holliday says people may think being in the Girl Scouts is a thing of the past, but he hopes these changes will attract new campers to the grounds.
The AmeriCorps team will head to the Ocmulgee National Monument tomorrow to help get ready for the 2018 Ocmulgee Indian Celebration which happens September 15 and 16.