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Maine Firm Manages Campgrounds in Seven States and Rest Areas in Two More

The company also runs a 36-site campground on the Saco River in Fryeburg under a town agreement.

Maine Business Wire Features Desk

By Maine Business Wire Features Desk

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BA Services, Inc.

Courtesy of BA Services, Inc.

BA Services, Inc. manages campgrounds, forest recreation areas, state park concessions and highway rest stops under contracts that stretch from Maine to Utah, according to its website. In Maine, the company runs Canal Bridge Campground in Fryeburg, a 36-site property on the Saco River that it operates under an agreement with the Town of Fryeburg.

Government Work Beyond Maine

The company's website lists two state transportation department contracts outside Maine. For the Iowa Department of Transportation, it staffs and maintains two rest areas along the I-29 corridor near Sergeant Bluff, including janitorial work, grounds care and daily incident logging. For the Utah Department of Transportation, the site says the company handles facility management, janitorial service and grounds and infrastructure work across 28 rest areas, view areas and welcome centers spanning three regions of the state.

The website also lists concession agreements with the U.S. Forest Service and several state park systems. Those include Bankhead National Forest in Alabama, Hoosier National Forest in Indiana, and Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, where the company says it handles recreation operations, facility maintenance and visitor services. On the state side, the site lists Meramec State Park and Washington State Park in Missouri and Burlingame State Park in Rhode Island, along with Yankee Springs Recreation Area and two outdoor retreat centers in Michigan.

Maintenance Is the Common Thread

Across every location, the company's website describes a similar core service list: campground and park maintenance, landscaping and groundskeeping, preventive maintenance and repairs, and rest-area cleaning and upkeep. For its park concessions, the site adds guest-facing work such as campground check-in, camp store operations and reservations.

The website lists a Maine phone number for the company and describes the Fryeburg property specifically as a riverside campground within view of the White Mountains, with bathhouse cleaning, grounds maintenance, beach upkeep and nightly security patrols handled under its municipal contract.

At Burlingame State Park in Rhode Island, the company's website describes the property as the state's largest campground, with 755 campsites and 20 rustic cabins along the shore of Watchaug Pond.

More about the company at baserves.com.

Disclosure: BA Services, Inc. is a client of this publication’s owner.

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