53
Acre flagship resort
252
Full-hookup RV sites
250+
Projects built by our development arm
$139M+
In businesses built and exited
Our resorts
An award-winning flagship, and two signed territories built to the same plan: Bryce Canyon country and the gateway to the Grand Canyon.
Hurricane, Utah · Zion · Sand Hollow
Utah's first Jellystone Park™. A 53-acre destination resort with eight pools, a lazy river, water slides, 252 full-hookup RV sites and 34 cabins, minutes from Sand Hollow and Zion National Park.
Hatch, Utah · Bryce Canyon country
Our second Jellystone Park™ camp-resort, on Utah's Heritage Highway 89 in Bryce Canyon country — designed from day one by the team that built Zion.
Williams, Arizona · Grand Canyon gateway
A Jellystone Park™ territory signed with Camp Jellystone for Williams, Arizona: the gateway to the Grand Canyon on historic Route 66 and I-40. Site selection is under way.
The integrated model
Most resort operators buy what someone else built. We do the whole thing in-house, so every decision — from where the pipes run to how fast a guest gets an answer — is made by people who will live with it.
We source land on the corridors families already drive, and take it through zoning, utilities and approvals ourselves.
Nielson Development
Our own general contractor builds the resort: infrastructure, water parks, cabins and every full-hookup site.
Nielson Development
We run the resort with an owner's mindset: our people, our standards, and booking on the industry's leading reservation platform.
Glampers Inn Resorts
Rylee.ai answers guest questions in seconds by chat and text, so no call or question waits for the front desk to open.
Rylee.ai
Recognition
Park of the Year finalist within the Jellystone Park™ franchise, a national finalist in the outdoor hospitality industry's Awards of Excellence two years running, Pinnacle Club, Top 50 Campgrounds in America and more.
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Award-winning & accelerating
Jellystone Park™ Zion has collected 14 awards and honors since it opened as a Jellystone Park™ in 2024, including two straight years as a national finalist in the outdoor hospitality industry's Awards of Excellence. Now the same team and the same playbook are headed to Hatch, Utah and Williams, Arizona. For brands, owners and investors who want a seat at the table, the time to partner is before the next one opens.
Press
25 articles across 11 outlets since 2021.
Where we are
The Grand Canyon and Zion are two of the three most-visited national parks in America, with Bryce Canyon and Sand Hollow State Park between them. Most of those visitors drive in from Las Vegas and Phoenix, on the highways where our resorts sit.
Sand Hollow State Park 10 min · St. George 25 min · Zion National Park 50 min
Red Canyon 15 min · Panguitch 20 min · Bryce Canyon National Park 35 min
Flagstaff 40 min · Grand Canyon Village 1 hr 20 min · Sedona 1 hr 30 min
Guest experience
Rylee.ai is our AI concierge. Trained on each resort, it answers questions about sites, pools, pets, check-in and the parks nearby — by chat on the web and by text — and hands anything it can't solve to our team.
The creation of Jellystone Park™ Zion. Raw desert to finished resort, from first cut to opening day. Film by Vision Impact Productions.
Development
Nielson Development is our development and construction arm. It takes every resort from raw ground to opening day — so the people who design the infrastructure answer to the people who run it.
Our family of companies
Glampers Inn Resorts is the latest in a line of companies Scott Nielson has founded, built and sold, with $139M+ in combined exits to private equity and public companies. Here are the companies working together today, and the ones that came before.
Resort operator
Develops and operates the portfolio. The company you're reading about.
Flagship resort
Utah's first Jellystone Park™, in Hurricane near Sand Hollow and Zion.
zionutahjellystonepark.com
Development arm
Land, entitlements and construction. 250+ projects across four states.
nielsondevelopment.com
RV sales & rentals
New and used RVs and rentals, on the Sand Hollow corridor next to the resort.
glampersrv.com
AI guest concierge
Answers guests by chat and text around the clock, trained on each resort.
ryleerv.ai
Software
RV Super Intelligence: AI-native software for the RV industry.
rvsi.ai
Founder · sold to Camping World, 2021
Grew into the region's largest RV dealership, about $50M a year, before Camping World acquired it.
Now Camping World St. George
Founder & inventor · sold
Invented an onboard RV generator system that broke a one-brand hold on the market.
npsrvpower.com
Co-founder · sold
Technical hunting apparel, built into a brand sold around the world.
skregear.com
Private investor
Desalination technology from St. George: a reverse osmosis centrifuge that recovers more fresh water from brine.
edentechinc.com
Owner & contributor
Tire blowout protection that keeps a failed tire from tearing up an RV's wheel well.
rv-de-fender.com
Mentor
Keeps the slider on an RV screen door closed. Mentored from idea to product.
rvbugstop.comWe're not holding back. We're doing it first-class all the way.
Scott NielsonFounder & CEO, on building Jellystone Park™ Zion, St. George NewsGrow with us
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