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I noticed most of the trailer parks around here have curiously pretentious names. They frequently end in "_____ Acres" or "_______ Estates". 'Estates' in particular is very popular suffix in my neck of the woods. I guess they'd like to create the impression that these are places where landed aristocracy resides. No irony there.

What sorts of names do trailer park communities have where you are?
What sorts of a name should a trailer park have in your opinion?
 
We have ______ Estates, ________ Manor, and _______ Villages.

I don't really know if there is something they should be named, but what I always find funny are that the positive names continue to the streets - Pristine Lane, Contemporary Drive, etc.
 
Don't know what the park is called, but I chuckle every time I pass this street in Gilead, ME:

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"Cove" is popular in my part of the world. Sounds exotic, I guess.

I live near a trailer park called simply "Camelot".
 
ursus said:
"Cove" is popular in my part of the world. Sounds exotic, I guess.

I live near a trailer park called simply "Camelot".
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I would assume with street names like Lancelot and King Arthur? Man I hate that.
 
Exotic? There is one around this neck of the woods called "Shangri-la"

In FL, the city I used to work for had a city-owned Trailer Park/Fish Camp called, Trailer City
 
Hink_Planner said:
I would assume with street names like Lancelot and King Arthur? Man I hate that.
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Actually, the streets are named after various members of the Kennedy family and the White House cabinet from JFKs administration. I always wanted to live on Jackie - O Road.

No I'm kidding, that would have actually been pretty cool. They're named Lancelot and such.

Shangri-La. That's awesome!
 
I briefly lived at 79 Arcadia Drive.

Mansion in Boca Raton? No.

Singe wide in Cutlerville, Michigan? Yes.
 
In East Mesa there is a 55+ retirement community called Dolce Vita. Its an odd mix of trailers and the more fashionable manufactured homes that look like houses, stucco, no wheels or lattice aroundthe bottoms etc.

I have seen many trailer parks use the term "Gardens" in the nieghborhood name.
 
Brook, Estates, and Villages seem to be popular names around here.

The DeKalb/Sycamore area has Evergreen Village, Edgebrook, and Southmoor Estates.

Up in Crystal Lake there is Oak Brook Estates, which is even more hilarious, not only for the estates part, but for the "Oak Brook" part since Oak Brook is a very wealthy suburb of Chicago, located about 30 miles from here.

"____ Mobile Home Park" is also a common naming convention in the greater Chicago area.
 
I lived in a very nice double wide for a few years in a park called Baseline Woods. It had all new double wides and very strict landscaping rules, had sidewalks, a couple of playgrounds, and was a really nice and affordable place for young families to live in. Sadly the landowner decided to sell to a developer for a lot of cash during the height of the boom and the residents were given 12 months to move.

Some other park names in the area and in NJ...

Nut Tree Estates
Oakdale
Deer Brook
Edgewood Terrace
 
illinoisplanner said:
"____ Mobile Home Park" is also a common naming convention in the greater Chicago area.
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In my mind this how a mobile home park should approach the naming process. None of this "Exeter Acres" or "Foxwood Estates", or any other name that sounds like an upper-middle class SF housing tract from the 1960's or 70's.

I actually wouldnt mind seeing names like "Bubba & Thelma's Trailer Park", provided they were used with an appropriately humorous sense of self-conscious irony (ala Jeff Foxworthy).
 
I visited a trailer park this summer for the first time (an "Acres" park). It was a scene from the "Trailer Park Boys".....the trailer park owner was a drunk who drove around all day in an old golf cart...people walking around with open liquor everywhere....quite a scene.
 
Thurgood said:
I visited a trailer park this summer for the first time (an "Acres" park). It was a scene from the "Trailer Park Boys".....the trailer park owner was a drunk who drove around all day in an old golf cart...people walking around with open liquor everywhere....quite a scene.
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I was just getting ready to post about Sunnyvale. You beat me to it.
 
If I were to apply the article writer's naming convention to the largest mobile home park in my town here, we would re-name it

"Meth Kitchen Estates". The cops already refer to it simply as "The Kitchen". 8-!
 
We had a developer buy a mobile home park and give people a year to move out and paid them based on when they moved out; the sooner they moved the more money the resident got. What I found odd (having never dealt with these before) was that about 95% of the "homes" couldn't be moved. They were either too old or too beat up to get picked up and delivered. I never understood why these places didn't just put lattice around the undersides and then drive away when they wanted to.
 
Perfect name for a park along a river - Levee
I will leave it to you which side of the levee it should be on. ;) :lmao:

Just like subdivisions - named after the the tree that was clearcut from the site or terrain feature eliminated ;) :lmao:
 
When I see a street name that includes the word "Leisure", I know it's got to be a trailer park.
 
From where I worked almost 20 years ago:

Brookridge, no trees, retirees packed in side by side on tiny lots. Development maybe a mile by 1/2 mile in size.
Cloverleaf: same as Brookridge, only way smaller. Lots of ham radio operators.
Glen Haven, manufactured homes with lots of trees and a surprisingly nice community center. Trailers were all at least a double-wide, usually with attached garages.
 
My favorite was the Nut Tree Estates in Beaverton, Oregon. It was in existence for 30+ years but generally pretty neat and tidy. The land was purchased by a big developer a couple years ago and via Google Maps there is some big ass project being built on the site and then some.

My mother had a very nice double wide in a community called Baseline Woods from 1993-2003 when she died. It had very strict standards as to the age of the manufactured housing, how it had to be finished, carports with storage sheds were required as well as extensive landscaping. It was a great community with friendly neighbors, kids that played outside, very well maintained, good school district, and it was affordable. All in, it cost about $800 per month and the annual property tax was about $750 (just for the home). Sadly, the owner of the land decided to sell to a big developer at the height of the real estate market which displaced 300 households (they received a year notice to move and compensation for relocating the home). Last look at Google Maps and it was just vacant land, they hadn't removed the streets or landscaping so I think whatever they were planning didn't come to fruition.
 
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