As with all good threads... (lots of interesting answers). Our story. Our lifestyle visit began when BW was rising... You could see the watertower in the distance, but could not approach it from the north (literally no roads there)... Over the past four years the area to the north (all TV) grew in with houses and BW itself appeared in full. As we made many additional visits (before purchasing on the other side in Osceola Hills), we adopted BW as "our TS" but, being good TVers, we went to LSL and SP as well. Our verdict? Features. SP is beautiful, charming, interesting, lovely... sitting around the square on a warm evening, wonderful. LSL, gorgeous sunsets, beautiful vistas over water, the board walk... sorry, that is tough to beat; simply amazing dining on the Lighthouse deck.... Then BW. features? No vistas, no water, no big trees, no charming (aged) architecture... We go because it's "our side of town" and we want to support our side. We do not go for the features (that are currently present). IMHO, for crowds to appear, for people to come and linger, you need more than "Rocky and the Rollers"... (but great bands do work wonders too); you need something amazing, something wonderful, something interesting to see, to walk around, to be with... A working mill with a waterfall feature into a nice pond with wildlife... perhaps misplaced on a western theme, but something. A crop of faux mesas with waterfalls. A raceway of water threading through a sliver of the property. Imagine it, build it.
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