Aberdeen is looking to bring more visitors into town. Tonight the parks board is asking the city council for the go-ahead on a 2 million dollar expansion at Wylie Park. 

It wants to add 22 camping cabins, 23 RV sites and a tenting area. 

Just about every year, Brian Pederson camps at Wylie Park with his family. 

"Oh it's the wide open space, the excellent facilities, the variety of things they have to do here and stuff that it's just hard to beat," Pederson said. 

But it's also hard to get a camping spot, especially in the summer months. Some weekends fill up a week or two after the park starts taking reservations. At times more than a hundred camping requests are turned down on a single weekend. It's happened to Pederson. 

"Yeah bigger would definitely be better," Pederson said. 

Since they turn away so many campers, they wouldn't expect to have any trouble filling those extra sites. And with the extra money the expansion would bring in, they don't expect to have any trouble paying for the project either. 

"We anticipate the revenue, the additional revenue that is generated should be just over $100,000 per year in net profit," Director Doug Johnson said. 

Johnson says it could go hand-in-hand with other developments in the park, especially in Storybook Land, to attract more people. 

"We have a real nice time here," Pederson said. 

If the city council gives the OK, the park expects to have the set up for more campers complete come spring of 2010. 

This is just the first part of a three-phase expansion plan. Johnson says he does not expect the first phase to satisfy the camping demand at the park.