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Campgrounds Figure into Rodeo Host Plans

City officials have received word that Gallup, N.M., will host the Wrangler Jr. High Rodeo for two more years after this summer. The event’s supervising board voted 25-24 on Jan. 24 to give the event to Gallup in 2010 and 2011. Its current contract already provides...

New Venue for NCA Camping Conference

“Come for the Experience and Stay for the Fun” is the slogan for the 45th Annual Northeast Conference on Camping & Trade Show to be held March 19-21 at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, Mass. The conference will attract many of the 1,200-member...

Campgrounds Enter 2009 on Positive Note

Linda Profaizer, president and CEO of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC), had just enough numbers at her fingertips this week to feel buoyed by the prospects for her industry in 2009. Bookings processed on the gocampingamerica.com website...

New York Mounts Asian Beetle Fight

The state of New York will check its campgrounds next month to hunt for an invasive tree-eating Asian beetle that may have hitched a ride from an outbreak now raging in Massachusetts. The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is pulling...

Talladega Raceway RV Parks Fill up for Race

Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., is urging customers that intend to bring an RV to Talladega Superspeedway for the race in April to act quickly and reserve their overnight parking spaces. Several RV overnight parks have already sold out and the remaining...

Talladega Raceway RV Parks Fill up for Race

Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Ala., is urging customers that intend to bring an RV to Talladega Superspeedway for the race in April to act quickly and reserve their overnight parking spaces. Several RV overnight parks have already sold out and the remaining...

New York Mounts Asian Beetle Fight

The state of New York will check its campgrounds next month to hunt for an invasive tree-eating Asian beetle that may have hitched a ride from an outbreak now raging in Massachusetts. The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is pulling...

Campgrounds Enter 2009 on Positive Note

Linda Profaizer, president and CEO of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC), had just enough numbers at her fingertips this week to feel buoyed by the prospects for her industry in 2009. Bookings processed on the gocampingamerica.com website...

Campgrounds Figure into Rodeo Host Plans

City officials have received word that Gallup, N.M., will host the Wrangler Jr. High Rodeo for two more years after this summer. The event’s supervising board voted 25-24 on Jan. 24 to give the event to Gallup in 2010 and 2011. Its current contract already provides...

New Venue for NCA Camping Conference

“Come for the Experience and Stay for the Fun” is the slogan for the 45th Annual Northeast Conference on Camping & Trade Show to be held March 19-21 at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, Mass. The conference will attract many of the 1,200-member...

Super Bowl QB’s Kin Live in Florida RV Park

As the nation obsesses over the Super Bowl this week, there is a Fort Myers Beach, Fla., couple even more interested than most people. Frank and Fran Foust live the quiet old Florida lifestyle for about six months every year. They own a small RV permanently parked at...

RV Shipments Off 75% in Dec., 33% for Year

Last year ended with a thud for the recreational vehicle wholesale sector as shipments dropped 75% from 2007, pulling year-end totals to a sharp 32.9% decline. According to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), overall December shipments totaled 5,600...