Editor’s Note: Deb Carter, executive director of the Maryland Association of Campgrounds (MAC)) filed this report from the MAC Fall Meeting held Tuesday (Oct. 27) at the Queen Anne’s County Exploration Center in Chester, Md.  “We had a great turnout – more than...
 While hotels and motels in Alberta struggled with declining numbers this year, campground and RV park operators were busy, according to the Calgary Herald. For Sue Gyonyor, who runs the Buffalo Plains RV Park and Campground near Fort Macleod with her husband, 2009...
 David and Deidre Carroll from Keller, Texas, are the $10,000 grand prize winners of the Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park 40th Anniversary Video Contest. The Carrolls and their daughters Ashton (age 7) and Jordan (age 5), received their $10,000 prize and a basket full of...
The Arizona Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (Arizona ARVC) is stepping up its marketing of private campgrounds and RV parks and resorts with a redesigned website at www.azarvc.com. The site, which went live this fall, includes easier-to-read formats and...
With a camp fire crackling in a fire ring and a canopy set up over a pair of picnic tables at a campsite in Little River State Park near Waterbury, Vt., the state’s Forests, Parks and Recreation staff built the case Wednesday (Oct. 28) for future capital...
 The Boulder City, Nev., Council on Tuesday (Oct. 27) amended an ordinance that doesn’t allow lot owners at the Boulder Oaks RV Resort to stay more than 180 consecutive days a year, now requiring them to leave for just one day. Community members of the recreational...
The 16 temporary campgrounds that pop up in Florida’s Volusia County during events such as Biketoberfest take in thousands of dollars from bikers who just want a place to pitch a tent. Yet many of those businesses operate on land that is partially or totally...
Campgrounds and RV parks nationally have seen a mild drop in visitors because of the recession, but campgrounds in the Louisiana’s Tri-parishes west of New Orleans are largely doing well, say local park owners. Part of the reason is most campgrounds in the area...
Tennessee and North Carolina have something to brag about, according to WBIR-TV, Knoxville, Tenn. Out of all the national parks, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was the top 2008 money maker. This is according to a National Park Service (NPS) report generated...
Editor’s Note: Â Maria Davis-Seale, a staff writer for the Mount Pleasant (Texas) Daily Tribune, sat in during recent tax appeals hearings. Following are excerpts from her story. It’s an extremely heavy year for property tax appraisal protests, according to...
 Not all the campground news out of California is about cutbacks. Napa Valley Exposition wants to add nine spaces to its recreation vehicle park, saying it would be a money-maker, according to the Napa Valley Register. Over the past two months, the 21-space park has...
The campground at Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park near Dawson Springs, Ky., will receive $1.1 million so horse camping sites can be added, First Lady Jane Beshear announced Tuesday (Oct. 27). The expansion of the campground is in the design phase and state park...
