Encore RV Resorts and Thousand Trails, which are owned and operated by Equity LifeStyle Properties, are sharing their commitment to environmentally friendly RVing with their guests by offering free samples of Nature-Zyme – an environmentally friendly holding tank...
The tsunami caused by the Japanese earthquake 5,000 miles away and rising fuel prices have put a damper on reservations at Sounds of the Sea RV Park in Trinidad, Calif. “Reservations have been slow,” said Robert Strety, owner of the 68-site park that sits on a hill...
Recreation vehicles currently fill the parking lot of the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center in Shawnee, Okla. Expo operations manager Michael Jackson expects more than $19,000 in lot rental fees from hosting the Good Sam Club RV rally this week. The center also will...
For the first time in almost 24 years, as of the end of April I’ll not have any official role with the National Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (ARVC). In late March, ARVC announced that it has engaged a “powerhouse” law firm to handle the association’s...
Editor’s Note: The following column was written by Evanne Schmarder on behalf of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC). ARVC President Bambei Outlines Summer Marketing Program ARVC’s first national campaign aimed at young American families...
Editor’s Note: The following column was written by Linda Profaizer. It’s once again time to test your preparedness for your first guests of the season. There is so much to think about: Have we changed all of our advertising and marketing messages to reflect the...
Editor’s Note: Read this and other stories in the April issue of Woodall’s Campground Management, now going out to 14,000 RV parks and campgrounds across North America. In many ways, the furniture and accessories that spruce up a campground and individual...
It’s a real challenge to privatize just one former government campground in British Columbia. Just ask Bernard Chingee. The former forestry recreational camp on Summit Lake near Prince George, British Columbia, will be allowed to be reopened as a commercial...
Rescuers freed two maintenance workers at Tuxbury Pond Campground in southern New Hampshire after a pine tree fell on their utility vehicle while they were driving along a road leading into the camp, The Daily News of Newburyport reported. Acting Amesbury fire Lt....
Flanners Beach in Craven County’s Croatan National Forest in North Carolina along the Atlantic Ocean Coast sustained major damage due to Saturday’s (April 16) deadly storms and may not open as scheduled on May 1, the Sun Journal reported. James Cherry, a fire...
Dogwood Acres Campground, a 100-site facility near Newville, Pa., is open for the season and unaffected by recent flooding nearby. The Shippensburg News-Chronicle and Valley-Times Star regrets an error on the front page of the Valley-Times Star April 20 that reports...
Editor’s Note: The following column was written by Mark Warszawski and appeared in The Fresno (Calif.) Bee. These old, fried brain cells don’t retain much from their college days, but they do recall walking into the first day of economics class and seeing...