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Commercial Recreation Specialists Focuses on Parks, Summer Camps Company: Commercial Recreation Specialists Location: Verona, Wis. Background: Commercial Recreation Specialists was founded in 1999 by co-owners Ron Romens, president, and Rich Wills, vice president. The...Enhancing the Activity Level with a Variety of Additional Amenities
Looking to amp up the activity level at your park? One solution, according to Ron Romens, president of Commercial Recreation Specialists (CRS), Verona, Wis., is to make better use of your waterfront assets. “Where they have existing lakes or waterfront features,”...Civil War Sesquicentennial Gives Parks A Creative Marketing Tool
The 150th anniversary this year of the start of the Civil War has given RV parks and campgrounds across the Southeast a convenient marketing tool for the next five years. Starting with the commemoration of the outbreak of the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C.,...Feds Question California State Park Closings
Federal officials say California’s plan to close some state parks is illegal, KPCC-FM radio reported. The problem, says the National Park Service, is that 16 California parks accept grants from the U.S. government. In the last 45 years, California parks have...ARVC Launches 'The Battle for Savannah'
In a bid to increase attendance at its upcoming 2011 Outdoor Hospitality Conference & Expo, the National Association of RV Parks & Campgrounds (ARVC) recently launched “The Battle for Savannah” — a contest to determine which states can draw the greatest...CrossRoads RV Launches 'Operation Appreciation'
Executives of Topeka, Ind.-based CrossRoads RV, a division of Thor Industries Inc., officially launched the company’s “Operation Appreciation” program Thursday (May 26) at Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resort at Barton Lake in Fremont, Ind. The program provides...Upscale Oregon Resort Goes on Auction Block
The Riverbend Resort, with 19-room hotel and conference center, in Harrisburg, Ore., is about to go up for auction, KMTR-TV, Springfield, Ore., reported. After the original owners went bankrupt, Citizens Bank took over the resort early this year. Now the 14-acre RV...Florida/Alabama ARVC Holds 2011 Conference/Expo
Florida and Alabama camping reservations were solid this winter and reservations keep coming this spring with an excellent forecast for the summer months, reports the Florida/Alabama Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, which staged its Annual Conference and Expo...Floodwaters Threaten Sioux Falls RV Park
The water level around Larson’s Landing in Sioux Falls, S.D.,was increasing about 4 inches each day over the Memorial Day weekend and threatened what seasonal and permanent residents call home, KDLT-TV, Sioux Falls, reported. “We planned for when they said...Elwha Dam RV Park-'Best RV Park By a Dam Site'
The Elwha Dam RV Park in Washington state is keeping its signature name — even though in three years, the Elwha Dam will be no more, the Peninsula Daily reported. Bobbi Fuller, owner of the recreational vehicle park that is right across the road from the entrance to...Memorial Day Roundup from Nation's Campgrounds
The nation’s RV parks and campgrounds were the scene of many events over the Memorial Day weekend, not all of them happy ones. Following are highlights from some of the unfortunate ones: IOWA A woman died Sunday after a tree fell on her tent at Lake MacBride...
