The Red Bluff, Calif., City Council Tuesday (July 19) will consider amending the city’s transient occupancy tax code in an effort to end a controversy between the city and Durango RV Resort. The proposed amendment to the TOT ordinance would explicitly include...
Quietly, and with hardly anyone objecting, a big chunk of the services provided to visitors at Florida’s state parks is being privatized. As of this month the state has handed over the job of running a lodge, a number of restaurants and gift shops, and one canoe...
It is the oldest national parks service in the world, a national conservation and recreation program that spans twice the domain – both aquatic and terrestrial – that it did just a half decade ago. Parks Canada turned 100 this year. Celebrations to mark the centenary...
Editor’s Note: Dana Gabriel, president of the Carolinas Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (CARVC), wrote the following editorial which appears in the summer issue of CARVC’s “The Full Hook Up.” Click here to read the entire issue,...
A South Carolina woman was killed and two others were seriously injured Saturday (July 16) when a pickup truck went out of control in a camping area at a weekend music festival about 30 miles east of Morgantown, W. Va., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported...
The Allegan County Pleasure Riders’ scavenger hunt, on horseback and on foot, at Silver Creek Campground near Hamilton, Mich., is just one example of the swell of activity on the improved system of trails and campgrounds designated for horses at the Allegan...
Entrepreneur Andy Cates, the guy who is credited with helping steer the NBA to Memphis, Tenn., is now driven to shake up the RV park and campground industry with his fledgling enterprise, RVC Outdoor Destinations. Cates recently took a reporter from the Commercial...
Cheney Fox saw a wall of water on the lake April 27 as he and his son, Dustin, watched from the boat ramp in the slough at Coosahatchee Campground near Ohatchee, Ala. “I told Dustin, ‘That’s a tornado, and it’s coming straight for us,’” Fox said last...
A cherished camping site nestled along the rocky shore of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast was left “ankle-deep” in garbage and broken glass by vandals who also tagged the site’s pristine rock bluffs with spray-paint during a rowdy weekend party, the...
When Matt and Tracy Hawkins opened the Spur Campground two years ago on 20 acres in Piedmont, S.D., they tried to make it a destination in itself, rather than just a place to sleep, the Rapid City Journal reported. “I just tried to do as many things as possible that I...
A teenage boy sleeping in a tent at a campground near Leadville, Colo., was grabbed by a black bear and bitten early Friday (July 15), wildlife officials said. The bear was tracked and killed Friday evening, KMGH-TV, Denver, reported. The attack occurred around 4 a.m....
Editor’s Note: The following column was written by Ron Littlepage, a writer for the Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla. He provides his take on the state park privatization proposal under consideration in the Sunshine State. I spent several hours last week...
