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Go RVing Canada Launches New Blog/Mapping Tool
Go RVing Canada today (Aug. 3) announced its newest website feature: a blog/mapping tool available for viewing by all RV enthusiasts who visit www.GoRVing.ca. This new feature will be an excellent source of personal RVing stories, tips about RVing, suggestions for...N.H. Campground/Campers Stave Off Tax Bite
From the August issue of Northeast InSites comes this report from Gregg Pitman, executive director of the New Hampshire Campground Owners’ Association, about an effective lobbying effort. With a very tight state budget, some communities are beginning to look...Skyline Corp. Named ARVC Preferred Provider
The National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) and Skyline Corp. have negotiated an agreement that gives Skyline “preferred provider” status on park model and travel trailer sales to ARVC-member parks in the U.S. and Canada. “I am very excited to have...Flood Victim Heads Home, But Others Stay in RV Parks
On Saturday (July 30), Steve DeBoom packed up the RV, checked out of the North Sioux City, S.D., KOA Kampground and headed home to Dakota Dunes. Life is looking up. So sick from cancer treatments that “I had to be pushed up here,” when he fled the threat...Yosemite National Park Claims 14th Victim of 2011
A woman slipped to her death Sunday (July 31) while descending Half Dome in the rain, the latest accident at Yosemite National Park in a year that is breaking records for the deadliest in recent history, the Associated Press reported. Fourteen people have died so far...Outdoor Afro Creator Plans Sierra Nevada Campout
Rue Mapp, creator of the OutdoorAfro website, takes to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada when she travels with her nephew and three children for a three-day camping trip Aug. 12-14 at Ponderosa Resort in Lotus, Calif. Camp-California.com and Ponderosa Resort are...Alberta Eyes Tourism Uptick from Royal Visit
It may be years yet before those photos of Will and Kate in the white hats attract throngs of jet-set world travelers, but Alberta tourism bosses are noting an uptick in the number of visitors coming to the province since the royal couple visited in early July....Aggressive Yellowstone Grizzly Euthanized
Rangers have taken the rare step of capturing and killing a grizzly bear deemed a threat to human safety in Yellowstone National Park after the bruin menaced a hiker without any apparent provocation, Reuters reported. Bear managers said the 4-year-old male grizzly was...Erie, Pa., Area Parks Enjoy Busy Summer
Matt May doesn’t need to look at a calendar to know when something big is going on in Erie, Pa. Instead, he looks around his campground, located on Sterrettania Road just north of Interstate 90. During major events this summer, May’s Presque Isle Passage...Florida 'Pure Trust' Touter Tells His Story in Jail
While in the Hernando County, Fla., jail for contempt of court in January 2010, Jacob-Franz Dyck explained to Hernando County’s attorney Jon Jouben how he tries to help people facing foreclosure by putting their real estate into “pure trusts” that are protected by...New Jellystone Franchisee Makes Major Improvements
When Shawnie and Oliver McMichael took a weekend camping trip with their five kids and other family members a few weeks ago, they didn’t have far to go. They camped at the Black Canyon Jellystone Park Camp-Resort – just a few minutes away from their home in Montrose,...
