Year-over-year retail towable sales dipped in October – down 5.3% – while registrations rose 4.4% for the first 10 months. The sector has been relatively flat since January of this year, posting marginal monthly gains or losses in registrations. According to the...
Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) has awarded the Meadville KOA Campground in Pennsylvania with the 2011 President’s Award, according to a press release. The award was presented Nov. 8 at KOA’s annual convention in Las Vegas. The KOA President’s Award is presented...
Park operators who attended the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC) recent Outdoor Hospitality Convention & Expo in Savannah, Ga., said they expect to save thousands of dollars as a result of the association’s latest member benefit programs for...
Lori Severson of the Wisconsin Association of Campground Owners (WACO) was selected as the new president of Campground Association Management Professionals (CAMP) during the group’s recent meeting in Savannah, Ga. Severson replaces Rick Abare of the Maine Campground...
A resilient and adaptive consumer base will help RV industry shipments continue on a flat but stable track in the coming year, according to University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin in the Winter edition of Road Signs. “RV sales face stiff headwinds in the year...
Year-over-year motorhome sales retreated 17.6% in October as the Class A and Class C markets both endured double-digit declines. For the first 10 months, overall motorhome sales were down just 0.3%, according to the latest report from Statistical Surveys Inc. (SSI)....
The 48th Annual Pennsylvania Campground Owners Association (PCOA) Convention was held Dec. 5-7 at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pa., and will go down in the history books as one of the best ever. There was an excitement in the air. The facility was perfect,...
When Denny Quigley bought the 164-site Kozy Rest Kampground in Harrisville, Pa., 11 years ago, it was a run-down park with very little seasonal or overnight business. But, according to a press release, it’s a different story today. As one of the newest additions to...
Trees knocked down by a windstorm Dec. 1 in the central Sierra Nevada in California will block forest roads and disrupt vacation plans for months to come, according to state and federal forest managers. At Calaveras Big Trees State Park near Arnold, officials are...
The city of Chamberlain, S.D., and the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GF&P) Department remain in negotiations over how to proceed with about $150,000 in flood-damage repairs at American Creek Recreation Area in Chamberlain, The Daily Republic reported. The...
Mary Arlington has sold her High Plains Camping campground in Oakley, Kan., to Jim and Jessie DesRoches. Arlington, a former board member of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds (ARVC), resigned her positions this week as president and treasurer of...
Editor’s Note: William E. Small, owner of Small Country Camping in Louisa, Va., provided this Letter to the Editor on an opposing viewpoint on the contentious issue of state park campgrounds joining private RV park and campground associations. On Oct. 13, Small...
