Equity LifeStyle Properties Inc. (ELS) today (June 3) announced that the company has entered into agreements to obtain $435 million in new mortgage loans from institutional lenders. The loans will be secured by mortgages on 25 manufactured home and RV properties and,...
The first quarter was a kind quarter for the recreational vehicle industry. Building on three years of continuous growth, the RV industry experienced an 11.2% gain in units shipped in the quarter compared to the first quarter in 2012. And that growth is expected to...
Editor’s Note: The following Letter to the Editor written by Greg Kordal, a Lewes, Del., resident, appeared in the Cape Gazette, Lewes. The Sussex County proposed 2014 budget delivered good news for residents with property taxes and sewer costs held flat or...
The storms that struck southwest Missouri on Friday and Saturday (May 31 and June 1) sent rivers over their banks and forced several campground closings, the Springfield News-Leader reported. In Christian County, a couple who had been staying in a cabin near the...
City officials in Uhrichsville, Ohio, are looking to other communities in the area for ideas as they craft an ordinance to ban people from living in recreational vehicles (RVs). They hope to have legislation ready to be passed by council at its June 13 meeting,...
Embers escaping from an approved fire-use campsite sparked the White Fire that burned nearly 2,000 acres last week in the Lower Santa Ynez Recreation Area, according to investigators. Law enforcement officers from the Los Padres National Forest and the Santa Barbara...
Summer got off to a record start at Bryce Canyon and Wind Cave national parks, where holiday weekend crowds set records, National Parks Traveler reported. At Wind Cave in South Dakota, even though the weather was cool and blustery the park recorded the highest...
Jack and Rita Lawrie rode out the tornado two years ago in the cellar of the recreational hall at Village Green Campground near Springfield, Mass., crawling out to find a mess of twisted trees and shattered campers, including their own. It took them about three weeks...
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander will receive the 2013 Sheldon Coleman Great Outdoors Award, the recreation community’s most prestigious award, at a special Great Outdoors Week celebration on Wednesday (June 5). The award was created in 1989 to honor the lifelong...
The California state parks system, beset by financial problems and scandal, is launching a study commission that leaders hope will reshape the system and restore public confidence and financial stability. The group of private sector business leaders will study...
