Guests who camp out for the weekend of April 28-May 1 near the Mississippi River at the Kampgrounds of America (KOA) in Rock Island, Ill., can show off their vintage campers, television station KWQC reported. This is a family event. Dogs are welcome too, and there’s a...
The new Gypsum City (Iowa) Off-Highway Vehicle Park won’t be open to campers any time soon, said Webster County Conservation Director Matt Cosgrove, as reported by the Messenger of Fort Dodge. Cosgrove gave an update on the park at the Board of Supervisors...
Those who dump RV holding tanks at the municipally run dumping station in Saratoga, Wyo., will get a lot more honest following a meeting of the Saratoga Water and Sewer Joint Powers Board, the Saratoga Sun reported. The board agreed to install, on a trial basis, a...
Rising Star Casino Resort in Rising Sun, Ind., is working on a few projects that could help boost attendance and revenue, radio station WSCH reported. The Rising Sun riverboat is seeking to create a luxury RV park, according to Rising Sun Mayor Brent Bascom. A...
The Napa County (Calif.) Fairgrounds is on a path to making significant changes to improve its utilization and economic vitality, the Weekly Calistogan reported, and will consider what those changes will be in the coming months, officials said at last week’s board...
Pelland Advertising has a long history on the cutting edge of environmental stewardship, the Haydenville, Mass., company said in an announcement marking Earth Day, which is Friday (April 22). The company’s two primary product/service lines are website development and...
The site of a former marina and bar on Cedar Bayou in Texas is being considered for a recreational vehicle park; however, several residents along Kilgore Road are vehemently against the idea, the Baytown Sun reported. The Kilgore Road residents had their say at the...
On the heels of national park week and in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the U.S. National Park Service (NPS), PBS announced that it will present an encore broadcast of the critically acclaimed 2009 Ken Burns documentary series “The National Parks:...
When Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau used a speech in Chicago on Wednesday (April 20) to toss out an open invitation to Americans to visit Canada’s natural splendor in 2017, he may have inadvertently highlighted a potential downside for one of the Liberal...
Campground operators are missing market opportunities with tent campers, according to Larry Brownfield, director of franchise development for Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA). Speaking to park operators Monday (April 18) during the Spring Meeting of the Texas...
Neighbors of a proposed campground alongside Old Route 42 in the Bushnellville area of Shandaken, N.Y., came to the town’s planning board meeting last week to try and put a stop to a mother/daughter plan for a campground on their 108- acre property, the Catskill...
The Carter County (Tenn.) Commission accepted a recommendation from the Carter County Planning Commission to make the county’s campground regulations less restrictive, the Johnson City Press reported. The new campground regulations were approved by the planners after...
