Month: November 2011

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- The Hays Daily News says the owner of Tripe J Campground was told she had the perfect location to open a Christmas-themed park. The park, complete with reindeer, is now open on weekends.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- In Texas, Bastrop State Park will open some areas of the park on Friday, December 2.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- The Austin Herald reports the sights and sounds of Christmas are being seen and heard nightly at the Jellystone Park just outside of Austin, Minn.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports escaped flames from a propane stove touched off a fire that destroyed an RV at a Guerneville mobile home park Friday.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- The Marlborough Express reports that the Department of Conservation is looking for volunteers to be camp hosts or hut wardens at several campgrounds around the Marlborough Sounds this summer.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- “Jerry is well-acquainted with the RV industry and well-versed in the needs of FMCA. His years of experience will be an asset as he leads the association and also works to grow FMCA’s membership base,” Mr. Schrenkel noted.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- Al.com is reporting an out-of-state investor paid $210,000 for South Baldwin RV Park/Baldwin Mini-Warehouse Center in Foley, Ala.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- The Mankato Free Press reports a stolen television with an odd brand name led investigators to three suspects in a string of burglaries discovered at a Madison Lake resort earlier this month.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- On Saturday night, a helicopter was requested for two hunters who were lost and stranded on a rock out-cropping in Piru Creek in the Los Padres National Forest. The two were located using the glow of a cell phone screen, reports KHTS Radio.

(Nov. 28, 2011) -- Visitors have ignored "No trespassing" signs and freight trains for more than five generations to walk onto the bridge at Letchworth State Park, but that could end soon: the owner wants to tear it down and build a modern bridge 75 feet to the south, reports the Buffalo News.