Month: June 2012

(June 6, 2012) -- “Business is absolutely booming, our rental business is surging,” David Sammut, president of Motor Home Travel, told the National Post. The company rents 80 RVs year-round and is almost completely booked this summer due to a steady influx of European tourists. That customer base is further supported by Canadian families who don't own a cottage, but crave a summer outdoors experience, the paper noted.

(June 6, 2012) -- The owner of a Butler County campground is under investigation for failing to properly feed his horses, WPXI-TV reported. It was the second time since 2010 the campground has been investigated for animal neglect.

(June 6, 2012) -- Families can get a head start on their summer fun with free admission to any national park this Saturday, June 9. In celebration of National Get Outdoors Day, all 397 national parks will waive entrance fees. Hundreds of organizations and businesses will partner with federal, state, and local agencies to provide fun and healthy events at sites throughout the country.

(June 6, 2012) -- Jack Williamson, who owned a dog killed by a trap set next to a hiking trail in central Oregon, is concerned that proposed regulations requiring trappers to stay away from trails and campgrounds also includes a way for the state to grant exemptions, The Republic reported today.

(June 5, 2012) -- Camping World today announced their position as the world’s largest Winnebago retailer with more than $150 million in Winnebago Industries sales. Currently Camping World is the overall top motorized Winnebago retailer that accounts for 25.5 percent of Winnebago Industries net revenue according to Winnebago Industries most recent quarterly 10-Q filing.

(June 5, 2012) -- Here are the new clues for mystery location four: Heavy wilderness area, high in the Kootenay Ranges of the Rocky Mountain region, people traveled long distances to obtain "chert," a rock mined at the top of this park, and moose, elk, bear, wolverine and porcupine are found here.

(June 5, 2012) -- Patti Parenteau was named the new location manager for Campers Inn Leesburg. She has been a part of the Campers Inn Leesburg team since the dealership's opening in 2005. Parenteau is a long time RV industry veteran of 30 years starting out with the parts and accessories side of the business then growing in the service side of the industry. She then moved to the finance and insurance side of the business.

(June 5, 2012) -- A phone call to police from managers of Victoria Palms RV Resort in Donna, Texas, lead to the discovery of a stash house in the park, KGBT-TV reported. By the time officers and Border Patrol agents arrived, neighbors saw over a dozen illegal immigrants jump the fence and flee into a nearby cornfield, the station noted.

(June 5, 2012) -- John Jamtgaard, a 69-year-old welder who works at Winnebago Industries, won an $8,000 top prize in June 2010 after purchasing the “Fat Cat Doubler” scratch game at Kum & Go in Mason City. This time, he won $10,000 playing the lottery’s new “Triple Fortune” instant-scratch game, the Globe Gazette reported.

(June 5, 2012) -- New Jersey resident Larry Socha often camps overnight in Walmart parking lots inside his $1.2 million motorhome. But the Daily Herald reported today that when he drove into the Chicago area to attend his 50th high school reunion, his RV was towed away from the parking lot of a Glen Ellyn Walmart while he was running errands for his 90-year-old mother.