Month: October 2012

(Oct. 15, 2012) -- The RV/MH Hall of Fame has launched a new website dedicated to promoting the Northern Indiana Event Center. The Hall recently announced it is doing business as the Northern Indiana Event Center as well as the RV/MH Hall of Fame, and branding the south entrance of its complex as the Event Center.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- The updated MobileRVing mobile app provides travelers with the ability to search over 10,000 nearby RV parks, resorts and campgrounds in the U.S. and Canada by name, state/province, city, zip code radius or simply a listing of nearby locations.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- Canada’s national parks, particularly the mountain parks, are losing their focus on ecological integrity by allowing “amusement park infrastructure” to draw in visitors, says the former vice chair of a federal task force set up to protect the beloved areas in a Calgary Herald article.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- Yorkshire-based Wellhouse Leisure, a compact motorhome and campervan converter, will display its new special edition Bianco at the The Motorhome & Caravan Show 2012, reports Out And About Live.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- The New York Times reports on a push to address the backlog of deferred maintenance and infrastructure projects across New York’s state parks, which last spring received an infusion of $89 million from the governor and the Legislature for capital improvements.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- The Toronto Fall RV Show & Sale starts today and runs through Oct. 14 at the Toronto Congress Center.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- Kristen Brengel, National Parks Conservation Association’s Director of Government and Legislative Affairs, in the second of several stories on the upcoming presidential election talks about questions NPCA would like to ask the candidates.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- It’s Tiffin’s 40th anniversary and they'll be hosting the Tiffin Preview Rally this weekend, Oct. 12-14, at the Lazydays RV Campground in Tampa, Fla. Attendees will get an in-depth look at the all-new 2013 Tiffin motorhomes and get to spend time with several Tiffin representatives.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- The 44th annual Southern California Elks Rally is being held this weekend at in Hemet, reports the Press-Enterprise.

(Oct. 12, 2012) -- According to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's preliminary October reading, consumer sentiment rose to 83.1, up from 78.3 in September. The reading is the highest reported since Sept. 2007, reports Reuters.