Month: July 2013

(July 15, 2013) -- Jellystone Parks added four parks in three states in the past two years, bringing the total to 79 locations. The franchise reported total revenues of $73.7 million in 2012, a 10 percent jump over 2011 figures.  Average 2012 revenue per park was $953,533, a 7 percent increase over the previous year.

(July 15, 2013) -- High river waters, flooding and rain forced the Kinston Nature Park campground to shut down last Monday. With the threat of more rain, Nature Park officials also asked all campers to evacuate until further notice, reports WNCT.

(July 15, 2013) -- On the inside, Precept comes with Corian kitchen countertops, day/night solar screen and 36-inch shower with glass door. Outside, there is an entertainment station with 40-inch LED TV, pass-through storage with slam latch baggage doors and frameless windows.

(July 15, 2013) -- With a full house and apartment market, people have increasingly turned to alternative housing, like RVs and mobile homes, as a way to find shelter in Odessa, writes the Odessa American.

(July 15, 2013) -- In the world of housing and shelter, the recreational vehicle can also qualify for the mortgage interest deduction as a second home, writes the Prescott Daily Courier.

(July 15, 2013) -- This past weekend, Gammy Woods Campground in Sherman hosted a "Christmas in July" celebration. Campers made Christmas ornaments, and camp host Julie Robinson decorated her campsite, complete with an inflatable snowman and a Christmas tree, writes The Morning Sun.

(July 15, 2013) -- After a series of unfortunate events left him and his wife homeless, Randy, a disabled U.S. Army veteran, is living at the Hawthorn Park campground in Terre Haute this summer in an older camper trailer loaned to them by a friend, writes the Indianapolis Star.

(July 15, 2013) -- Governor Pat Quinn today joined Navistar International Corporation for the grand opening of its new Test and Development Center in Melrose Park, Ill. The international truck and diesel engine manufacturer renovated its existing Melrose Park facility into a state-of-the-art center to develop cutting-edge product solutions, creating an additional 200 construction jobs in Illinois.

(July 15, 2013) -- Carolyn Underwood does not consider herself to be outdoorsy, yet she camped for six months last year at Chester Frost Park in Hixson, writes the Chattanooga Times Free Press. However, she and her husband, Steve, were hardly roughing it in their fully equipped RV.

(July 15, 2013) -- The Morning Sun reports that every campsite at the Soaring Eagle Hideaway RV park in Mt. Pleasant was filled on a recent weekend, and that’s becoming normal, according to Bonnie Sprague, general manager of the Soaring Eagle Waterpark and the RV park.