Month: July 2014

(July 21, 2014) -- A new shower house has replaced a 1968 building used for bathrooms and showers at Pilot Knob State Park campground.

(July 21, 2014) -- Two campers died when a tornado ripped through neighboring campsites in Ardèche and Gard on a weekend that saw much of France battered by storms.

(July 21, 2014) -- There are calls for camping and caravanning near Port Arthur beach, Australia to be regulated following claims of human waste and other waste not being properly disposed of.

Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) marked a major milestone today (July 21) in a move that has long-term implications for the company. The supplier hired a helicopter to install nine air-conditioning units on the roof of its new, 490,000-square-foot facility in Goshen, Ind. When the facility opens at the end of the fourth quarter, it will bring […]

(July 21, 2014) -- Several days of rain showers have made a dramatic difference in the wildfire hazard across the northwest -- but campers are being advised not to let their guard down.

(July 21, 2014) -- A brush burn spread to a nearby travel trailer Saturday afternoon, damaging the structure in Clinton County, NY.

  Winnebago Industries Inc. reported that the WIT Club’s 2014 Grand National Rally (GNR) was a great success with about 1,000 motorhomes on-site at the company’s rally grounds in Forest City, Iowa. In keeping with the “Out of This World” theme, activities at the July 16-20 event included a visit from NASA’s Orion Project and the University of […]

(July 21, 2014) -- The open road is a bug that baby boomers are catching these days as they look toward their societal seniority, says Ron Sleeper, owner of The RV Center in Columbia City, Ind.

(July 21, 2014) -- Phillip Weaver, a camper at Lake Stephens Campground in Raleigh County, W.Va., makes fresh biscuits in a cast iron dutch oven over a campfire between 8 and 9 each day to share with his fellow campers.

EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC, along with sister companies Stealth Trailers and Starcraft Distribution and EverGreen’s Lifestyle Luxury RV division, kicked off a fundraiser for Will Mishler, a 15-year-old student at Northridge High School in Middlebury, Ind. In September, 2012, Mishler suffered a football injury that resulted in a doctor’s visit. He was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a […]