Month: July 2014

(July 2, 2014) -- Tennessee State Parks held a grand re-opening for the Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park campground in Limestone, Tenn. on Monday, with state and local officials.

(July 1, 2014) -- There appear to be just two permanent residents at the Little Harbor Campground, a remote camping spot on Santa Catalina Island off the coast of southern California: the local ranger and an elderly bison whom the islanders affectionately call Brutus.

(July 2, 2014) -- A Maori Land Court judge has ordered the Bank of New Zealand to hand over bank statements linked to Oamaru Bay Holiday Park in Coromandel, New Zealand.

(July 1, 2014) -- Six travel pros have offered Forbes their favorite, affordable, and last-minute-planning-approved vacation destinations perfect for families.

Pledging to eliminate what its executives termed “commodity-driven RV sales,” Skyline RV Group staged its first dealer meeting since before to the Great Recession for a group of about 80 retailers June 3-5 at the sprawling Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Ill., in the west Chicago suburbs. Skyline’s informal get-together — more akin to […]

(July 2, 2014) -- For the past year, construction of five camper cabins, equipped for year-round camping, have been underway at Forestville-Mystery Cave State Park.

(July 1, 2014) -- Officials with the North Dakota and Minnesota state park systems said visitations have been trending upward the past few years, though they said fickle weather can turn a promising summer season into a snoozer.

(July 1, 2014) -- This year the U.S. Forest Service has seen about a 25 percent uptick in the number of people reserving campsites on Independence Pass for the holiday compared to last year, according to Martha Moran, recreation supervisor for the Forest Service’s Aspen-Sopris Ranger District, Colo.

(July 1, 2014) -- TripTrist Travel Planners reveals how to go on a camping adventure this holiday weekend without reservations. They suggest to check ReserveAmerica.com to see if anyone has cancelled, and then to look into dispersed camping.

Coyote Ranch Resort in Wichita Falls is kicking off the 2014 travel season as the sixth campground in Texas to join the Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resort chain. “We feel this is the right move for us,”said Judy Sorge, general manager of the 90-acre resort, which features 123 RV sites and 23 cabins and cottages […]