Month: January 2015

(Jan. 22, 2015) -- Rising demand is pushing Berrien Springs, Mich., to add more sites to its Shamrock Park Campground. The Village council this week authorized 10 to 11 site to be created this year.

(Jan. 22, 2014) -- Campers making reservations at Michigan State Parks will start to notice the $4 fee increase. Sites at popular campgrounds are already booked because state park campgrounds allow campers to book sites six months in advance.

(Jan. 22, 2015) -- Initial unemployment claims in the United States fell by 10,000 to 307,000 in the week ending Jan. 17, which only partially retraced a cumulative 36,000 increase in the preceding four weeks, RBC Economics announced.

(Jan. 22, 2014) -- Beginning Friday, the sixth annual Outdoor Sports, Lake and Cabin Show will bring together exhibitors for three days at the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. On Jan. 29, less than a week later, the four-day Fort Wayne RV & Camping Show will showcase nearly 300 RVs and campers.

(Jan. 22, 2015) -- One woman was injured on Wednesday after a propane accident caused a fire that destroyed her camper at the Canoe River Campground in Mansfield, Mass.

(Jan. 22, 2015) -- The Algarve, Portugal, is set to launch a network to house camper vans following an agreement reached yesterday by four regional entities. Visits to Algarve have more than doubled in two years.

Elkhart, Ind.-based Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) announced the launch of a new, more user-friendly online RV parts and accessories store that is better aligned with the company’s “strategic vision for the future,” including simple business-to-business ordering for dealers. “We outgrew the old store platform as we continued to expand our online product offering, so it was […]

A Millet, Alberta-area man and woman were acquitted Wednesday (Jan. 21) of defrauding a British Columbia man out of a $45,000 bank loan as part of a motorhome rental business. The Edmonton Journal reported that Rebekah Donszelmann, 33, and her former husband, Steven Weeres, 55, were cleared after Court of Queen’s Bench Justice John Little […]

The RV/MH Heritage Foundation paid its debt to the Ingram Family Trust Fund this week and took a major step forward to meet its goal of being totally debt-free in five years, according to Foundation Chairman and President Darryl Searer. Thanks to the generosity of the Ingram family, the $2.9 million debt was paid off […]

A Sunday morning ice storm temporarily put the skids on the 48th Annual New Jersey RV & Camping Show, but overall dealers were positive about the “buying mood” displayed by consumers during the Jan. 16-18 event at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison. The show was produced by GS Media & Events, a division of Good Sam Enterprises LLC, which […]