Month: September 2015

(Sept. 25, 2015) -- Granted, I didn't spend a lot of time out and about in the displays because we had a steady stream of people coming into my motorhome to record podcasts at the open house, but attendance seemed down to me. Perhaps the displays were scattered over larger areas, or the tents were bigger, but seating was plentiful at this year's bigger event.

(Sept. 25, 2015) — Each of Downriver's metroparks has something unique to offer visitors. For Lower Huron Metropark, it could be the river itself, the News-Herald reported. The Huron River flows through Willow Metropark also, but you have to look for it.

(Sept. 25, 2015) — The number of visitors buying permits and staying overnight at Minnesota State Parks has increased in the past year, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said.

(Sept. 25, 2015) — Urban Campsite changes location every year, Inhabitat reported. This year it was situated east of the Dutch capital at the tip of an artificial island called IJburg.

(Sept. 25, 2015) -- The Fall RV Show and Bargain Expo is back for its 46th year in Oklahoma City. Held Oct. 15 to 18, and spread out over the Cox Pavilion, the Centennial Building and the Oklahoma Expo Hall out at State Fair Park, attendees will be invited to “Come and Get It.”

La Mesa RV Center Inc. announced the retirement of longtime President Jim Walters. Walters joined La Mesa in 1985, as a controller for the Los Angeles area stores and has spent most of the past 30 years working closely with company founder, chairman and CEO Jim Kimbrell. Today, the company has 11 locations located in […]

(Sept. 25, 2015) — The moment you drive into Roaring River State Park near Cassville, Mo., you are taken by its natural beauty, the Kansas City Star reported.

(Sept. 25, 2015) — An official of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources believes yellow jackets may have been the actual culprits in the attack of two horse riders at Forbes State Park near Omega this weekend, WJBD reported.

(Sept. 25, 2015) —  On Friday morning, in a scene torn from the tattered pages of the Old West, South Dakota’s own thundering herd will surge across the prairie, hooves pounding, in a display unlike any other in the world, BlackHillstoGo.com reported.

(Sept. 25, 2015) — Three years ago, in October, 2012, West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin came to Berkeley Springs to make a promise to Jim Michael, president of the Cacapon State Park Foundation — that the state would fund a $23.5 million renovation project at the Park, Morgan County USA reported.