Month: February 2016

(Feb. 18, 2016) -- Alaska’s statewide budget cuts have hit the Department of Natural Resources, and now the organization is looking to privatize operations of four Valdez-area parks, which will no longer have state-funded support beginning in July.

(Feb. 18, 2016) -- The sale and dispatch of new touring caravans, motorhomes and caravan holiday homes in the UK increased by 10.3 per cent in 2015 compared to 2014, new statistics from the National Caravan Council (NCC) have revealed.

(Feb. 18, 2016) -- Based on an average price-per-share of $25.6, Victor Casini, the LKQ Corporation’s senior vice president and general counsel unloaded 8,000 shares of Lkq Corp worth approx. $204,480.

(Feb. 18, 2016) -- Outdoors Geek founder Will Marquardt realized, as he approaches $1 million in revenue, that he needed to double his space. “We had about 3,500 square feet over there and we were packed in like sardines,” he said. “Our budget called for 165 new tents this year and we didn’t have any room for them. When you’re a growing business and you’re already in a cramped space, that’s a problem.”

(Feb. 18, 2016) — Nicholas Barber of Roscommon, Mich., is the first instant winner of a new 2016 Coleman 262BH travel trailer valued at $18,000 in the Camping World and Good Sam Golden Giveaway. Barber received his lucky Golden Giveaway scratch-off ticket at the Houghton Lake, Mich., Camping World SuperCenter.

(Feb. 18, 2016) — SmartPlug Systems has appointed Holm, Hicks, White & Associates to promote its RV electrical products in the Canadian market. The rep group covers British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, east to Thunder Bay.

(Feb. 18, 2016) — U-Haul Moving & Storage of West Hickory has added indoor, climate-controlled RV, boat and vehicle storage at 331 U.S. Hwy. 70 SW, site of the old shopping mall.

Escapees RV Club officials applauded members who contacted the legislators in South Dakota regarding a controversial bill to strip voting rights from full-time RVers who consider the state to be their home. The combined effort had a substantial impact on the outcome, said Advocacy Director Jim Koca in a press release, as South Dakota Senate Bill 164 […]

(Feb. 18, 2016) -- Boaters and campers in North Palm Beach, Fla., said they find a restriction limiting the size of the vehicles to no more than 10 feet high and 30 feet long particularly onerous. It doesn’t take into account that boats and RVs are larger today than they were in 1972 when the rule was made, they said.

(Feb. 18, 2016) -- Tower, Minn., city council voted, at their regular meeting on Feb. 8, to hold a public hearing to take input from residents regarding a proposed RV campground near Mill Point.