Month: April 2016

(April 25, 2016) -- French builder La Tiny House is one of the European tiny house pioneers, having started a couple of years ago and completing about 15 small dwellings since.

Time and again, the industry talks about the Millennials – people from their late teens to their early ‘30s with their authentically different views of our culture, products and society. They, like countless generations before them, audaciously challenge conventional wisdom on many levels as the industry works to develop products and parks to suit their intrinsic […]

When Fran Roberts was 19, he asked his parents for $600 start-up money to buy and sell fold-out campers — they laughed at him, and told him to go to the bank. “I asked the bankers in the boardroom for $600. They were only going to give me $400, but an older gentleman in the […]

(April 25, 2016) -- Los Padres National Forest officials are seeking proposals for concession campground and recreation site Special Use Permits to provide public service in the operation and maintenance of government-owned recreation facilities in Los Padres National Forest in California.

(April 25, 2016) -- California's East Bay Regional Park District officials announced on Thursday that smoking is banned in the great outdoors of 65 East Bay regional parks.

(April 25, 2016) -- Six decades after he asked for a bank loan, Fran Roberts, now retired, laughs as he tells that story inside the sales center of his son Frank's 15-acre recreational vehicle compound, the Long View RV Superstore in Windsor Locks, Conn.

(April 25, 2016) -- More than 100 RVs, trailers, motor homes, fifth wheels and campers are on display at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre and the South Okanagan Events Centre.

(April 25, 2016) -- Clent Hills Camping and Caravanning Club Site in the Midlands in England celebrates 80 years of camping in 2016, and will mark this milestone on May 29 with a special on-site birthday party.

(April 25, 2016) -- New Zealand councils are cautiously welcoming the government's announcement it'll stump up with cash to cover the cost of freedom campers.

Winnebago Industries Inc. announced the promotion of Bob Bloomingdale to the position of chassis/electrical engineering manager. According to a press release, Bloomingdale is responsible for managing electrical and chassis design and bill of material functions for the company’s motorized products as well as oversight of the company’s test lab facilities. Bloomingdale has 27 years of […]