Month: July 2016

(July 4, 2016) -- The state Department of Environmental Conservation has released an updated management plan for the Kenneth Wilson Campground off Wittenberg Road in Woodstock, N.Y.

(July 4, 2016) -- The Department of Environmental Conservation has released an updated management plan for the Kenneth Wilson Campground in Mount Tremper, a two-hour drive north of New York City.

(July 4, 2016) -- New is a Department of Natural Resources requirement that all sites statewide be reserved by campers before they get to the park gate.

(July 4, 2016) -- Kaiti Beach, in Gisborne, New Zealand, could be opened up to freedom campers under new proposals intended to help the region cope with increasing numbers of campers.

(July 4, 2016) -- At about 12:30 p.m., emergency personnel were called to Lake Minatare, Neb., after a report of a tree falling and trapping people underneath it, as they sat at a picnic area near the south gate entrance.

(July 4, 2016) -- "This is more like 'glamping', it is a very social campground," said owner Sylvia Davids, "So many of our guests love the fact their kids put down their phones, ride bikes, throw frisbees, like kids used to do in the olden days."

(July 4, 2016) -- Lots of happy campers filled Cumberland Bay State Park in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Staff said there are a total of 157 campsites and all of them are full this weekend.

(July 4, 2016) -- It becomes a game of getting all the stuff at the cost of everyone else. It is about success only at the cost of others' failures. They will cut whatever can be cut, and give up the chase on anything that is too small all in the name of growing their bottom line.

(July 4, 2016) -- A little more than two weeks after a sudden microburst ripped through Mistletoe State Park in Columbia County, Ga., campers are back out there for the holiday weekend.

(July 4, 2016) -- Greenville leaders have big plans for the future. One of them involves bringing more people to the city and having them utilize open land.