Month: May 2017

(May 9, 2017) -- Give mom a break this Mother’s Day with a buffet at a Kentucky State Park. The Kentucky State Parks will be offering a Mother’s Day buffet May 14 at its resort parks.

(May 9, 2017) -- New Illinois tourism figures show about 110 million tourists from around the country visited the state last year, a more than 1 million increase compared to 2015.

(May 9, 2017) -- Cavitt’s Creek Park in Tazewell County continues on its path to be included in the Virginia State Park system. “We are still working in that direction,” said David Woodard, the county’s director of tourism. “That is the plan.”

(May 9, 2017) -- Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park, which opened in November 2016, was recognized this week by the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (SORP).

(May 9, 2017) -- Backeberg says Bissett had been camping and fishing in the area with family and friends when a severe thunderstorm caught them off guard. She was reportedly running back to camp when a tree broke, striking her on the head. She died on the way to the hospital.

(May 9, 2017) -- Indiana’s ranking makes it the only Midwestern state in the publication’s top five. Among neighboring states, Ohio ranked No. 11, Kentucky ranked No. 22, Michigan ranked No. 36 and Illinois ranked No. 48.

(May 9, 2017) -- Residents of a Port Aransas RV Park say they are fed up with sand blowing into the complex and damaging their property. That sand is coming from a construction project next door.

(May 9, 2017) -- Pelican Bay RV and Cabin Resort is the new name of an existing five-year-old RV park with cabins with approximately 1000′ of lake frontage on a large and very popular East Texas Lake called Lake Fork which is due East of Dallas.

(May 9, 2017) -- Apollo Tourism and Leisure will buy recreation vehicle businesses in Canada and Australia in a $43.6 million deal that underscores growing demand for road holidays, the Courier Mail reported.

(May 9, 2017) -- Saginaw Mobile Home and RV Park near Cottage Grove is under new management and major improvements are on the way.