Jeff Crider

George O’Leary and Paul Friesen’s parks are nearly 2,400 miles apart and they couldn’t be any more different. O’Leary owns and operates the 1,100-site Rincon Country West RV Resort and the 460-site site Rincon Country East RV Resort in Tucson, Ariz., which cater to snowbirds and retirees on fixed incomes. Friesen owns and operates the […]

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The Wisconsin Dells has positioned itself as “the Waterpark Capital of the World,” with marketing campaigns highlighting the fact the Wisconsin city has the largest concentration of indoor and outdoor waterparks on the planet. In 2018 alone, the city attracted four million visitors who spent $1.6 billion on everything from food and beverages to waterpark […]

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The 9th Annual Workamper News Rendezvous kicks off today (Oct. 21) and is set to feature seminars tailored to the needs of current and aspiring RV enthusiasts who want to work as they travel. The event runs through Oct. 25 and will take place at the Community Center in Heber Springs, Ark. The Rendezvous features […]

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Many RV dealers showcase their units at county fairs, but La Mesa RV has a presence at one of the most unusual festivals in the country: the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the largest hot air balloon event in the world. The annual event, launched in 1972, takes place in early to mid-October on a 360-acre […]

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Officials at Leisure Systems Inc. (LSI) hosted the organization’s largest symposium in the history of the Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts franchise network in early November, drawing 248 campground owners, operators and staff members, as well as 106 vendors. Woodall’s Campground Management, sister publication to RVBusiness, reported that the Milford, Ohio-based LSI franchises more than […]

Editor’s Note: The following story on Leisure Systems Inc.’s upcoming annual symposium, authored by Jeff Crider, appears on Woodall’s Campground Management, sister publication to RVBusiness. Milford, Ohio-based Leisure Systems, Inc. (LSI) is preparing for its annual symposium and trade show as the Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resort network experiences the strongest growth in the company’s […]

Editor’s Note: The following article by Jeff Crider appears in the Family Motor Coach Association’s (FMCA) magazine Family RVing. When Victor and Jessica King opened Lake George RV Park in Lake George, N.Y., in 1966, it was one of the most modern campgrounds in the United States. Each of its then 200-plus campsites had 30-amp electric […]

Texas Rep. Matt Krause listened to the concerns of campground owners and industry officials Sunday (April 22) about rocketing property taxes, early school start dates and the harmful reduction in state tourism marketing as the Texas Association of Campground Owners (TACO) kicked off its annual Spring Meeting and Tradeshow. The three-day meeting at the Lake […]

About 75 campground and RV park operators gathered at Pechanga Resort & Casino and Pechanga RV Resort in Temecula, Calif., Wednesday (Feb. 28) to learn how to better prepare themselves for disasters and to identify suspicious activities at their parks. The training sessions, all part of CalARVC’s Spring RV Park Day event, included briefings by […]

Nearly 100 attendees participated in CalARVC’s Software Education Day Tuesday (Feb. 27) at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, billed as the largest and most in-depth event of its kind to showcase the reservation and management tools available to the campground industry. Six of the nation’s top campground reservation and front desk management service providers spent the day […]