Jeff Crider

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 […]

Nearly 100 park operators from California, Arizona and California are gathering in Temecula, Calif., today (Feb. 27) to attend CalARVC’s Software Education Day. The daylong event, representing the largest software education event to date in the campground industry, is taking place at the Pechanga Resort & Casino. “We still have people signing and more could show […]

There are many legal strategies for dealing with Lemon Law disputes, but the best way to preempt such claims is to simply to keep your customers happy. “Happy customers don’t sue. Do what you can to keep the customer happy. Treat them well,” Amanda Heitz, an associate attorney with Minneapolis, Minn.-based Bowman and Brooke LLP, […]

Recreational vehicle dealers accounting for about 70% of California’s RV sales attended the California Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association’s (CalRVDA) annual meeting in late February to discuss the industry’s continuing surge as well as a potential ballot initiative to repeal controversial gas and vehicle taxes that took effect late last year under SB-1. The Feb. 22 […]

John Imler, a pioneer in California’s private campground and RV park business who helped shape state laws governing RV parks and wrote some of the most widely read books on campground design and campground management, passed away Dec. 5 in his Sacramento home surrounded by family members. He was 84. “Whether he was offering advice […]

Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resort operators from across the U.S. and Canada came together last week (Nov. 6-9) as they celebrated another year of record growth, as well as increased franchise industry and consumer recognition during the annual Leisure System’s Symposium. “We have a lot of good indicators going for us,” Jim Westover, vice president […]

For several years until the real estate market imploded in 2008, a number of RV parks in America’s hottest real estate markets disappeared as developers offered park owners prices they couldn’t refuse and converted their land into housing developments, shopping malls and industrial parks. Now the same thing is happening in British Columbia, which has […]

The Phoenix and Tucson areas are loaded with RV parks and resorts that cater to snowbirds with organized activities and special events to keep them entertained throughout the winter season. But venture out into some of the more remote areas of the Grand Canyon State and you’ll find people like 68-year-old Ted Werner of Connecticut, […]