(Dec. 7, 2012) -- When money from a license plate renewal surcharge starts to come in, Illinois' DNR director told The State Journal-Register, crumbling roads, sagging roofs and aging sewage treatment plants at the parks will be the top priority.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- Western National Parks Association (WNPA), a nonprofit education partner of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) in California, will host its first annual holiday sale at King Gillette Ranch on Dec.15.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park announces that the CD, Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music, produced by the park's nonprofit educational partner, Great Smoky Mountains Association, has been nominated for a Grammy Award.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- A proposed seasonal RV park and water park in Ocean View, Del. didn’t get its needed zoning changes and conditional use request approved by the Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission, which voted 3-2 Thursday against the three land-use requests, reports The News Journal.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- More than five weeks after Superstorm Sandy, some people in the Tri-State Area are still suffering, writes CBS Local. The Berrin family of six is making do inside a borrowed camper on their front lawn in Babylon.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- The Tennessee Valley Authority is encouraging people to get outdoors with a new interactive map of recreational opportunities on undeveloped TVA public lands, TVA announced yesterday.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- Yielding to public pressure, the Douglas County Commission voted unanimously Tuesday not to permit RV parks to be built along the Columbia River south of East Wenatchee, writes The Wenatchee World Online.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- One building was heavily damaged by fire Thursday night at Camper Corral in Madison, reports WJTV.

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- Throughout our day we rely on electricity for nearly everything we do. From hot showers to hot coffee, and this brings up safe drinkable water. Of course there are things like gasoline,natural gas, oil,  telephones, laundry, cooking, refrigeration, heat and shelter. So, what would happen to our daily lives if all of these were cut off?

(Dec. 7, 2012) -- Flagstaff's streak of more than two years without a reported homicide was broken Thursday when a man was found dead inside a camper shell on top of a primer gray truck, reports the Arizona Daily Sun.