Win $200 in Indiana Photo Contest

RVers who're trekking the Hoosier State, it's time to put up your best efforts: The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is looking for photos taken this month or next that epitomize the state park's recreational resources.

It doesn't matter if the activity is hiking, fishing, biking, hunting, enjoying the inns, attending a program or special event, or just relaxing by the campfire, as long as it's happening this month or next. The DNR is looking for photos that show that Indiana ’s properties are great for renewing your spirits.

Photos can be entered in one of two categories: age 12 and younger or 13 and older and subjects can include one or more people enjoying the outdoors at an Indiana state park or reservoir during October or November, 2007.

The winner in each of the two age categories will receive a $100 gift certificate from Indiana State Park inns that can be used for lodging, restaurant meals or gift shop purchases at any of the seven Indiana State Park inns. The winner also receives a $50 gift certificate from Dick’s Sporting Goods and a 2008 annual entrance pass for state properties.

For more information and rules, visit the state's website.

Photo courtesy Indiana DNR

Connecticut Leaf Peepers Can Win Prizes

RVers who love traveling "The Constitution State" of Connecticut, limber up your maps and binoculars: The official Connecticut Fall Foliage Giveaway is underway.

Connecticut tourism officials want you to come and visit the state this fall; those who do and who submit reports (via the internet) of their fall leaf peeping experiences are entered in a drawing. The prizes? Four Canon Power Shot digital cameras.

So if you're over in that 'neck of the woods,' it might be worth taking a short tour through the territory to check out the purported work of Jack Frost. Meantime, click this link to learn more about the contest. And be sure to check out the rules before you make a special trip--Floridians are banned from the contest. Go figure--maybe Connecticans are jealous of your orange juice.

Photo courtesy mdpNY on Flickr