Andy Zipser

Andy Zipser
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The great outdoors is not a “personal plaything”

Another month, another marketing opportunity for the people trying to sell you stuff, another disappointment to Mother Nature. In this case, the stuff is...

RV parks and campgrounds are already booked solid for summer

If you’ve been having a hard time finding a place to park your RV, it’s not your imagination. In what may be the first...

Big-time magazine mangles the RV park story, misses the mark

OPINION There was a time when, for all its excesses—and there were many!—Forbes magazine at least could be counted on for insightful reportage on American...

What’s the difference between legitimate camping and simple vagrancy or homelessness?

Just in time for the release of KOA’s eighth annual report about the state of camping in North America (read more about that here), historian...

Opinion: Should RV park managers be certified?

The blurred distinction between mobile home parks and RV parks is growing even more fuzzy in California, where a Senate bill that would require...

Study offers meaningful picture of what it’s like to camp today

The Dyrt, a rapidly growing website and mobile app, is possibly the country’s most comprehensive platform for the camping public—which means, in turn, that...

The bogus nature of RV park models

By Andy Zipser A legal squabble in Currituck County, North Carolina, is exposing one of the camping industry’s biggest con jobs: the persistent claim that...

Why a campground on the cheap is symptomatic of trouble on the Front Range

A story in last week’s RV Travel newsletter about half-a-dozen proposals to build RV campgrounds touched on several themes more or less common to...

Lava inspires new retardant that could limit RV fires

What do you get when you combine lightweight wood, plastic laminates, petrochemical solvents and a whole lot of ethyl-this and poly-that to build a...

The winter of their discontent: Many proposed RV parks facing stiff public opposition

Sub-freezing temperatures may dissuade many RVers from thinking about camping, but RV parks and campgrounds have been top-of-mind in half-a-dozen municipalities east of the...

Boondocking or boondoggle? Dispersed camping simply disperses our messes

By Andy Zipser Back in the day, when my legs had considerably more spring in them and I could backpack all day long, I would...

Ghost Town shootout puts RV campgrounds in the crosshairs

Through the latter part of the 20th century, one of the biggest tourist attractions in western North Carolina was Ghost Town in the Sky,...