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Forest River recalls trailers: Awning arm could detach

Chuck Woodbury -
Forest River is recalling 3,606 model year 2018-2019 Cherokee Alpha Wolf and 2019 Cherokee Arctic Wolf travel trailers. The awnings may have been mounted...

RV and RV-related recalls for October 2018

RV Staff -
Here is our monthly summary of RV recalls for October 2018 and related equipment we feel are of interest to our readers. This information...

Grand Design recalls trailers: Mini-breaker issue could cause fire

Chuck Woodbury -
Grand Design RV is recalling certain 2019 Grand Design Reflection travel trailers, models 285BHTS, 287RLTS and 297RSTS. The wires to the 50-amp mini-breaker may...

Some Forest River, Coachmen motorhomes recalled

Chuck Woodbury -
Forest River, Inc. (Forest River) is recalling certain 2017 Coachmen Cross Country, 2017-2019 Coachmen Sportscoach and Forest River Berkshire and Legacy and 2017-2018 Forest...

Airstream recalls motorhomes: screen door fire issue

Chuck Woodbury -
Airstream is recalling certain 2018-2019 Airstream Atlas motorhomes. In the event of a fire, the accordion screen door screen material may burn quicker than...

Keystone recalls towables for axle issue

Chuck Woodbury -
Keystone RV Company is recalling certain 2019 Dutchmen Aerolite and Atlas, Keystone Bullet, Laredo, Cougar, Hideout, Passport and Springdale, and Crossroads Sunset fifth wheels...

Hymer recalls Roadtreks for potential battery acid spill

Chuck Woodbury -
Erwin Hymer Group North America, Inc. is recalling certain 2018-2019 Hymer Aktiv and Aktiv 2.0, Carado Axion and Banff and Roadtrek Simplicity, Simplicity SRT,...

Winnebago recalls trailers: Missing LP clamp could cause fire

Chuck Woodbury -
Winnebago is recalling certain 2017-2019 Winnebago Minnie Drop travel trailers. The liquid propane (LP) gas supply line may be missing p-clamps, allowing the supply...

Jayco recalls trailers: Turn signal, brake lights wired wrong

Chuck Woodbury -
Jayco is recalling certain 2019 Jayco Jay Flight travel trailers. The turn signal and brake lights were wired incorrectly causing the lights to work...

KZRV recalls trailers: LP manifold could leak, cause fire

Chuck Woodbury -
KZRV is recalling certain 2017-2019 KZRV Sonic 190VRB travel trailers. The liquid propane (LP) manifold may be located close to the axle tube, which...

Yellowstone National Park visitors increased 13% in September

Bob Difley -
If you are considering an RV vacation to Yellowstone National Park next summer you may want to plan ahead for unintended and unforeseen delays...

Lazydays RV buys Tennessee RV Supercenter in Knoxville

Bob Difley -
Lazydays RV today announced another purchase of an RV dealership expanding their reach in the Southeast, according to Cision PR Newswire. Lazydays Holdings, Inc. announced...

New York state officials’ questionnaire invites feedback on black bears

Bob Difley -
In an attempt to establish appropriate population levels for black bears throughout New York state, environmental officials are conducting a bear survey, reports the...

Body of fourth person missing from flooded Texas campground recovered

Bob Difley -
The body of the fourth missing person, an Alabama woman, who was washed away when the Llano River flooded the Junction City Campground in...

300 pounds of pot found in motorhome after traffic stop

Bob Difley -
A Taliaferro County, Georgia, deputy pulled over a couple driving a motorhome and found 300 pounds of marijuana in a secret compartment under the...

Brake failure causes RV to roll over in South Dakota

Bob Difley -
Brake failure appears to be the cause of an accident involving an RV and SUV in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Saturday. Emergency departments...

Fire possibly started by homeless RVers causes evacuation of Lowe’s store

Bob Difley -
Homeless people living in an RV may have been the cause of a fire that damaged part of a Lowe's store in San Francisco,...

Forest River recalls trailers for possible brake failure

Chuck Woodbury -
Forest River is recalling more than 1,700 model year 2019 Forest River Flagstaff and Rockwood travel trailers. The brake mounting flanges on the torsion...

Rock Island campground taken over by 70 witches

Bob Difley -
Though Halloween is still a few days off, it was not too early for witches to take over the Rock Island Illinois KOA campground...

Man sought when firearms, body armor, found in fifth wheel trailer

Bob Difley -
After discovering weapons, body armor and silencers in a fifth wheel trailer upon responding to a disturbance Thursday night in the 200 block of...

Travel trailers to become temporary homes to hurricane victims

Bob Difley -
Dozens of new Sportsmen, Wilderness and Prowler travel trailers line an old auxiliary runway at the North Carolina Global TransPark waiting to be moved...

Fulltime RVer rescued from flash-flooded lake bed campsite

Bob Difley -
A fulltime RVer boondocking in a dry lake bed was caught off guard when rains pounded down heavier than predicted and stranded him in...

Pa. State Parks adding free EV and hybrid charging stations

Bob Difley -
Pennsylvania State Parks will soon offer free charging stations for electric and hybrid vehicles as part of an effort by the Department of Conservation...

Epic floods wash over Texas, scrambling rescue personnel

Bob Difley -
Heavy rains and flooding continue to plague Texas as officials scramble to rescue campers and motorists, reports KXXV. Campers at the Colorado Bend State...

RVers lend their experience to help those in need of housing

Bob Difley -
Volunteering is something RVers do, and for the past two weeks, Bob Hammer and Tony Laird have been at the site of Habitat for...

Classic cars and motorhome destroyed in Nebraska fire

Bob Difley -
A large fire in Lancaster County, Nebraska, destroyed a motorhome and $165,000 worth of classic cars on Friday morning, reported 1011 Now. The Lancaster County...

Update: West Seattle Health Club furious with city’s handling of crash

Bob Difley -
The 15-passenger van (original story called it an "RV") that crashed into the West Seattle Health Club on Wednesday was the second such crash,...

RV dives into West Seattle fitness club pool

Bob Difley -
It is not known whether there were any lap swimmers or water exercise classes in session at 1:00 a.m. Wednesday morning when an RV...

NOAA predicts a warm, wet El Nino-fueled winter

Bob Difley -
If you're thinking of some winter camping it's almost time to dig out your foul weather gear and Wellingtons (but you can leave your...

“The RVers” new PBS TV series coming in 2019

Bob Difley -
PBS will launch a new television series in 2019 called "The RVers" and produced by FourPoints Television that will feature RV celebrity hosts taking...

National Parks announces road closures for winter and construction

Bob Difley -
Many RVers enjoy fall camping in our national parks now that kids are back in school and the parks and campgrounds are quieter and...

“Bend streets are not your home” spray-painted on RV

Bob Difley -
Wendy Erickson and her son, Ben, live in a Class C motorhome and had parked it on Watt Way behind Costco in Bend, Oregon....

With threat of wildfires, utilities cut power to CA businesses and residences

Bob Difley -
Though remaining on guard Tuesday, the gusty winds that raised the threat of wildfires decreased in strength and become less widespread in California a...

Oregon city to allow regulated car camping in specified parking lots

Bob Difley -
The Beaverton City Council moves a step closer to regulated overnight "car" camping in designated parking lots with sanitation and trash disposal facilities,...

Chausson creates “Swiss Army knife” motorhome

Bob Difley -
France's Chausson converts the Ford Transit-based Flash 634 into the Swiss Army knife of motorhomes for the absolute most livability out of its small...

Largest U.S. retriever competition fills Oregon campgrounds

Bob Difley -
If you planned on camping in Oregon's Umpqua Valley or anywhere near Roseburg this week it is unlikely you will be able to find...

Complaints prompt city council to change occupied RV ordinance

Bob Difley -
Complaints from Priest River, Idaho, residents at the October 1 city council meeting again raised the issue of people living in RVs fulltime within...

Mountain lion cub found inside El Dorado County business

Bob Difley -
Mountain lion sightings in California aren’t too unusual unless, of course, it’s a mountain lion that’s wandered into a building. That's exactly what happened...

Keystone recalls 5,236 trailers: Electric brakes may fail

Chuck Woodbury -
Keystone RV is recalling 5,236 model year 2016-2019 Keystone Impact and Fuzion travel trailers. The wiring for the electric brakes may contact the tires...

Newmar recalls motorhomes: Brake pedal may stick

Chuck Woodbury -
Newmar Corporation is recalling certain 2019 Newmar Dutch Star motorhomes. The brake pedal assembly may catch on the dash, preventing the brake pedal from...

Truck pulling travel trailer overturns in collision with truck

Bob Difley -
Debris littered the highway after a truck pulling a trailer struck a Ryder truck and overturned on Route 101 in Raymond, NH, Monday afternoon,...

What you need to know about smoking pot in Canadian campgrounds

Bob Difley -
October 17th is tomorrow. It's the day that cannabis (pot, weed, Mary Jane, etc.) becomes legal in laid-back Canada. And as usual with any...

Watch for increased bear activity on Blue Ridge Parkway, warns NPS

Bob Difley -
The National Park Service extended warnings of increased bear activity on Blue Ridge Parkway and campgrounds through the remainder of the fall season. Visitors...

Man selling firewood in campground shoots customer

Bob Difley -
A man who went to a Decatur County, Tennessee, campground to sell firewood shot and killed his customer on Sunday evening. Investigators have arrested...

No Halloween plans yet? Try this haunted campground

Bob Difley -
If you happen to find yourself in Central Texas around the end of October you might want to mosey over to the tiny town of Glen...

Police recover trailer stolen from Carr Fire evacuees. Culprit in slammer.

Bob Difley -
Investigators recovered a travel trailer and other items from a trailer that was stolen from a family fleeing the devastating Carr Fire in Northern...

Joshua Tree NP closures announced due to heavy rains and flooding

Bob Difley -
Snowbirds are on the move to the deserts of Southern California and Arizona, but this year's weird weather has already produced dangerous flash floods...

High bear activity forces closure of part of Big Bend National Park

Bob Difley -
Big Bend National Park is a popular winter snowbird location along the Rio Grande River in Texas, but authorities have been forced to close the popular...

Traveling nurses in RVs fill health industry demands

Bob Difley -
The demand for nurses is exceeding the supply, and millennials are hitting the open road in today's "gig" economy and becoming at least a...

Thief of RV’s contents chased by owner to homeless RV camp

Bob Difley -
On Oct. 4, the day before Shawn Telford and his son were scheduled to depart on a weekend camping trip to Sol Duc Hot...
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