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Seattle spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispose of unwanted RVs

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Towing and disposing of abandoned and broken down RVs costs the city of Seattle hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer money, which expenditures...

Music lovers flock to UtopiaFest music festival this weekend, Nov. 2-4

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Are you old enough to remember Woodstock? Have you been to any of the winter desert musical extravaganzas? If these music festivals bring back...

Law firm seeks investors who lost money in Camping World stock

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More problems crop up for Marcus Lemonis and Camping World as a law firm investigates securities issues. Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities...

Mobile mayor releases contradictory statement on RV City controversy

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Contradicting earlier statements, the mayor's office in Mobile, Alabama, came out strongly Monday denying reports that RV City, a Mardi Gras tradition, was closing...

Forest Service closes recreation facilities around Lake Tahoe for the season

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Fall is here, and winter comes early to Lake Tahoe, where several campgrounds, day-use areas, picnic areas, roads and beaches on National Forest lands...

Video: Corps of Engineers campgrounds among RVers’ favorites

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the largest federal provider of outdoor recreation with more than 90,000 campsites across the country at more...

Volunteers help bring life back to Northern CA state park

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The value of volunteers cannot be overstated, especially in the rejuvenation of Northern California's Sugarloaf Ridge State Park where volunteers lugged three 600- to...

Michigan’s popular Sleeping Bear Dunes new reservation system delayed

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If you've been looking forward to a time when you didn't have to sleep in your RV in a long line outside Sleeping Bear Dunes...

San Francisco’s street RV residents under scrutiny – again

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RVs showing their wear line the streets from the Mission to Bayview in San Francisco while officials weigh solutions to a new phase of...

RV fire near Bonner, Montana, caused by woman smoking

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A woman who reportedly fell asleep while smoking a cigarette was taken to the hospital after her RV caught fire, reported KXLH. Missoula Rural Fire...

Homeless Navy vet’s new tiny home runs afoul with county code

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A homeless Navy veteran's new tiny home built by volunteers that transformed a bare trailer chassis into a tidy framed house with a bedroom,...

Judge orders state legislator to vacate his RV he lives in

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A New Hampshire state legislator has been ordered by a judge to vacate the motorhome that he lives in on his property until he...

Texas State Parks closes five parks due to flooding

Bob Difley -
Texas-sized rains and some serious flooding has prompted officials to close five Central Texas State Parks as entry roads and trails remain under water. The...

Pleasure-Way unveils lithium-powered class B motorhome

Bob Difley -
New Atlas takes a look at an all-new Class B motorhome made in North America rather in Europe, where many of the electric innovations...

Yellowstone on pace to attract more than 4 million visitors again

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The good news is that Yellowstone NP will not limit visitation next year, so you should be able to enter. The bad news is...

Ex-Pilot Flying J president heads to the slammer

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By Chuck Woodbury EDITOR Former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood is set to begin serving a 12 1/2 year sentence for cheating trucking customers out of...

Camper van goes up in flames outside a Tim Hortons in Ontario

Bob Difley -
A fire call came into the Kincardine Fire Department at roughly 11 a.m. Friday and when firefighters arrived at the Tim Hortons restaurant at...

Nebraska Parks to raise camping fees as sites cater to luxury RVs

Bob Difley -
Larger RV owners requesting higher-end campsites with more amenities is cited as the reason for Nebraska parks to increase fees in an attempt to...

Firefighters can’t save burning motorhome on Washington highway

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Firefighters in Orondo, Washington, responded to what they believed to be a car fire on Highway 87 about 10 miles north of Orondo around...

Residents fed up with frequent flooding of their mobile home & RV park

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Who will be responsible when historic rains continuously flood your RV park and residents fear for their property? With all the recent rainfall, people...

It’s almost time for Quartzsite and the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous

Bob Difley -
Bob Wells is not your typical RVer. But actually, that depends on who you ask. To the free-range nomads that attend his Rubber Tramp...

RV shipments nosedive in September following August decline

Chuck Woodbury -
Is the RV sales boom about to bust? For the second straight month, shipments from RV manufacturers declined over the previous year. The RV Industry...

Owner vs. town code: Is it a tiny house or a “custom travel trailer”?

Bob Difley -
Tiny homes are gaining popularity but are also challenging local building codes and bringing owners and officials into squabbles such as this one in...

Free shuttle service into and within Bryce Canyon NP announced

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It is not always easy to visit some of our national parks in an RV where parking is often limited and traffic is heavy....

Seattle councilman proposes RV lots for homeless RV dwellers

Bob Difley -
Seattle City Councilman Mike O’Brien produced draft legislation that would loosen parking enforcement for homeless people living in vehicles, spreading dozens of homeless RV...

RV and trailer sales expected to reach record highs

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RV manufacturers are recognizing the impact younger buyers are having on RV sales, especially small towables, illustrating that bigger isn't always better. This has...

Camp Verde council eyes proposal for tiny home community

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Tiny home communities continue to pop up, like this proposal before the Camp Verde, AZ, Town Council for a new tiny home agri-tourism community. In August...

Florida State Parks in recovery mode. How to help

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By Eric Draper  Director, Florida State Parks On behalf of Florida State Parks, our hearts go out to everyone affected by Hurricane Michael. I know many...

Motorhome selling prices at auction rise in Sept. over previous month

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Black Book reported that the average selling price of motorized units at auction last month increased by nearly 9%, representing the third highest mark...

Canada’s Jasper National Park closures until 2020 for upgrading

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East Gate, Jasper NP, Canada (CBC) You might want to postpone visiting Canada's Jasper National Park until May of 2020, when a "major facelift" that...

Huge tailgate party at Jacksonville’s RV City preps for Georgia-Florida rivalry

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You've all heard how serious the Southeast takes their college football. One of the most intense rivalries is the Georgia-Florida game this Saturday, which...

Stakeout at Bodega Bay campground results in high-speed chase, crash

Bob Difley -
Sonoma County Sheriff’s deputies on a stakeout hoping to catch a thief stealing generators from RVs at a campground in Bodega Bay, CA, ended...

Homeless veteran to move into new, tiny home in a former campground

Bob Difley -
Pastor Donnie Davis' dream is coming true, that on the 277 acres of land beyond the 65-acre lake in Franklinville, New Jersey, he can...

Missouri RVer leads deputies on high-speed chase

Bob Difley -
A Springfield, Missouri, man tried to run someone over in a mobile home park with his RV and then led deputies on a high-speed...

Remote control pop-up camper grows into a breezy cabana

Bob Difley -
On the road, the iCamp trailer from Dutch company Udo Camp rides as a flat trailer and looks like the rear-end of a sporty...

Class action lawsuit filed against Camping World

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The Chicago law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of Camping World Holdings, Inc....

RVing today is a far cry from what it was a decade or two ago

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By Chuck Woodbury RVTRAVEL.COM What does this scene have to do with RVing? At first glance, you may say nothing. But I think it does, or...

KOA: Where are the RVs?

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By Chuck Woodbury I found the news segment below by a San Diego TV station interesting. In two minutes, it says something significant about how...

Dog scratches its way through RV door

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What can we learn from these photos? That some dogs will do just about anything to get out of an RV if left alone?...

RV Industry president explains effort to learn RVer buyer habits

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Note from RV Travel editor Chuck Woodbury The following message from RV Industry Association (RVIA) President Frank Hugelmeyer was published in the RV Industry Association newsletter...

Near disaster as bus crosses bridge with weight limits

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Here's a reminder to pay attention to bridges with weight restrictions that your RV may exceed. In this case, the result could have been...

Proper handling of firewood can help curb bark beetle infestations

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You've seen pictures of – and possibly even seen in person – the vast swaths of dead forest in the West (photo left) as...

RVers lament being upside down with their loans

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Here's why a wise person should never finance an RV for more than five or six years. And try to put at least a...

Cougar sightings spiked in the Pacific Northwest this summer

Bob Difley -
If you live or travel in the Pacific Northwest you may have noticed that cougars have been in the news this summer. A deadly...

It’s a mad, mad, out-of-control RV world

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By Chuck Woodbury I received this news release today from Thor. In this one release is proof positive that recreation vehicles have branched off from...

San Francisco supervisors struggle with what to do with homeless RVers

Bob Difley -
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) is alive in San Francisco as supervisors squabble about what to do with homeless RV dwellers, providing few...

KOA president to appear today on Facebook Live RV program

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The Facebook Live program RVing in New England will welcome Toby O’Rourke, president of Kampgrounds of America, to its online talk show today (Wednesday,...

Hubby’s RV driving habits frighten his wife

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By Chuck Woodbury We came across this posting on the Facebook Group, Full Time RVing. I don't know about you, but I have known some...

I live in an RV park, which is really a mobile home park

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By Chuck Woodbury It's 2 p.m. A motorhome just pulled in my RV park and stopped literally inches away from our car. Gail was afraid...

Stupid RV workmanship for Sept. 8, 2018

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Here, from the Facebook group RV Horror Stories, are some examples sent by group members of crummy RV workmanship. Click any of the photos to...
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