Winnebago Partners With National Park Foundation Winnebago Industries is partnering with the National Park Foundation in a multi-year effort to enhance the NPF’s Communities and Workforce Program. The program performs…
Category:
RV News & Notes
-
-
REV Unveils Luxury Motorhome Floor Plan At FMCA Convention While social gatherings in a sticks-and-bricks house often center around the kitchen, that can be a little challenging in an RV.…
-
National Park Week: April 17-25 With COVID-19 restricting openings and limiting travel, not everyone can travel to a national park at this time, so the National Park Service is looking…
-
Cruiser RV To Introduce New Travel Trailer Cruiser RV announced plans in 2020 to unveil the Hitch, an ultralight travel trailer “equipped with unique features for today’s adventurous camper,” according…
-
National Parks Set Fee-Free Days For 2021 January 18: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. April 17: First day of National Park Week August 4: One year anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act August…
-
Dometic Renews Care Camps Partnership Nature, John Muir once said, is a place that heals, and gives strength to the body and soul. Anyone who has ever pulled into a…
-
German RV Trade Show Draws 107,000 In 2019, a record-setting 268,000 people attended Caravan Salon Dusseldorf, which has been marketed as the world’s largest trade fair for RVs. For the…
-
Quartzsite RV Show To Proceed, With Precautions If all goes as planned, RVers will converge on the Arizona desert for the 2021 Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show, set for…
-
RV Tech Institute Creates Gary Bunzer Memorial Scholarship The RV Technical Institute (RVTI) is establishing the Gary Bunzer Memorial Scholarship in honor of the “RV Doctor,” who devoted much of…
-
Ill Youngsters Are Granted Wishes For RVs RV industry companies recently teamed up with Make-A-Wish to grant the wishes of two young children who can now go camping with their…
-
Gear, Gadgets, And Gifts Practical accessories and assorted goods designed to make life easier and more enjoyable for RVers. By John Johnston, Associate Editor RV Mat An RV patio mat…
-
Battle Born Joins Care Camps Effort Care Camps has a new partner, Battle Born Industries. The company, which makes lithium-ion batteries and energy storage products, donated $10,000 to the nonprofit…
-
RVers Are Encouraged To Follow Campground Etiquette As the threat from COVID-19 lessens, throngs of RVers are expected to fill campgrounds in national parks and elsewhere. That means it will…
-
RV Country Opens New Service Center RV Country has opened a new state-of-the-art service center in Fresno, California, to replace a facility destroyed in a 2018 blaze. The expanded service…
-
RV Industry Provides Assistance During Coronavirus Crisis As the number of coronavirus cases and deaths from COVID-19 rose sharply in the United States and Canada in late March 2020, the…
-
Winnebago Unveils Travel Trailer, Launches New Website Winnebago’s Hike travel trailer has made its debut. It can sleep three or four, depending on which of the five floor plans is…
-
Texas RV Dealer Collects Teddy Bears For Children An RV dealer with three locations in Texas, PPL Motor Homes, collected more than 450 teddy bears during its annual Cuddles for…
-
Outdoor Recreation Helps Drive U.S. Economy The outdoor recreation industry is growing faster than the U.S. economy as a whole, according to a federal report. Data released in September 2019…
-
National Parks Set Fee-Free Days For 2020 The National Park Service will waive entrance fees at all national parks on these days in 2020: January 20: Martin Luther King Jr.…
-
Students Tour RV-Industry Factories For Manufacturing Day RV industry manufacturers Spartan Motors Inc. and Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) were among companies that hosted students for events related to Manufacturing Day…
-
Keystone RV Marks Production Of 1 Millionth RV Keystone RV Company shipped its 1 millionth RV — a Montana 3761FL fifth-wheel — on August 29, 2019. The milestone was celebrated…
-
RV Resort Operator Starts Program To Save Honeybees RVC Outdoor Destinations has launched the BEECause program to help save declining populations of the honeybee, which is an important pollinator for…
-
Tents For Troops Founder Dies Charlie Curry, founder of the nonprofit Tents for Troops program and owner of Toutle River RV Resort in Castle Rock, Washington, died in June 2019…
-
Fantasy RV Tours Rally Donates To Make-A-Wish The Fantasy RV Tours 10th Reunion Rally, held in April 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee, raised $31,030 for Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee. The donations will…
-
Thor And KOA Join Forces On Trash Removal Thor Industries Inc. and Kampgrounds of America (KOA) have partnered on a program called Pick Up America. The campaign’s first initiative encourages…
-
Winnebago Partners With National Park Foundation Winnebago Industries in March 2019 announced a multiyear partnership with the National Park Foundation in support of Find Your Park. The public awareness campaign…
-
Thor’s Erwin Hymer Purchase Excludes North American Unit Thor Industries Inc. completed its acquisition of Erwin Hymer Group (EHG) on February 1, 2019. The deal created the world’s largest RV…
-
Ron Lee Was Integral Part Of Country Coach’s Success Ron Lee, who helped grow Country Coach into one of the top luxury motorhome manufacturers, died January 19, 2019. He was…
-
Eagle One Lands At RV/MH Hall Of Fame And Museum The owner of a 2006 Forest River Georgetown motorhome has donated the vehicle to the RV/MH Hall of Fame and…
-
Jayco Introduces Residential Showers In Fifth-Wheels Several of Jayco’s 2019 fifth-wheel models are equipped with an amenity that company officials say is a first for towable RVs — oversized, residential…
-
National Parks Set Fee-Free Days For 2019 The National Park Service will waive all entrance fees on these days in 2019: *January 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day *April 20:…
-
Beverly Gardner Made Mark In RV Publishing Beverly Gardner, whose long career as an RV industry publisher’s representative included selling advertising for FMCA’s magazine, died of ALS on October 23,…
-
Winnebago’s Micro Minnie Fifth-Wheel Debuts Winnebago Towables has introduced the Micro Minnie fifth-wheel. It will be available January 1, 2019, in five floor plans, each weighing less than 6,000 pounds.…
-
Adventure LP’S Limited-Edition Truck Camper Debuts Erdman Epp, the founder of Adventurer LP, died July 28, 2018, just as the Yakima, Washington-based company began a production run of its 50th…
-
Newmar Motorhome Featured At White House Made In America Event President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and other administration officials toured a 2019 Newmar London Aire diesel motorhome on…
-
Bowlus Road Chief LLC Offers Two Trailer Models This past February, a Bowlus Road Chief travel trailer appeared in a Super Bowl TV ad for website builder Squarespace. As a…
-
Furrion Offers Tours Of New Showroom Furrion, a maker of electronics, appliances, and energy products for RVs and other industries, has opened a new showroom at its Innovation Center and…
-
National Parks Price Increase Takes Effect The National Park Service has increased the entrance fees to most of the national parks that charge admission. Most parks planned to implement the…
-
Taxa Outdoors Unveils Mantis Trailer Taxa Outdoors Inc.’s newest travel trailer is the 18-foot Mantis. The RV sleeps up to four adults and weighs 2,800 pounds (unloaded). The trailer folds…
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Dometic Produces Record Number Of Refrigerators
In June 2017, Dometic’s Industrial Parkway facility in Elkhart, Indiana, made 18,069 refrigerators for use in RVs and other mobile applications, setting a new production record. It marked the second time in 2017 that Dometic broke the record for number of units produced in a month. The previous record, set in March 2017, was 17,481 units. Before that, the record was 16,544 refrigerators produced in March 2016.
-
-
-
-