While the RV industry does take some heat for what some consider wastefulness, a small move in the overall scheme of things shows progress can be made.
Elkhart County, Indiana is probably the ‘mother lode’ of all RV manufacturers in the United States. Now it’s home to an interesting recycling effort. Picture your new […]

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has announced a new program for the 2008 camping season that will offer campers the opportunity to save on fuel costs by temporarily storing their RV at specified state parks or recreation areas in-between their camping stays. Storage of the camping units will be free, but is limited to […]

RVers will have fewer places to camp this summer in Colorado and Wyoming thanks to bugs. The U.S. Forest Service has closed 21 popular campgrounds in the two states because trees killed by hungry bark beetles could case the trees to topple onto RVs and tents. Warmer temperatures this year have weakened already aging lodgepole […]

A big-truck industry organization, the American Trucking Association (ATA) is calling on Congress to institute a national 65 mile-per-hour maximum speed limit. A seeming contradiction to what many RVers see in the form of a blur of a semi-truck passing them, the ATA says it’s one step that could help reduce the high price […]

Uncle Sam’s energy wizards have done what some may have said is a predictable backstep. We reported earlier that the ‘petrol prognosticators’ had gazed in their crystal barrels and pointed to an average figure for diesel of $3.62 for the year and a $3.36 guestimate for gasoline. Oh, that those figures might have […]

If you’ve ever camped in the Bureau of Land Management’s Clear Creek Management Area in the Diablo Mountains, you should check out a story on our sister blog, RV Boondocking News.  A major asbestos hazard has closed the site indefinitely, and health concerns have been raised.

RV refrigerator manufacturer, Norcold, has announced an extension of an earlier recall of RV refrigerators. Some time back Norcold began a recall campaign on refrigerators built in 1999. Now Norcold is voluntarily extending the recall to some of its reefers built prior to to early 2001. Norcold notified the National Highway Traffic […]