Win a Week’s Stay at a Jellystone Park Camp-Resort in the New Winnebago Brave

Winnebago, Jellystone Parks, and RVTrader.com partner to offer free summer vacation packages

             As part of the exciting new “Brave the Summer with Yogi Bear!” promotion, families across the U.S. will have four different chances to win a 7-day, 6-night vacation at the Jellystone Park of their choice in a 2015 Winnebago Brave.

The Brave/Tribute Class A motorhome was recently featured as the  “RVBusiness 2015 RV of the Year.” The 32-foot unit features bold retro styling, a powered StudioLoft bed, and powered patio awning. Winners will receive the exclusive opportunity to stay for a week in the Brave unit at their favorite Jellystone Park, where they can enjoy amenities like swimming pools, mini-golf, arcades, and dozens of family-friendly activities. The Brave will be delivered to the chosen Jellystone Park where the lucky winners can begin their summer vacation.

            The promotion, running from May 20 to August 20, is made possible through a partnership between Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts, Winnebago Industries and RVTrader.com. “We wanted to not only create awareness of our brands but promote the camping lifestyle. Camping is an affordable way for families to travel and have fun together,” stated Michele Wisher, director of marketing for Jellystone Parks.

            “We hope this promotion encourages people to learn more about the camping and RV lifestyle,” commented Christine Knapp, partnership & affiliate marketing manager for RVTrader.com.

In addition to the summer vacation grand prizes, ten weekly giveaways will be awarded to randomly selected registrants. The winners will each receive an array of prizes, including a Jellystone Park beach towel and bag, a Winnebago key chain and tumbler, and an RVTrader.com cooler, valued at $70.

“Winnebago is thrilled to partner with Jellystone Parks and RVTrader.com for this exciting promotion,” said Kelli Harms, marketing and PR manager for Winnebago.  “This is a great opportunity to enjoy the outdoors in a Winnebago Brave at a family-friendly Jellystone Parks campground.” 

A grand prize winner will be randomly drawn on the last Friday of each month during the contest, including June 26, July 31 and two winners on August 31. Winners will have one year to redeem their camping vacation, subject to park availability.

To participate in the “Brave the Summer with Yogi Bear!” promotion, simply visit www.BravetheSummer.com and fill out the online entry form. Rules apply.

About Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park™ Camp-Resorts

Launched in 1969, the Jellystone Park system is the second largest chain of campgrounds in the United States, boasting over 80 campgrounds with more than 17,000 campsites and vacation rentals in 32 states and three Canadian provinces. Its Camp-Resorts are among the best campgrounds in the industry with a quality reputation for being fun, friendly, clean and service-oriented parks.  Additionally, each Jellystone Park is themed with Yogi Bear elements, providing instant recognition and consumer appeal.  It is truly a place “Where You Camp With Friends.”®Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park Camp-Resorts are franchised through Leisure Systems, Inc. (LSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Park River Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit www.campjellystone.com.

About RV Trader

RVTrader.com is one of the largest online classifieds sites for buying and selling RVs with more than 130,000 units for sale. RVTrader.com is a division of Dominion Enterprises, a leading marketing services and publishing company serving the automotive, recreational and commercial vehicle, real estate, apartment rental, parenting, and travel industries. Headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, with 3,300 employees in the United States, Canada, England, Spain and Italy, the company provides a comprehensive suite of technology-based marketing solutions, and more than 45 market leading websites. Millions of For Rent® and HotelCoupons.com® publications are distributed across the U.S. each year. For more information, visit DominionEnterprises.com.

About Winnebago Industries

Winnebago Industries, Inc., “The Most Recognized Name in Motorhomes®”, is a leading U.S. manufacturer of recreation vehicles, which are used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. The company builds quality motor homes, travel trailers, fifth wheel products, and transit buses. Winnebago Industries has received the Quality Circle Award from the Recreation Vehicle Dealers Association every year since 1996. The company’s common stock is listed on the New York and Chicago Stock Exchanges and traded under the symbol WGO. Options for the company’s common stock are traded on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. For access to Winnebago Industries’ investor relations material or to add your name to an automatic email list for company news releases, visit http://investor.wgo.net.        

NuVision Offers RV Homes in ‘Great Outdoors’

NuVision Builders is now offering luxury homes for RV owners within The Great Outdoors Nature & RV in Titusville, Fla.

According to a company announcement, The Great Outdoors Nature & RV community offers RV owners an “unspoiled tropical neighborhood and world-class RV resort.”

The RV lifestyle options available at The Great Outdoors include purchasing a luxury, custom-built RV home designed specifically for RV owners with a secure garage offering direct access into the residence.

The Great Outdoors Nature & RV resort is 2,800 acres filled with natural vegetation and wildlife. RV owners enjoy a relaxed lifestyle in close proximity to egret, deer, and quail harmoniously co-existing in the RV resort community.

The Great Outdoors also houses an onsite 18-hole, Ron Garl championship golf course design traversing through woodland and wildlife habitat. Local residents can enjoy sport fishing for large-mouth bass, and other species stocked in the resort’s lakes and ponds in the RV resort community. The Great Outdoors Nature & RV Resort also offers nature walking trails, heated pools and a health club.

To learn more about NuVision Builders custom built RV homes visit the NuVision Builders’ website.

This article originally appeared on RVBusiness.com.

7 Great Tips for RVing with Pets

RVing with pets can be a wonderful experience for you and your beloved furry friends. Here are seven tips to keep in mind when RVing with your pet.

1. Mind the Paperwork

Bring your pet’s health certificate and vaccination records, since many RV parks require you to have them with you in order to enter the grounds. You may also need to contact RV parks that you plan to stay at to make sure they accept your specific kind of pet.

2. Make a List

The essentials like food and water are a no-brainer, of course, but be sure to write down absolutely everything you need for your furry friend, including dishes, leashes, a litter box for your cat, waste bags, treats and toys, exercise pen, cages, a brush and a crate, if needed. Don’t forget medications if your pet takes any.

3. Call Ahead

Get in touch with the RV parks and campgrounds you plan to stop at. Make sure they allow pets, and also ask if they have any rules or regulations regarding pets at their facility. You will also need to call and see if the RV park or campground allows pets such as birds, bunnies and guinea pigs, or if they only let dogs and cats on the grounds.

4. Stay up to Date

Make sure your pet’s vaccinations and shots are up-to-date, with the records to prove it. This will avoid paperwork hangups, but it’s also important in order to keep your animal companion safe from disease as you travel through new areas.

5. Mark Your Pet

 If you haven’t already done so, take the time to put your cell phone number on your pet’s ID tags. You still want your home address and landline phone number on the tags, but that won’t be of much help if your pet cockatoo flies away from the RV while you’re still traveling. This will ensure that good samaritans can contact you in such a case.

6. Protect Your Pets from Creepy Crawlies

Bring along flea and tick spray, or make sure your pets are already treated before leaving on the RV trip. Even pets like hamsters, guinea pigs, bunnies and ferrets can pick up fleas and ticks, especially in the great outdoors, so ask your vet about treatment for your particular furry family member.

7. Be a Good Citizen

Remember to pick up after your pets in all locations. This is not only polite and courteous, but it also encourages RV parks and campgrounds to keep allowing pets. If you have a non-traditional pet like hamsters, ferrets or birds, call the park or campground beforehand and see how they handle waste removal.

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RV Trader and Leisure Systems, Inc. Partner to Bring Special Offer to Club Yogi Rewards Members

Club Yogi Rewards members are eligible for a new perk this year! Rewards members who are selling an RV will now receive a free two-week listing on RV Trader.com, one of the nation’s premier online RV marketplaces.

In a partnership between Leisure Systems Inc. and RV Trader, Club Yogi Rewards Standard Tier members who take advantage of this special offer can post a basic listing on RV Trader.com for two weeks (a value of nearly $20). The free ad lets Club Yogi Rewards members post up to four photos along with information about their RV. Sellers who post listings on the website can also choose from a variety of other options to better showcase their RV to potential buyers.

Club Yogi Rewards members may place their ads on RV Trader by logging into their account on jellystonerewards.com and visiting the partner page to obtain the special code. The promotion is available throughout 2015.

With more than 120,000 recreational vehicles for sale across the country and more than 2.5 million interested shoppers viewing its website monthly, RVTrader.com helps connect thousands of sellers with RV buyers every day.

Park Model Trailers Give RVing Families Extra Room at Campgrounds

 Photo Credit: KOA

When families hit the road in their RV, the kids, grandkids, and grandparents are often along for the ride. While RVs are roomier than ever, even the most spacious class-A can seem tiny when trying to find the sleeping space for every member of an extended family.

MSNBC reports that Kampgrounds of America and other RV parks offer park model trailers or “Kamping Lodges” as KOA calls them. Park model trailers are built by RV manufacturers and feature electricity, plumbing, and decks.

Photo Credit: KOA

According to the story, park model trailers offer extra sleeping space for traveling families during family reunions and other group events. If you want to try a park model trailer on you next RV trip, you better book one soon. The story reports they are in high demand.

Source: MSNBC

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Yuma has a great season thanks to baby boomer RVers and Canadians

YumaSun.com reports that seasonal visitors to Yuma, Arizona reflect a changing RV market.

Recreational vehicle park managers had a good season driven by younger RVers, many from the first wave of retiring baby boomers.

Visitors from Canada arrived in larger numbers thanks to stronger Canadian currency offering more purchasing power.

The new generation of RVers are looking for more upscale RV parks, equipped with Internet access, putting greens, on-site spas, and fitness trainers.

Source: YumaSun.com

New RV park is designed to be Earth friendly

A new RV park in Tehama County, California does more than get RVers close to nature, it will strive to protect the environment.

RedbluffDailyNews.com reports on the 174-site Durango RV Resort that opens this May.

The “green” RV park is designed to conserve water and heat, use composting and recycling to dispose of waste, with buildings designed to conserve energy. Even the pool will use biodegradable chemicals.

Source: RedBluffDailyNews.com

KOA’s Come Camp & Care With Us Weekend 2008

Kampgrounds of America recently announced the Come Camp and Care With Us Weekend to be held May 9-10, 2008. A list of participating camp grounds can be found on the KOA site.

According to Kampgrounds of America…

Kampgrounds of America’s popular Come Camp and Care With Us Weekend will be held the weekend of May 9-10, 2008. Campers staying as paid guests on Friday, May 9, at participating KOAs will receive a free night of camping at that campground on Saturday, May 10.

Since 2004, KOA has offered campers throughout North America a free night of camping each May at participating KOA campgrounds. In 2007, the event was expanded to a weekend event, offering a free Saturday of camping for those who stay as paid guests at participating campgrounds on Friday.

The event is intended to expose more people to the joys of camping by offering them a free night, as well as to encourage campers to both begin camping earlier in the spring season, and to consider KOA campgrounds close to home. Expanding to a weekend event allows KOA campground owners to plan more fun activities for campers to enjoy.

For 2008, the event will again serve as a major fundraiser for KOA Care Camps for children with cancer. The 35 camps, located throughout North America, offer children with cancer and their siblings a chance to experience summer camp in a safe environment while continuing with their medically supervised treatments.

“Come Camp and Care With Us Weekend has grown to become one of the highlights of our camping year,” said KOA President and Chief Operating Officer Shane Ott. “Pairing it with a great charity like KOA Care Camps for children with cancer just seemed natural, because we knew our campers would love to help these special kids experience great camping, too.”

In 2007, camper donations helped raise more than $225,000 for KOA Care Camps during the Come Camp and Care With Us Weekend event.
Source: Kampgrounds of America

Affinity Group and Digital Rez team up to provide "Campground Operating System"

Affinity Group, Inc., a leading industry source for RV and outdoor enthusiasts, recently announced it has formed a strategic alliance with Digital Rez International Inc., the world’s leading provider of campground and RV park management and reservation software.

The two companies are extending AGI’s RVTripsetter brand to the 3000 camping resorts that DRI currently serves in this worldwide market space. AGI will provide a total “Campground Operating System” coupling the internet to resorts’ front desk management systems while providing easy access to AGI’s extensive camping member and subscriber base.

Digital Rez will be re-branding its mainstream camping software systems over to the RVTripsetter brand and releasing the RVTripsetter product to all of its individual RV and camping resorts in the first quarter of 2008. In addition they will be gearing their support and development staff to provide additional innovations to its online reservation systems, property management networks and credit card processing services for resort operations worldwide.

Source: DigitalRez.com

Strong "loonie" has Canadian RVers heading for Florida

RV driving “snowbirds” are flocking to Florida, seeking refuge from winter weather.

HeraldTribune.com reports more of those RVs arriving in Florida are sporting the Canadian flag.

The Canadian Dollar (nickednamed the “Loonie”) has increased in value, giving RVers from up north more for their money.

Florida RV parks are seeing a boom from their Canadian vistors, who are staying longer and spending more money thanks to their new purchasing power.

Source: HeraldTribune.com