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California Camping Adventures at the State Fair - 2010 Report

5000 scratchers later, 6000 camping guides distributed and 10 winners ... the California Camping Adventures concludes with success!

Pictured center are winners Mike & Gary Spiller of Tehachapi holding the keys to their new trailer. To Gary’s left is President of CrossRoads RV, Mark Lucas and General Sales Manager of Happy Daze RV, Ronnie Raddigan.

Kids tossed balloons, families challenged each other to ladder ball games, and friends raced to fill gallon jugs with water…..all games to be played while camping. In the meantime, fairgoers swarmed through the Slingshot RV donated by CrossRoads RV & Happy Daze RV Sales.

Visitors to the display shared their most memorable camping experiences or talked about their upcoming trips. Many people asked for resources on camping information. Passersby snapped their heads as they caught a view of the racks of camping guides and turned around to pick one up.

Park owners,

Bill & Karann Milligan of Rancho Los Coches RV Park, Dana & Brian Busch of Canyon RV Park, Aaron Funk of Klamath RV Park & and Esther and Janine Osborne of Marble Quarry RV Park worked tirelessly throughout the day sharing their passion about camping. Others came for a day: James Urquhart, Larayne Jeffries from Angles Camp RV & Camping Resort, Meaghan & Rebecca Bertram of The Vineyard RV Park, Liz Johnson & her managers from Kit Fox RV Park. Colleagues shared stories about their parks and operations with each other and created lasting friendships.

Camper Rick was in his element running the games, giving away free camping certificates (the most popular prizes) sharing the value of camping and making family memories.

Did we encourage Californians to camp? Did we get kids excited and asking their parents to take them camping? Did we remind families about the benefits of a camping vacation? You bet we did….in spades!

For more pictures visit our Facebook page, California Camping!

Kathy Borchard & family of Woodland winning $1000 cash.

Special thanks go to the following:

These people and businesses believed in our vision to promote camping!

• First & foremost – Mark Lucas & CrossRoads RV and Ronnie Raddigan of Happy Daze RV Sales!
• Joe Laing of El Monte RV Vacations for knowing the importance of camping in California!
• To Lowes Building Supply in Roseville, CA and John’s Auto Care in Roseville, CA
• To our member partners:
  • Auburn Gold Country RV Park, Auburn
  • Sacramento Shade RV Park, Sacramento
  • Fort Bragg Leisure Time RV Park,
    Fort Bragg
  • Canyon RV Park, Anaheim
  • Mountain Gate RV Park, Redding
  • The Springs at Borrego, Borrego Springs
  • Angel's Camp RV & Camp Resort, Angels Camp
  • Marble Quarry RV Park
  • American's Wild Rivers Coast & Kamp Klamath RV Park & Campground
  • Kit Fox RV Park
  • Vineyard RV Park
  • Rancho Los Coches RV Park, San Diego
  • Wishon Village, Shaver Lake

Diana Legro and her family were thrilled to win a one week El Monte Rental Vacation.

Here what one of our finalists said ….. And they didn’t even win the grand prize!

Hi Camper Rick,

 

We just wanted to thank you again for the opportunity to win the trailer at the State Fair . . . how exciting it was to be on stage with the other finalists. We have never been so close to winning a big prize as we were last week! The months of anticipation and dreaming of winning was fun! We are looking forward to using our camping weekends we won in the future; all three locations are places we have never been. We love your guide and website; we look for parks that give out scratchers and have been staying with them every chance we get. It would be nice if more of your parks participated. We can hardly wait to see what parks are participating for 2011. When does the new guide come out?

 

It was nice to meet you and we look forward to entering more contests with Camp-California in 2011.

 

Jim and Sally Shepherd