RV Camper Show In Town

PENNSAUKEN, NJ – Visitors to the 9th Annual South Jersey RV & Camping Show, which will run from February 1 through February 3 at the South Jersey Expo Center, will see how RVs and campgrounds reflect the needs of an increasingly younger, family-oriented RVing public.

Campground owners from Virginia to Upstate New York and New England will be on hand to demonstrate how modern campgrounds fit the younger families’ lifestyle. Here new RVers and campers can appreciate what’s drawing their generation.

Campgrounds have had to keep pace with the development of the RV, said Jay Otto, who serves with his wife, Marjorie, as executive directors of the NJ Campground Association. Most campgrounds now have full water, sewer and electric hookups. Many offer cable television hookups and some are getting into modem hookups.

“The attraction is the opportunity for families to do things together. That’s a big part of it,” Otto said. “Parents are close to their children but children have plenty of room in a safe and secure environment. From Maryland to New England, there are about 1,000 campgrounds and throughout the US there are approximately 10,000.”

The NJ Campground Association will be giving out free copies of its 72-page, full-color booklet on the state’s campgrounds at the Trailer & Camping Show and will have brochures for most of the campgrounds at its booth.

Entertaining also has become a big part of modern campground life. From storytelling to Irish festivals, and from miniature golf to softball fields, campers today have no shortage of things to do.

You can visit the Beachcomber Camping Resort and its sister campground, Holly Shores Travel Park, both in Cape May, from April 12 to Oct. 31 and pretty much always find some activity underway, said Allison Stewart, director of marketing Beachcomber.

“Generally campgrounds in our area offer a lot for your money. We have extensive children activities, pools, and at Beachcomber there are two lakes for fishing. Holly Shores has a hot tub and tennis courts,” Stewart said. “And the ocean beaches are less than five miles away.”

From spring through fall the two campgrounds also coordinate activities with local events like the Irish Festival or Wildwood’s annual antique car weekend. “We have a Shrimp Festival here every year and a Halloween Festival with haunted hayrides and trick or treating,” she said.

Beachcomber has about 750 sites and Holly Shores offers another 350. Nightly rates start at $32 for high summer and at $20 in the off-season, but packages starting as low as $17 per night are available. The family-owned campgrounds will raffle a free week of camping during the show.

The 9th Annual South Jersey RV & Camping Show will be open on Fri., Feb. 1, from 1:00-to-9:30 pm, on Sat., Feb. 2, from 10:00 am to 9:30 pm; and Sun., Feb. 3, from 10:00 am to 6 pm.

The show is produced by McLaughlin Associates Corp., a nationally recognized producer of high-quality business-to-consumer trade shows in a variety of industries and markets since 1968. The Spring Lake, NJ-based family-owned company produces 16 recreational vehicle, boat, home & garden and outdoor sports shows a year throughout Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wisconsin and is a source of market research for the recreational vehicle, boating and home improvement industries.

For additional information about the show, please contact McLaughlin Associates at (800) 332-3976.

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Author: South Jersey Expo Ctr