Top-ranking officials with Billings-based Kampgrounds of America said at a Thursday night company picnic that the business is performing well, even through recent tough economic times. Oscar Tang, chairman of the holding company that owns KOA, said the company was hit hard at
the beginning of the recession but made a quick recovery.
September. But in 2009, when the economy was at its worst, we were strong.”
“We’ve done quite well in a very difficult economy,” he said. “It hit us hard in 2008 because of the price of gas, not only the price but how it rose to $4 a gallon so quickly. That was during the height of our season, in August and
KOA runs nearly 500 franchise campsites in North America, including 26 it owns. It was founded in Billings in 1962 along the banks of the Yellowstone River. Continued Page 2