November 1, 2010 -- The Board and members of the Virginia Campground voted to accept individual Virginia State Parks as full members of VCA and ARVC. Meeting at the 2010 Annual Fall Convention & Trade Show, the members decided that the association would no longer accept advertising in the VA Campground
Directory from nonmembers and therefore the state parks could join the association as regular members and be accorded all of the rights, privileges and benefits of membership including listings in the directory and advertising. In recent years, the Virginia State Parks department purchased a full page ad listing all of
the state parks with campground accommodations and also had icons on the state map in the directory denoting their locations. The VCA board and members at the meeting felt that state parks are marketing their facilities in the same manner as the private sector and the Continued Page 2